PeerDrop — Direct file transfer. No cloud.

Now on Mac, iPhone, Android & Linux

Send files directly.<br>No cloud required.

PeerDrop connects your devices and contacts peer-to-peer —<br>fast, encrypted, and completely serverless.

macOS 13+<br>iOS 16+<br>Android 7+<br>Linux

Servers involved

E2E<br>Encrypted transfers

File size limit

Platforms supported

Why PeerDrop

Built for people who care about privacy and speed.

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End-to-end encrypted

Every transfer uses the Noise protocol with Curve25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305. Unreadable to anyone except the recipient.

No cloud, no waiting

Files go directly device to device over Hyperswarm. No upload then download — pure peer-to-peer at full network speed.

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Lives in your menu bar

One click, see who's online, drop the file. PeerDrop stays out of your way and appears exactly when you need it.

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No accounts ever

Your identity is a cryptographic key stored only on your device. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log into.

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Cross-platform

Send from your MacBook to your iPhone, Android, or Linux machine. One identity works across all your devices automatically.

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Any file, any size

Drag a single photo or an entire project folder. PeerDrop handles files and directories of any size without limits.

How it works

Three steps. First time only.

Share your Peer ID

Open Settings, copy your Peer ID and send it to whoever you want to connect with. Just once, forever.

Connect automatically

PeerDrop uses Hyperswarm to find your contacts across any network — home, office, cellular. No configuration.

Drop to send

Drop any file onto their panel in your menu bar. It arrives on their machine in seconds, encrypted all the way.

Transfers

Watch it fly.

Real-time progress, right inside the send panel. Queue more files while the current one is in flight.

Progress bar per file

Queue multiple files at once

Native macOS notifications on completion

Files land in your Downloads/PeerDrop folder

Identity

One key.<br>Every device.

PeerDrop derives your identity from a mnemonic seed. The same seed on multiple devices means they all share one Peer ID — your own devices appear in "My Devices" automatically.

Cryptographic identity, no account needed

Same ID across all your Macs, iPhones and Android devices

Copy or QR-share your Peer ID from Settings

Seed stored locally, never leaves your device

Ready to drop<br>without the cloud?

Free, open source, and available now on Mac, iPhone, Android, and Linux.