LocalSend: Share Files to Nearby Devices
I just found LocalSend app, this program can help you to send files between devices. Ex: from your laptop to your smartphone or vice-versa, or between your laptops and between your smartphones. If yItou familiar with AirDrop, yes LocalSend is the opensource alternative.
I just installed LocalSend in my Debian 13 laptop. It has .deb packages, so easy to install. If you are not Debian-based distro user don't worried, they provide some alternatives such as flatpack, nixpkgs, AUR, and snap packages. After install the .deb package of LocalSend, the UI of LocalSend is displayed below:
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LocalSend app in my Debian 13 |
The "Kind Orange" in LocalSend app that shown on picture above is something like the ID of my laptop. It will be used as the identity of the device. I need second device to test the file transfer, so I install LocalSend on my Android phone. You can find it on PlayStore. After installed on my Android phone, I got familiar with the UI, it share many similarities with the desktop version.
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LocalSend app on Android |
How to do the file transfer in LocalSend? Just stay here, I will share it for you soon...
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