The invention discloses a method and a device for displaying a synchronous state, a terminal and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of computer and internet communication. The methodcomprises the following steps: monitoring a synchronization event to obtain a synchronization state of the synchronization event; establishing a synchronization state set of the synchronization eventaccording to the synchronization state; obtaining a first data item list to be displayed in response to an operation instruction of a user; obtaining a first synchronization state of each data item in the first data item list from the synchronization state set; obtaining a first synchronization state identifier corresponding to the first synchronization state; drawing a first display icon of eachdata item in the first data item list, wherein the first display icon comprises a first synchronous state identifier; and displaying the first display icon of each data item in the first data item list. According to the method, various plug-ins do not need to be installed by an administrator permission, entry into an operating system level for synchronous state display is avoided, resources of akey process are not occupied, and the performance and the stability of the operating system can be maintained.