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LocalSend!
Works flawlessly, on windows, linux and android (and others) and you can send files, folders, text, or eadily paste your clipboard.
Phone to computer and back, I always use tailscale plus any file manager.
Then you can browse your files and grab whatever whenever you need to off your computer
Just use Telegram Saved Message feature and send files to yourself This pipeline works for me since it was released
Airdroid? Provides a WebUI to browse your phone, send and receive files, and e. g. write SMS if you're into that.
FTP Server option of Solid Explorer. Works great on Home Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrEOg7X0c0
Works also with Windows Explorer
Another one for KDE Connect. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html It works on everything. Linux, Android, Windows, macOS, iOS, SailfishOS(?). I use to to share files from phone to my laptop, laptop to Steam Deck.
LOCALSEND
It's an app for your phone and another app for your computer. Works good. It's how I do it. Uses wifi I think
idk what beaming is but I made https://dro.pm/ for sending files between any OS combination
Supports command line also in case you'd like to beam from there as well (of course wget to download, but if you curl|head the domain you also get instructions for uploading)
if you have the app/feature on both devices, QuickShare.
on Linux, there's RQuickShare, which lets you use QuickShare on Linux
KDE Connect has an app for Gnome too (GS Connect) so lots of flavours of Linux can join in. Brilliant way to sync your phone to your PC in every way.
KDE connect all the way. Runs on Linux, Android, and Windows (I think). Good way to share files, notifications, and clipboard.
Localsend has been really well considered. Only wish is that it recognized links and opened them in a browser automatically
I use FX on Android to connect to my shared drives on windows and my file server, and Nextcloud for syncing stuff. Looking to replace Nextcloud though because it's a little heavy for just that function and is kind of janky sometimes due to permissions issues on Android when trying to access the files with other apps.
KDE connect works great with Linux. You can easily put stuff on and get stuff off your phone.
I used airdroid in the past. It can also mirror your PC onto your phone and vice versa.
I don't know how it is these days, mustve been ten years ago that I used it.
Airdroid was aweaome. But they went and enshitified the thing.
The best app
kdeconnect worked very well for me to transfer between phone platforms. interface is pretty intuitive. ios app doesnt save settings and crashes when you try checking them but it works anyway. one of my oldest fantasies with the smartphones is being able to directly share music between phones with friends nearby and this app seems to make it begin to be possible.
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Sending files over bluetooth
let's
Localsend!!
If your PC has bluetooth: The default file share that comes up when you hit the share button can use bluetooth. Just set the PC to receive a file.
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