List of P2P file sharing tools

list_of_p2p_file_sharing.md

Browser Based

1. Web Wormhole https://webwormhole.io/ https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole
2. ToffeeShare https://toffeeshare.com/
3. FilePizza https://file.pizza/
4. ShareDrop sharedrop.io https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop (SOLD, not recommended, use one of the forks)
   1. A clone SnapDrop snapdrop.net https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop (SOLD, not recommended, use one of the forks)
      1. A fork PairDrop https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop
5. Instant.io https://instant.io/
6. FileTC https://file.tc/
7. Send Anywhere https://send-anywhere.com/
8. Just Beaam it https://www.justbeamit.com/
9. Peermesh https://perguth.de/peermesh https://github.com/perguth/peermesh
10. drop.lol https://drop.lol/ https://github.com/mat-sz/filedrop
11. rDrop https://rdrop.link/
12. Blaze https://blaze.vercel.app/ https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze
13. SendFiles https://sendfiles.dev/ https://github.com/jchorl/sendfiles
14. Katana https://sekky61.github.io/Katana/ https://github.com/Sekky61/Katana
15. FileLove https://file.love/ https://github.com/midzer/filelove
16. Filegogo https://send.22333.fun/ https://github.com/a-wing/filegogo
17. Peertransfer https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer https://perguth.de/peertransfer/
18. Yt2fb.in https://yt2fb.in/file-transfer/
19. P2P File Transfer https://chidokun.github.io/p2p-file-transfer/ https://github.com/chidokun/p2p-file-transfer
20. P2P File Transfer https://webbrowsertools.com/p2p-file-transfer/ https://github.com/leocompson/p2p-file-transfer
21. NeighborHoodShare https://neighbor-share.vercel.app/ https://github.com/dikshantrajput/neighborHoodShare
22. Vegh https://vegh.netlify.app/ https://github.com/veghfile

TODO

• Test which of these tools can send very large (10GB+) files without freezing/crashing the browser.

CLI

1. croc https://github.com/schollz/croc
2. p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy
3. pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp
4. wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
5. Wush https://github.com/coder/wush

(Updated the list based on comments. Only keeping p2p tools)

• https://payload.app
• PairDrop - fork of SnapDrop with active development and more features: http://pairdrop.net/ (selfhostable: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop)
• LocalSend: https://github.com/localsend/localsend
• FlyingCarpet: direct transfer over local adhoc WIFI: https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet
• LANDrop: Drop any files to any devices on your LAN: https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop
• Magic Wormhole: simple file transfer from computer-to-computer over the net: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
• Croc: similar to magic wormhole: https://github.com/schollz/croc
• Wormhole: user-friendly in-browser based e2e encrypted file transfer: https://wormhole.app/
• https://send.vis.ee/

• https://gitlab.com/kevincox/filepush
• https://toffeeshare.com/

yt2fb appears to have a secret magnet downloader/video streamer built into the page (remove class="hidden" from the form).

@timespaced send.vis.ee does not appear to be p2p.

@SMUsamaShah fileai.com appears to be discontinued

More tools reported by ranger_danger at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902082

Here's some others I've found as well:
https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze
https://github.com/jchorl/sendfiles
https://github.com/veghfile
https://github.com/midzer/filelove
https://github.com/a-wing/filegogo
https://github.com/jeremyckahn/secure-file-transfer
https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer
https://github.com/perguth/peermesh
https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest
https://file.tc/
https://rdrop.link/
https://github.com/chidokun/p2p-file-transfer
https://github.com/leocompson/p2p-file-transfer
https://github.com/dikshantrajput/neighborHoodShare
https://github.com/Sekky61/Katana

@otonoton removed file ai. don't know what to make of yt2fb. probably using webtorrent to send files over and this form is a copy pasta.

What is your definition of p2p?

Does it require any internet access to work?

Does there need to be a DHT involved (so not WebTorrent)?

Are direct IP connections between both ends allowed? WebRTC for example can do both direct IP connections between endpoints or use a relay server (or a chain of other devices in combination with WebTorrent) in-between.

Are relay (TURN etc.) servers actually allowed?

Are centralized signaling (WebTorrent/STUN/https/carrier pigeon etc.) servers allowed?

Is any encryption required?

@otonoton p2p here is where file is transferred p2p instead of being fully/partially uploaded to a middle server first. To support that transfer/communication if some servers are involved (like your examples) that's OK.

Now that you ask, any other properties like if it can work without internet, does encryption, supports any file size, uses webtorrent etc can be added as a feature of an item in the list.

I have been researching some of these and my concern is that for the majority of people just wanting to transfer random files between friends (which I define as being behind symmetrical NAT on both sides), practically none of these solutions actually work at all. There would need to be something like a TURN server defined, which there are no reliable free ones, and these sites do not make it easy to supply your own. The majority of these p2p solutions use WebRTC in some way (that includes WebTorrent), which in most cases only have free public STUN servers defined, not TURN, which isn't enough.

A quick google turned this up https://www.metered.ca/tools/openrelay/ There might be some p2p tools out there that are using this.

Hey, I just found out about your list because sadly, sharedrop.io seems that was taken over by LimeWire, it looks incredibly suspicious now, they even removed an issue regarding this (it was https://github.com/ShareDropio/sharedrop/issues/180). Any particular one you recommend the most?

@etra0 I guess one of its forks should be used now.

welp, snapdrop got also acquired by LimeWire, what a disaster.

https://send-anywhere.com/ is the fastest for my testing so far... 300Mbps.
With or without a VPN tunnel too.

@etra0 shite.. we are left with https://pairdrop.net/ then :|

@etra0 @SMUsamaShah so pairdrop and sharedrop are gone.. what about quickdrop?

@sastromo no, pairdrop is still looking OK. No?

• https://github.com/holepunchto/pear
• https://keet.io/ (build on pear)
• And whatever else https://holepunch.to/ are working on

https://galene.org includes peer-to-peer file transfer. The web client is built-in, but there's also a command-line tool at https://github.com/jech/galene-file-transfer

What about LAN chat and file transfer tools like Feem (https://feem.io) ?

Feem also works with your remote devices when paired with Tailscale.

You can add my personal version: https://filepush.kevincox.ca/

It is direct peer-to-peer using WebRTC. It is different from the others as it is optimizes repeated sharing between your own devices. So you pair the devices once, then you can share with a single click.

It is open source: https://gitlab.com/kevincox/filepush

• todo: Update list from this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43342361 and new comments here

p2pcp https://github.com/gdlol/p2pcp, a fork of pcp with hole punching, a different security model, and various minor improvements.

Can any of these tools resume partial transfers? I'm trying to transfer large files over a not-100%-reliable network, and none of the ones I've tried so far could resume a failed connection. Some couldn't even detect that the transfer failed.

@pdewacht Hypercore and company offer a sparse mode.

@mixlette your comments seems like spam (or LLM generated). The thing you linked doesnt have anything to do with p2p file sharing.

@SMUsamaShah Hypercore (you might remember it for its dat or Beaker) days changed branding making it hard to keep up. For instance https://keet.io/ is another one of its incarnation. It's all p2p precursor from the ground up. English isn't my first language, but neither is binary :-)

@mixlette Apologies. I looked at Hypercore and the first thing it said was being about logging and nothing about file sharing over p2p.