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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.

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Localsend

Just use Telegram Saved Message feature and send files to yourself This pipeline works for me since it was released

Phone to computer and back, I always use tailscale plus any file manager.

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

Airdroid? Provides a WebUI to browse your phone, send and receive files, and e. g. write SMS if you're into that.

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.

FTP Server option of Solid Explorer. Works great on Home Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrEOg7X0c0

Works also with Windows Explorer

https://localsend.org/

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Localsend has been really well considered. Only wish is that it recognized links and opened them in a browser automatically

KDE connect works great with Linux. You can easily put stuff on and get stuff off your phone.

Localsend!!

if you have the app/feature on both devices, QuickShare.

on Linux, there's RQuickShare, which lets you use QuickShare on Linux

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)

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.

First, buy a domain. Then, set up a server, then a hypervisor on the server, then set up a reverse proxy, punch a hole in your firewall, set up MFA, set up a container, install docker, set up NextCloud using a docker-compose, set up accounts and a client on the devices... Simple!

Also KDE connect but I just learned you can send more than one file at a time through it.

• From Android to Linux Desktop: select files then the share button then send to [Your PC Name here] via KDE connect
• Both ways: select Remote Filesystem and just move or copy files around in the file browser.

Sending files over bluetooth

Kde connect works good, but https://pairdrop.net/ may be helpful.

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for regular, instant, no-fuss between devices you control.

I use Syncthing-Fork in my phone (has more flexible sybc conditions) to keep specific folders in sync.

I use Resilio Sync on my file server just for the Selective Sync feature, which enables me to easily grab any file from the server from anywhere.

There are already mentions of LocalSend (i use it for smaller stuff), Syncthing (for keeping folders synchronized, i use it to keep Wine prefixes between my Pc and my Steam Deck up to date) and KdeConnect (I use it for Clipboard sharing); I also use Copyparty, which runs on everything that allows python to run (so pretty much everything) and handles everything from single files to folders, up- and download, drag&drop support, serving mediafiles and so on, with lots and lots of features. give it a try!

I use Syncthing for this; it syncs directories on my phone and computer, so to put something on my computer from my phone I just put it in that directory. I share my camera roll so my pictures are synced with my computer.

If you just want a "send this file" application, warpinator might do that.

I use Signal's "note to self" conversation. Since you can install the desktop version of Signal on basically any OS, it is almost perfectly cross-platform.

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.

Syncthing!