Inspired by Apple’s Airdrop
For people not satisfied with the reliability:
Me too, at the beginning.
But I have never had a problem when it is Android to Android.
After tinkering for a long while I found out that:
The connection is much more reliable after allowing mDNS in my firewall settings.
I don’t know if this is related. If it is, I hope it was mentioned somewhere so users don’t get frustrated when the app doesn’t work.
In my OS, mDNS is blocked by default for public networks. (and every network is a public network by default.)
The firewall is preinstalled (firewalld); the silver lining is that I understand more about firewalld and appreciate its customizability.
Before this, I was only able to use ufw.
I currently use KDE Connect. Is it similar?
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
Oh, snapdrop is back? The site has been unreachable for years to me
It’s been so unreliable. I switched to PairDrop.net, a fork that works just as well and has better uptime.
I found LocalSend to be significantly more reliable than Snapdrop. Also it doesn’t require hosting.
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.
What is the filesize limit? Is it better than Mozilla’s list of Send instances or ToffeeShare?
