NearDrop VS Soduto

> I wish quick share (né nearby share) was available on linux (even if via chrome).

I made NearDrop, which is a macOS implementation of Nearby Share: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

And of course, someone tried to reimplement it for other OSes: https://github.com/PlutoHDDev/CrossDrop

2. NearDrop

> So what happens is that I gravitate to other ecosystems.

I use a Mac but an Android phone. Android because I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy. Mac because modern Windows is so contemptuous towards its users, and desktop Linux falls apart unless you know the intricacies of its internals.

Anyway, transferring files between the two was a pain in the butt that eventually grew so immense I reverse engineered Google's Nearby Share and made this: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

Though yes, I'm not North American so iMessage is just a non-issue to me. I don't know anyone who uses it. Anyone hardly uses SMS for actual messaging between people, everyone's SMS inbox is 95% OTP codes and various other automatic notifications. Literally everyone who I communicate with is reachable through Telegram.

Nearby Share isn't locked down and, in fact, works just fine with zero Google involvement. Google only needs to be involved for limited device visibility and all the phone number stuff that entails.

Here's the protocol docs I wrote: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md

I usually use NearDrop which is compatible with nearby sharing. https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

I don't necessarily back up my android to my Mac. I keep both environments separate, however, you can try this or this looks interesting but seems like some elbow grease involved

I made one recently

Not officially but someone did make this

Thanks for sharing! Looks like there is now a more active fork at https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto

my Mac client recc: Soduto (https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto). Clipboard, notification, messages, file browsing/transfer, etc. all integrated very well

Soduto is great as for now, although it's not been updated in years so some features are broken. I do have a forked build of Soduto on my GitHub Repo which runs natively on Apple Silicon and I tried fixing all the deprecated and dead code. You can get the latest version of it from here.

Soduto (awesome app for getting ecosystem features between your android and mac/the official version is outdated so, you can try the forked version from my GitHub Repository)