PairDrop: Local/remote file sharing in your browser/mobile. Inspired by AirDrop. Fork & alternative of Snapdrop

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PairDrop

Local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's AirDrop.
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Features

PairDrop (<-DEMO) is a sublime alternative to AirDrop that works on all platforms.

Send images, documents or text via peer to peer connection to devices in the same local network/Wi-Fi or to paired devices. As it is web based, it runs on all devices.

You want to quickly send a file from your phone to your laptop?
You want to share photos in original quality with friends that use a mixture of Android and iOS?
You want to share private files peer to peer between Linux systems?
AirDrop is unreliable again?
Send it with PairDrop!

Developed based on Snapdrop

Differences to Snapdrop

Device Pairing / Internet Transfer

Pair devices via 6-digit code or QR-Code
Pair devices outside your local network or in complex network environment (public Wi-Fi, company network, Apple Private Relay, VPN etc.).
Connect to devices on your mobile hotspot.
Paired devices will always find each other via shared secrets even after reopening the browser or the Progressive Web App
You will always discover devices on your local network. Paired devices are shown additionally.
Paired devices outside your local network that are behind a NAT are connected automatically via the PairDrop TURN server.

Improved UI for sending/receiving files

Files are transferred only after a request is accepted first. On transfer completion files are downloaded automatically if possible.
Multiple files are downloaded as a ZIP file
On iOS and Android, in addition to downloading, files can be shared or saved to the gallery via the Share menu.
Multiple files are transferred at once with an overall progress indicator

Send Files or Text Directly From Share Menu, Context Menu or CLI

PairDrop is built with the following awesome technologies:

Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend
WebRTC / WebSockets
NodeJS backend
Progressive Web App
IndexedDB API
zip.js
cyrb53 super fast hash function

Have any questions? Read our FAQ.

You can host your own instance with Docker.

jdaviescoates

Thanks! I had made use of SnapDrop.net a few times (which was down the other day, but now appears to be back up) so good to have https://pairdrop.net/ on hand as an alternative.

Edit: Sounds like they've also made some great improvements too!

RazielKanos

oh yes....

NEED! NEED! NEED! NEED! NEED! NEED! NEED! NEED!

cortex

Is it available on the cloudron app store?

jdaviescoates

@cortex said in PairDrop: Local/remote file sharing in your browser/mobile. Inspired by AirDrop. Fork & alternative of Snapdrop: