AirDrop Alternatives

AirDrop is described as 'With AirDrop, you can wirelessly send documents, photos, videos, websites, map locations, and more to a nearby iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac' and is an app in the file sharing category. There are more than 100 alternatives to AirDrop for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Web-based, Mac and Linux apps. The best AirDrop alternative is LocalSend, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AirDrop are Syncthing, KDE Connect, OnionShare and Send.

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  1. Zapya icon
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    Zaypa is a cross-platform transferring and sharing!

    Using Zaypa will allow you to transfer files from Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Tizen, PC, and Mac computers in an instant. Zapya is super easy to use and supports multiple languages! File sharing has never been simpler.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
  2. D-LAN icon
     9 likes

    A free LAN file sharing software. The goal is to easily exchange a large amount of data in a local area network environment like a LAN-Party. After you launched D-LAN, you will see all other people and their sharing automatically without special configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. StormGB.com icon
     3 likes

    StormGB is a secure file transfer service up to 50GB. With password protection, file destruction, and encrypted transfers, your files are kept safe and private. No registration required, and storage time of up to 90 days for free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. SpaceDrop icon
     1 like

    Sometimes sending a simple file from one device to another can be frustrating, especially devices between with different OS or between different devices, like phone to pc or mac to windows. You need to have same app on both devices or find a cloud drive to upload first and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. ScanTransfer icon
     1 like

    ScanTransfer is a free Windows desktop software program which enables you to transfer photos and videos from your smart phone to your computer or laptop.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. 0up icon
     2 likes

    0up is a zero-knowledge, open-source, encrypted file sharing service. Files are encrypted browser-side before being uploaded. A shareable link contains the decryption key and is never sent to the server - keeping shared files secure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. new.space icon
     1 like

    new.space is the easiest, fastest way to securely share links, notes, and files, get feedback, and plan what’s next. Use a single Space—with everything side-by-side—to tame the chaos of tabs, docs, videos, and files spread across too many apps and services.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
     
  8. Blindsend icon
     1 like

    Blindsend is an open source tool for private, end-to-end encrypted file exchange. It supports two use cases - sharing files and requesting files. Files uploaded to blindsend are encrypted using an end-to-end encrypted protocol, meaning neither blindsend nor any third party can...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. WiFi File Explorer allows you to browse, download and stream files that are on your phone, using a web browser via a WiFi connection. No more taking your phone apart to get the SD card out to access your camera pics ;)

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. DropCopy icon
     5 likes

    Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. weborf icon
     4 likes

    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Giver icon
     3 likes

    Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Other people running Giver on your network are automatically discovered and you can send files to them by simply dragging the files to their photo or icon shown in Giver.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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