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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 ‼️ 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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