sendme
A command-line tool that sends files and folders directly between computers using iroh.
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About sendme
sendme copies files and directories from one computer to another over the internet with a direct peer-to-peer connection. It is built on iroh, which handles hole punching and NAT traversal and falls back to a relay when a direct connection cannot be made.
Transfers use the iroh-blobs protocol with BLAKE3-verified streaming, so interrupted downloads can resume. It started as an example application for iroh but works as a standalone tool for quick copy jobs between machines.
Strengths
- Works across NAT without port forwarding
- Verified transfers with resumable downloads
- Sends whole directories, not just single files
Limitations
- Command line only
- Started as an example app for the iroh library
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT or Apache 2.0 licences.
- License
- MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Developer
- n0 computer
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Quick direct file copies between two computers from the terminal
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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sendme as an alternative
Listings that name sendme as an alternative.
qrcp
A command-line tool that transfers files over Wi-Fi to a phone by scanning a QR code.
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Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
rsync
The classic delta-transfer tool for copying and mirroring files.
IPFS Desktop
A desktop app that runs an IPFS node for sharing files over the peer-to-peer IPFS network.
Syncthing
Keeps folders identical across your own machines, directly between them, with no cloud account in the middle.
