PlainDrop

Local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
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Features

PlainDrop is a sublime alternative to AirDrop that works on all platforms.

Send images, documents or text via peer to peer connection to devices in the same local network/Wi-Fi or to paired devices. As it is web based, it runs on all devices.

You want to quickly send a file from your phone to your laptop?
You want to share photos in original quality with friends that use a mixture of Android and iOS?
You want to share private files peer to peer between Linux systems?
AirDrop is unreliable again?
Send it with PlainDrop!

Developed based on Snapdrop

Differences to Snapdrop

Device Pairing

• Pair devices via 6-digit code or QR-Code
• Pair devices outside your local network or in complex network environment (public Wi-Fi, company network, Apple Private Relay, VPN etc.).
• Connect to devices on your mobile hotspot.
• Paired devices will always find each other via shared secrets even after reopening the browser or the Progressive Web App
• You will always discover devices on your local network. Paired devices are shown additionally.
• Paired devices outside your local network that are behind a NAT are connected automatically via Open Relay: Free WebRTC TURN Server

Improved UI for sending/receiving files

• Files are transferred only after a request is accepted first. On transfer completion they are downloaded automatically if possible.
• Multiple files are downloaded as ZIP file
• On iOS and Android the devices share menu is opened instead of downloading the files
• Multiple files are transferred at once with an overall progress indicator

Share Files Directly From Share / Context Menu

• Share files directly from context menu on Windows
• Share directly from share menu on iOS
• Share directly from share menu on Android

Other changes

• Paste Mode
• Prevent devices from sleeping on file transfer
• Warn user before PlainDrop is closed on file transfer
• Open PlainDrop on multiple tabs simultaneously (Thanks @willstott101)
• Video and Audio preview (Thanks @victorwads)
• Node-only implementation (Thanks @Bellisario)
• Automatic restart on error (Thanks @KaKi87)
• Lots of stability fixes (Thanks @MWY001 @skiby7 and @willstott101)
• To host PlainDrop on your local network (e.g. on Raspberry Pi): All peers connected with private IPs are discoverable by each other

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PlainDrop is built with the following awesome technologies:

• Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend
• WebRTC / WebSockets
• NodeJS backend
• Progressive Web App
• IndexedDB API
• zip.js

Have any questions? Read our FAQ.

You can host your own instance with Docker.

Support the Community

PlainDrop is free and always will be. Still, we have to pay for the domain.

To contribute and support me:

Thanks a lot for supporting free and open software!

To support the original Snapdrop and its creator go to his GitHub page.

How to contribute

Feel free to open an issue or a pull request but follow Contributing Guidelines.