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Synchronization, the temporal coordination of coupled oscillators, allowsfireflies to flash in unison, neurons to fire collectively and human crowds tofall in step on the London Millenium bridge. Here, we interpret active (orself-propelled) chiral microswimmers with a distribution of intrinsicfrequencies as motile oscillators and show that they can synchronize over verylarge distances, even for local coupling in 2D. This opposes to canonicalnon-active oscillators on static or time-dependent networks, leading tosynchronized domains only. A consequence of this activity-inducedsynchronization is the emergence of a `mutual flocking phase', where particlesof opposite chirality cooperate to form superimposed flocks moving at arelative angle to each other, providing a chiral active matter analogue to thecelebrated Toner-Tu phase. The underlying mechanism employs a positive feedbackloop involving the two-way coupling between oscillators' phase andself-propulsion, and could be exploited as a design principle for syntheticactive materials and chiral self-sorting techniques

Activity induced synchronization: From Mutual Flocking to Chiral Self-Sorting