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Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

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Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

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Post by Hnaomyiph »

If you need to send larger files via link, another hn user created https://www.relaysecret.com/ I use the tunnel service for the most part at https://www.relaysecret.com/tunnel It’s open source and you can host your own instance of it! https://github.com/santrancisco/relaysecret When Firefox send shut down I was looking for a good alternative and never really found sharedrop fit my needs.

Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

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Post by chasil »

Nitroshare is OK. Local network only. Encryption and more prompting would be nice. Automatic startup at boot is a bad idea.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.nitroshare.android/

For third-party transfers:

https://www.swisstransfer.com/ [up to 50mb]

https://filetransfer.io/ [much bigger limit]

Re: Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop

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Post by cmiller1 »

All of these "alternatives to airdop" don't seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn't just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren't connected to an existing network of that speed.
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