Inspired by Apple’s Airdrop

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I found LocalSend to be significantly more reliable than Snapdrop. Also it doesn’t require hosting.

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Well, yes, I did just that. Not sure why that would be an issue.

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But can you use it to send to a device where you can’t install stuff?

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Where would that be?

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If you want to send something to a computer in school or a work PC or something without admin rights.

snapdrop / sharedrop work in browser, without any installation, and that’s the point. As much as I hate web apps, sometimes they are your only option.

I agree that localsend is great when you need to exchange files between your devices often, but when you quickly need to send a file to someone’s PC without admin rights, snapdrop and sharedrop are a faster way to achieve that.

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I’ll try. Snapdrop is almost good

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It’s easier to get someone to visit a website than to make them download an app

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I prefer Sharedrop it allows transfer between networks and has a better up time

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Also PairDrop. I tested a few of these sharing apps and found this one to be slightly better for reasons that I can no longer remember.

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Are you selfhosting it? Were you able to set it up to work even with devices on different networks with turn/coturn server?

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Not self hosting - just using the web app.

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Oh, snapdrop is back? The site has been unreachable for years to me

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It’s been so unreliable. I switched to PairDrop.net, a fork that works just as well and has better uptime.

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I currently use KDE Connect. Is it similar?

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If I don’t remember wrong, KDE Connect needs to be installed on both the devices you need to transfer file/text to/from, with Snapdrop (and PairDrop) you just need to selfhost it (or use the official website) without the need to install anything and they *can *work even when sender and receiver are on different network

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thanks.

does it allow filesystem expose as well, or just sending files?

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Just sending files

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What is the filesize limit? Is it better than Mozilla’s list of Send instances or ToffeeShare?

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i think there is no limit (at least on the software side), because it’s local network only, so nothing is uploaded to a server but directly to the recipient. i could be wrong though.

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There is no limit implemented, but it constantly failed to get an 8gb file to be transferred between two VMs. LocalSend is more reliable in my case.

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