I found LocalSend to be significantly more reliable than Snapdrop. Also it doesn't require hosting.
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But can you use it to send to a device where you can't install stuff?
Where would that be?
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.
I'll try. Snapdrop is almost good
I prefer Sharedrop it allows transfer between networks and has a better up time
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.
Are you selfhosting it? Were you able to set it up to work even with devices on different networks with turn/coturn server?
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
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
thanks.
does it allow filesystem expose as well, or just sending files?
Just sending files