Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser Cooked up by Alex Kern & Neeraj Baid while eating Sliver @ UC Berkeley.
Using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload step required by other web-based file sharing services. When senders initialize a transfer, they receive a “tempalink” they can distribute to recipients. Upon visiting this link, recipients’ browsers connect directly to the sender’s browser and may begin downloading the selected file. Because data is never stored in an intermediary server, the transfer is fast, private, and secure. (Your PC must be online while the recipient download the file(s), if you shutdown the PC or goes offline, the download also stops)
You can selfhost it or use the official instance
(Your PC must be online while the recipient download the file(s), if you shutdown the PC or goes offline, the download also stops)
…yeah?. crazy. What’ll they think of next?
I created my own similar tool: https://filepush.kevincox.ca/
It is optimized for the case where you commonly send files to the same devices. For example I have set up all of my devices as well as my partner’s phone and Steam Deck. Then I can just tap them and send the file with end-to-end encryption.
It is sort of cool that there is no backing server, just static files. All of the signalling goes over WebPush.
Why yet another alternative to magic wormhole? Instead that could get a better web interface.
To be fair, this one’s been around for a while and I believe it’s actually p2p, iirc. Wormhole stores your files on their servers for a little bit if they’re < 5 Gb.
Only somewhat related, but is there an easy tool for sending files from one device to another when on the same network? I imagine that scenario shouldn’t need some third party server to connect to but I’ve yet to find a tool like this.
KDE Connect should fit the bill; despite the name, you don’t need to be using KDE (or Linux even) since there are clients for every major OS, even mobile.
Among many other cool features, it lets you easily and simply just send a file from one device directly to another on your local network. I use it all the time to send photos from my phone to my desktop without plugging anything in, for example.
Much simpler and more direct than the other suggestions: LocalSend.
Also fully open source, local only, cross platform. Only works in the same network, obviously. That’s the point.
