LocalSend: Transfer Files

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16.1K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
10M+
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About this app

LocalSend is a secure, offline-first file transfer solution, purpose-built for professionals, teams, and organizations operating in high-trust, security-critical environments.
With over 8 million downloads globally, LocalSend enables fast, encrypted peer-to-peer file sharing — without the cloud, without internet access, and without surveillance.

✅ Fully offline operation – transfer files over local Wi-Fi or LAN, no internet required
✅ End-to-end TLS encryption – full confidentiality and integrity of your data
✅ Cross-platform compatibility – available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux
✅ No tracking, no data collection, no ads
✅ Open-source & fully transparent – trusted worldwide in defense, critical infrastructure, and secure enterprise environments

Designed for use cases where control, privacy, and operational integrity are non-negotiable.
Ideal for deployment in corporate networks, mobile field units, temporary infrastructures, and air-gapped or connectivity-constrained environments.
Send files to nearby devices - open source, cross platform
Updated on
Aug 21, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • No data collected
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Ratings and reviews

14.4K reviews
Jonathan Redfearn
June 8, 2026
Free, simple and efficient. I was able to send music and files from my laptop to my phone easily over local WiFi, you just install this on the sending and receiving devices and then you're sorted. The interface is pretty easy to work out - click send on the sending machine and choose the files out folder you want to send and click the alias for the recipient device. On the receiving device go to the receive tab - it's off by default, so just press on and accept the transferred files. Easy
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Becky
August 24, 2024
What a fantastic app. I wish all apps were this useful, this reliable and this easy to use. I have Android phone, MacBook and iPad so sharing files to/from Android was a pain in the arse until I found this. All my devices never fail to find each other instantly, and even large image files send very quickly. It's literally never failed. Thank you to the devs for not sharing my data too, to some of us this really matters.
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linda main
April 7, 2023
Mostly very positive experience, much faster sending than others thanks to local network. If you allowed me to send full folders from my MacBook over, I'd definitely go to 5 stars, because sending individual files means restructuring the folders on the phone which is extra work I don't have to do on the slower ones, so kind of a trade off where eventually I lose the advantage of this app being faster. Apart from that, it's percect
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What’s new

restore compatibility with 1.17.0 and earlier