File transfer and sharing tools in 2026

Commercial file transfer and sharing tools

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   WeTransfer Bending Spoons

   The simple, quick and secure way to send your files around the world without an account. Share your files, photos, and videos today for free.

   Complete system Production-ready You occasionally need to send a large file to someone outside your organisation without setting up shared storage.

   3.8k readers a month Since 2009 Commercial

Open-source file transfer and sharing tools

Complete systems you can adopt 8

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   LocalSend localsend

   An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

   Complete system Production-ready You need AirDrop-style transfers between mixed Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS devices on the same network.

   ★ 97k Apache-2.0 Dart Active, pushed today
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   Copyparty 9001

   Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file

   Complete system Production-ready You want to turn a NAS, PC or Raspberry Pi into a browser-accessible file drop and share point in minutes.

   ★ 47k MIT Python Active, pushed 13 days ago
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   ownCloud Core owncloud

   :cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)

   Complete system Production-ready You already run ownCloud Classic and need to keep it patched; new deployments should look at ownCloud Infinite Scale or Nextcloud instead.

   ★ 8.8k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed today
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   SparkleShare hbons

   Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows

   Complete system Usable Rarely now; consider Syncthing or Nextcloud instead.

   ★ 5k GPL-3.0 C# Active, pushed 2 months ago
5. 5
   Zrok openziti

   Secure internet sharing made simple.

   Complete system Production-ready You need to expose a local service or folder to collaborators and want a self-hostable ngrok-style option built on OpenZiti.

   ★ 4.8k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 3 days ago
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   Syncthing macOS syncthing

   Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

   Complete system Production-ready You use Syncthing on a Mac and want it to behave like a native app rather than a background command-line service.

   ★ 4k MIT Objective-C Active, pushed 12 days ago
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   HFS rejetto

   HFS is a web file server for your computer. Share folders or even a single file thanks to the virtual file system.

   Complete system Production-ready You want to share files straight off a PC or home server through a browser without uploading them to a cloud service.

   ★ 4k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday
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   Zipline diced

   A ShareX/file upload server that is easy to use, packed with features, and with an easy setup!

   Complete system Production-ready You take lots of screenshots or share files from ShareX or Flameshot and want links served from your own domain.

   ★ 3.5k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today

Developer tools 2

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   Croc schollz

   Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

   Developer tool Production-ready You regularly move files between machines across networks and are comfortable in a terminal.

   ★ 41k MIT Go Active, pushed today
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   Dufs sigoden

   A file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav...

   Developer tool Production-ready You need a quick, scriptable file server for a folder on a LAN, a VPS or a container.

   ★ 11k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed 4 days ago

All 30 open-source file transfer projects

Compared head to head

Open-source licenses

• Permissive: 17. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
• Strong copyleft: 9. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
• Network copyleft: 4. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.

Languages

TypeScript 5, JavaScript 5, Go 4, Rust 3, PHP 3, Python 2, C# 2, Dart 1, Objective-C 1, Ruby 1, Shell 1, Svelte 1 and Elm 1.