Reep vs Firefox Send

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Firefox Send

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File Sharing and Synchronization Distributed filesystems Peer-to-peer filesharing

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Reep		Firefox Send
	Project
1	Mentions	11
590	Stars	13,151
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.2
about 7 years ago	Latest Commit	-
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
-	License	-

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.

Reep

Posts with mentions or reviews of Reep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-26.

CSS Deep
2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021

KodeKraftwerk/reepio - In-browser peer-to-peer file transfer and streaming made easy

Firefox Send

Posts with mentions or reviews of Firefox Send. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

How to send password securely?
21 projects | /r/sysadmin | 8 Jan 2023

Anyone can host a Send server (usually https://github.com/timvisee/send which is a continuation of https://github.com/mozilla/send).
Peer to peer method for file transfers and messaging
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 18 Dec 2022

Send is a fork of Firefox Send that offers E2EE. I haven't personally used it myself, but it seems promising.
Software to send files and messages between PCs securely
1 project | /r/privacy | 16 Sep 2022

Firefox Send https://github.com/mozilla/send
server side AES encryption
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Jun 2022
Firefox Relay
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
Firefox send at send.fdab.se
1 project | /r/firefox | 14 Aug 2021

Is the instance of send at send.fdab.se an official Firefox instance? I thought Mozilla discontinued the project and the address doesn't look official, yet the website claims to be Firefox Send.
How expensive do you think it may be for a simple individual to host a Tresorit alternative?
4 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 5 Aug 2021

Firefox Send
DoD Safe Alternative for Non DoD Usage
2 projects | /r/homelab | 23 Jul 2021
Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021
Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
5 projects | /r/firefox | 23 Mar 2021

Yes, Mozilla's Send is fully open source. I just forked it and made minor changes to keep it alive.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Reep and Firefox Send you can also consider the following projects:

FilePizza - :pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

instant.io - 🚀 Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)

FileTea - Web-based anonymous file-sharing service

peerflix-server - Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui.

rartracker - Complete private bittorrent tracker written in PHP and AngularJS

qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

cloud-torrent - ☁️ Cloud Torrent: a self-hosted remote torrent client

Magnetico - Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.