I found LocalSend to be significantly more reliable than Snapdrop. Also it doesn’t require hosting.
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.
Oh, snapdrop is back? The site has been unreachable for years to me
It’s been so unreliable. I switched to PairDrop.net, a fork that works just as well and has better uptime.
I currently use KDE Connect. Is it similar?
What is the filesize limit? Is it better than Mozilla’s list of Send instances or ToffeeShare?
There is no limit implemented, but it constantly failed to get an 8gb file to be transferred between two VMs. LocalSend is more reliable in my case.
i think there is no limit (at least on the software side), because it’s local network only, so nothing is uploaded to a server but directly to the recipient. i could be wrong though.