Self-Hosted File Sharing Apps

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  1. Send icon
     82 likes

    Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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  2. IPFS icon
     176 likes

    IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Firefox
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    69 alternatives
  3. openmediavault icon
     105 likes

    openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. It can be enhanced via plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    17 alternatives
  4. copyparty icon
     13 likes

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • FreeBSD
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Docker
    • Termux
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    72 alternatives
  5. Lidarr icon
     29 likes

    Lidarr is a music collection manager for downloading and organizing music libraries. It is a fork of Sonarr designed for music.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    12 alternatives
  6. FilePizza icon
     68 likes

    Using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload step required by other web-based file sharing services. When senders initialize a transfer, they receive a "tempalink" they can distribute to recipients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  7. Squid icon
     59 likes

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    24 alternatives
  8. Gemini is a new application-level internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking between files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Screenshot of official Project Gemini page from Castor browser.
    3 alternatives
  9. XigmaNAS icon
     25 likes

    XigmaNAS (formerly NAS4Free) is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD. This project is a continuation of TrueNAS 7 series project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Blaze is a file sharing progressive web app(PWA) that allows users to transfer files between multiple devices. It works similar to SHAREit or the Files app by Google but uses web technologies to eliminate the process of installing native apps for different devices and operating...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    78 alternatives
  11. YouTransfer icon
     3 likes

    YouTransfer is a simple but elegant self-hosted file transfer & sharing solution. It is an alternative to paid services like Dropbox and WeTransfer by offering similar features but without limitations, price plans and a lengthy privacy policy.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    78 alternatives
  12. Instant.io icon
     17 likes

    Download/upload files using the WebTorrent protocol (BitTorrent over WebRTC). This is a beta.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    59 alternatives
  13. Hypercore Protocol is a peer-to-peer data network built on the Hypercore logs. Hypercores are signed, append-only logs. They're like lightweight blockchains without the consensus algorithm. As with BitTorrent, as more people "seed" a dataset it will increase the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Electron / Atom Shell
    • JavaScript
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    15 alternatives
  14. Pingvin Share icon
     3 likes

    A self-hosted file sharing platform that combines lightness and beauty, perfect for seamless and efficient file sharing.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    60 alternatives