Nav Toor@heynavtoor
You took a 4K video on your iPhone. You want it on your Windows laptop.
What are your options?
Email it to yourself. Compressed and butchered.
Upload it to Google Drive. Wait 10 minutes. Download. Wait 10 minutes again.
WhatsApp. Crushed to 480p garbage.
WeTransfer Pro. $144 a year to send files.
Send Anywhere. $5.99 a month and capped at 20GB.
AirDrop only works between Apple devices. Quick Share refuses to play with iPhones half the time. SHAREit got banned in India in 2020 for spying on users.
In 2026, sending a file to the person sitting next to you still requires the internet, a cloud server, and a corporate middleman.
Someone built a tool that sends files directly from any device to any device. No internet. No cloud. No account. No cable.
It is called LocalSend. 78,000+ stars on GitHub. 8 million+ downloads worldwide.
Open the app on both devices. They find each other automatically. Tap send. Done. The file goes peer to peer over your Wi-Fi. Nothing leaves your network.
Here's what it does:
→ iPhone to Android. Mac to Windows. Linux to everything. Any direction.
→ Send any file. No size limit. No 2GB WeTransfer ceiling.
→ Send entire folders, clipboard text, multiple files to multiple devices.
→ End-to-end TLS encryption. Certificates generated on the fly on each device.
→ No compression. No quality loss. The original file, as-is.
→ No account. No login. No email. No phone number.
→ Auto-discovery. QR code pairing if you want it.
→ Works on airplane mode if both devices are on the same Wi-Fi.
Here's the wildest part:
AirDrop only works between Apple devices. A $999 iPhone talking to a $999 MacBook. Same company. Same walled garden.
Quick Share only works between Android and Chrome OS. Same company. Same walled garden.
Apple and Google built these walls on purpose. They want you locked in. They want you to buy their hardware because "it works together." They want switching to feel impossible.
LocalSend tears down every wall. iPhone to Android. Mac to Windows. Linux to iPad. Any device to any device. In seconds.
LocalSend costs $0. Forever. No premium tier. No ads. No tracking. No file count limit.
On the App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store, Flathub, Homebrew, F-Droid.
78,000+ stars. 4,200+ forks. Apache-2.0 license. Built in Dart and Flutter. Active since December 2022.
Your files. Your devices. No walls.
100% Open Source.
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