PairDrop vs shareviahttp

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PairDrop		shareviahttp
	Project
25	Mentions	3
2,362	Stars	167
-	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	6.3
3 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PairDrop

Posts with mentions or reviews of PairDrop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

PairDrop – Local file sharing in the browser
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
PairDrop: Local File Sharing in the Browser
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
PairDrop: Local file sharing in the browser. Inspired by Apple's AirDrop
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2024
YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2024

Been running a selfhosted PairDrop instance for about a year now and it's amazingly useful. No apps to install, just web based "AirDrop" that works across macOS, Windows, iOS, Linux...
https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023

It's worth quoting here fellow commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940411:
https://pairdrop.net/ is a fork of SnapDrop with a more responsive maintainer (apparently: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/discussions/115)
LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023

It's using webrtc for a p2p connection, see https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop/blob/master/docs/...
Alternatives to Snapdrop
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jun 2023

Pairdrop
LocalSend | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Offline File sharing
2 projects | /r/fossdroid | 3 May 2023
NearDrop: Airdrop photos from Android phone to Mac!
3 projects | /r/macapps | 19 Apr 2023

shareviahttp

Posts with mentions or reviews of shareviahttp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.

The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024

I use https://github.com/marcosdiez/shareviahttp all the time, to share with other phones or with my ereader or PC.
Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
Briar 1.4 – offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2021

>https://github.com/marcosdiez/shareviahttp
adds a share option (Android) that bundles everything into a zip, starts an http server, and creates a QR code (to http://my-ip-address/).
Not out of the box, and susceptible to wifi blocking p2p, but otherwise very usable.
And where you have python installed you can do

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PairDrop and shareviahttp you can also consider the following projects:

snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

QNearbyShare - Nearby Share implementation for Linux

localsend - An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

qrsend - ⌨ Send files over WIFI by scanning QR code in terminal

hugo-quick-start - Hugo Quick Start on Render

uploadserver - Simple Rust file server which lets you upload, share, and download files from a web browser. Ready-to-run binaries for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Free/Open-Source alternative to AirDrop/Dropbox for transferring files on your local network without having to install anything. A more sophisticated version of `python3 -m http.server 8000`.

NearDrop - An unofficial Google Nearby Share app for macOS

qr-filetransfer - Transfer files over WiFi between your computer and your smartphone from the terminal

sharedrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

destiny - Destiny – Cross-platform Magic Wormhole graphical client

winpinator - An unofficial port of Linux Mint's Warpinator for Windows