Magic Wormhole
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This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
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Developed by
Brian WarnerLicensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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- 681 Forks
- 170 Open Issues
- Updated May 11, 2025
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There is a gui called wormhole-gui by Jacalz for wormhole-william, which is the Go implementation of magic-wormhole. An Android app called Wormhole William is available on the Play Store. Sending/receiving files between Android and desktop running the original magic-wormhole is also possible.
Simply the best compromise between security and ease of use. Combine it with wormhole-gui, and you have a simple but powerful app to easily share files between friends.
Although it's still only a CLI tool, I'm baffled at the simplicity this brings for file-sharing across the web. Data is sent without a middleman (aside from a small string identifying the computer sending the data) and encrypted.
Secure, reliable, and occasionally, depending on your PAKE passphrase, fun!