RetroShare Alternatives

RetroShare is described as 'Open source, decentralized communication platform with encrypted chat, voice and video calls, file sharing using anonymous tunnels, forums, and channels' and is a very popular Video Calling app in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to RetroShare for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best RetroShare alternative is Signal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RetroShare are LocalSend, Element, Discord and Tox.

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  1. WarpDrop icon
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    Privacy-first, self-hostable, realtime file sharing. Like AirDrop, but for people who don't trust "The Cloud™?" or just want to feel like a hacker sending files over a CLI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
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    A Python tool that lets you search and download torrents without leaving your CLI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. eMule Plus icon
     9 likes

    eMule Plus is a new generation eye candy eMule compatible client created to improve the original GUI and to bring you the best experience ever. Give it a try and feel the boogie. eMule Plus does not contain any spyware, adware or the like. Its open source and free for life.

    17 eMule Plus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Peer-to-peer messenger with real-time encrypted chat, secure file transfer, retro-inspired lightweight interface, no central servers, and only username and password retained for privacy. Built in C++ using modern cryptography and minimalist resource usage.

    8 Retro Messenger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. DreaMule icon
     3 likes

    The DreaMule is based on the Very famous eMule. It focus on correct it maily bugs and add more features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Opera Unite icon
     35 likes

    Opera Unite is an extensible framework that allows for several web services (referred to as "Applications") to be hosted from the user's computer, including a web server for hosting a site, file and photo sharing, a chat room, and streaming media.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. BitSpirit icon
     9 likes

    BitSpirit is a very powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client that provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalization features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  8. Arbore icon
     2 likes

    Arbore is a free and open-source file sharing application that enables you to send your pictures, documents, files to your contacts privately and without limits.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. iCroc icon
     Like

    croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders. AFAIK, croc is the only CLI file-transfer tool that does all of the following:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. WIFIDrop icon
     3 likes

    Local peer-to-peer file transfer via WIFI.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Android
     
  11. Perfect Dark icon
     5 likes

    Perfect Dark is an anonymous peer to peer network which aims to become the #1 in Japan. You have to share at least 40 Gigabyte of your hard drive which is used for the networks exceptional storage system which works like a global RAID array.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Root icon
     2 likes

    Facilitates community collaboration through voice, video, and text chat, integrated docs and tasks, configurable channels, roles, and permissions, seamless mobile and desktop access, rapid message reactions, file sharing, and notification controls for groups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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