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Google's nearby share is quite fast and easy to use and available for mobile and desktop.

https://www.android.com/better-together/nearby-share-app/



And I reverse engineered enough of its protocol and made an unofficial macOS app: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop


There's also QNearbyShare [0], a CLI implementation for Linux, which sadly can't send to Android yet, but receiving works just fine

[0]: https://github.com/vicr123/QNearbyShare


I can advocate for Trebleshot which is FOSS and available from F-Droid[0] for Mobile and Github[1] for Desktop

0: https://trebleshot.monora.org/ 1: https://github.com/trebleshot


> Still in alpha state and for this reason, nearly everything is subject to change and probably broken.

> This repository has been archived by the owner on Sep 4, 2021. It is now read-only.

Don't think this project is active anymore, and I cannot find any download links for desktop.


LocalShare seems to be available on many more platforms




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