If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.
I kid you not, I was actually looking for a solution like that yesterday! hopefully it’ll handle a few tens of gigabytes between my two Linux laptops.
This is one file at a time. It’s designed more for very quick “Oops I need that photo” sort of stuff.
What you want to do is better served by NFS, SMB or SFTP.
Synced many terabytes, over WiFi, Ethernet and the Internet with Syncthing. It works for all use cases, large and small.
Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?
I’d use pairdrop over this so I don’t need to install it on all my devices.
I stopped using pairdrop/snapdrop because it doesn’t work on native wayland chrome/chromium due to webrtc.
I have been using it for the last ~6 months and found it to be very useful and easy to use. Transferring stuff between Android phones, Windows 10 & 11 PCs and a Steam Deck (i.e. Linux PC) has been a breeze.
Seem to be quite a few of these types of apps, I’ve been using landrop recently, how does this one compare?
I have not used Landrop but looking at it from the outside, Landrop is version 0.4 and has received no development for 3 years now. LocalSend is past 1.0 and still in active development. I’d rather use LocalSend then instead of something abandoned before it was deemed complete.
I like LocalSend, much easier than KDEConnect, and also on F-Droid. But I have to confess that I usually send photos via Signal on mobile to myself and then open Signal app on the desktop to download it.
