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Written by David Smith on 2025-01-31 at 14:16

The recent work I've been doing has required a lot of sharing files between testing devices (and my Mac). AirDrop should be the ideal tool for this but I've recently found it to be unreliable.

Instead I've been using LocalSend which is an open-source AirDrop alternative and it's been working fantastically. The only real downside is that you have to open the app on both sides for the share to complete, but it has been 100% reliable so that’s a tradeoff I'll happily make.

https://localsend.org

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Written by Finn Voorhees on 2025-01-31 at 14:25

@_Davidsmith https://file.pizza is another great browser based option that’s been around for ~10 years

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Written by Regendans on 2025-01-31 at 16:16

@finnvoorhees @_Davidsmith FilePizza may look nice at first sight but compared to the amazing and simple LocalSend (which works inside a local network) it is overly complicated and has drawbacks. 1) FilePizza needs Internet access 2) FilePizza needs WebRTC to work so it will not work in some browsers 3) FilePizza has its limitations

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Written by Johannes Ebeling on 2025-01-31 at 14:26

@_Davidsmith I’ve installed Snapdrop on my raspberry pi which is also less convenient than AirDrop from a pure UX perspective, but because it is web-based I can share files between all kinds of devices, e.g. train ticket PDFs for work trips from my work machine to my iPhone.

https://snapdrop.net

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Written by Philip Theus (prev. Mueller) on 2025-01-31 at 14:38

@_Davidsmith I’ve also recently discovered localsend. It’s great to be able to “airdrop” to my Linux machine.

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Written by Josh Biggs on 2025-01-31 at 14:55

@_Davidsmith Local send is great. Used it a bunch when messing around with Linux.

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Written by Bruce on 2025-01-31 at 15:49

@_Davidsmith Thank you! I've been struggling to find a way to easily send screenshots from Android to Mac.

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Written by Adam on 2025-01-31 at 16:01

@_Davidsmith First time I opened this on my new #Fairphone it was bestowed the name "Handsome Potato".

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Written by Sören Gade on 2025-01-31 at 16:09

@_Davidsmith I recently discovered that AirDrop on one of my Macs was very unstable, both for receiving and sending data.

„killall AirDrop“ did the trick, as previous processes were still running and somehow preventing further sharing attempts to succeed. Whenever I have a problem now, I run the command and it works perfectly after every time.

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Written by Marcell Lévai on 2025-01-31 at 16:52

@_Davidsmith @gruber it’s my favorite tool for sharing files between all of my devices (iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, Linux)

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Written by ‼️ zei on 2025-01-31 at 17:14

@_Davidsmith does this also use point-to-point wifi like airdrop or does it require the devices to actually be on a network?

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Written by David Smith on 2025-01-31 at 17:20

@zei I believe they have to be on the same network, which works fine for my situation but I could see limiting its use compared to AirDrop.

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Written by Uhl Albert on 2025-01-31 at 17:23

@_Davidsmith AirDrop has been reliable for me lately, but they still haven’t fixed one annoyance: sending a screenshot directly from the Screenshot utility converts it to JPEG. Save it to Photos first, then AirDrop it and it'll remain PNG (but at the cost of extra steps).

Submitted as FB12847307…one of the rare feedbacks where the status fields changed indicating someone actually touched it!?

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Written by Sven on 2025-01-31 at 17:32

@_Davidsmith You might try Taildrop by @tailscale as well. https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop

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Written by Alex Mazanov on 2025-01-31 at 17:53

@_Davidsmith LocalSend is awesome!

Here is the same idea, but much better mac app in my experience - https://blip.net

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Written by Eric Peacock on 2025-01-31 at 17:53

@_Davidsmith Side note: I noticed that the localsend.org web page continuously sucks up over 100% of a CPU core when sitting open in a tab — at least in Safari.

Tab hoarders beware.

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