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Pair your phone, Mac and PC once. Then browse each other's files, send in a tap, share the clipboard and see your phone's notifications on your computer. Files go straight between your devices, with no cloud in the middle.
Free and open source (MIT) 路 Android 路 macOS 路 Windows 路 Linux
No typing IP addresses, no accounts, no pasting links to yourself.
Show a QR code on one device and scan it on another, or type the 6-digit code. An optional PIN protects pairing and browsing.
Tap a device to open its files. Copy, paste, preview and send to one or many devices at once.
Clipboard, messages and phone notifications flow between your devices, and the receiving app wakes up on its own.
The best parts of a file manager, a clipboard sync and seeing your phone notifications (on desktop), in one app.
Browse and move files between paired devices on the same network. Incoming files land in a dedicated FileApex folder and never overwrite what you have.
Push files and folders to several online devices at once, from the app or from the Finder, Windows or Android share menu.
Opt in, then send your clipboard or a link to any paired device in any direction. Links open in the default browser.
Send a note, link or file to all your devices at once, like a group chat with yourself. Delete it on one device or all, and the notification disappears too.
Choose which phone apps share notifications. Reply to messages or dismiss them from your computer. Verification codes stay on the phone by default.
Lost it in the couch? Make a paired phone ring loudly from your computer.
Battery, charging state, processor, storage, RAM and network for every paired device, plus a low-battery alert on the board.
A CLI and terminal dashboard on desktop for scripting and headless use, and a browser extension that sends the active tab to your board.
Simple, Clean, Flux Glass, Kinetic Sphere and Freestyle. Simple is the default and is built for one phone and one computer.
Most people pair a phone with a computer. The Simple layout puts that one device front and center: a live overview of its battery, storage and memory, and a left menu to browse its files, share the clipboard and manage devices. Drop files anywhere on the page to send them.
Open your phone or tablet on one side and a paired computer on the other. Pick a folder on each, then drag a file across to copy it. Both sides keep their own path, filter and sort.
The Bulletin Board is a shared message feed across your devices. Write a note, paste a link or attach a file on one device and it appears on all the others. Filter by links, images, documents, snippets, files or pinned posts.
Pick the theme and layout that suits the device in your hand. Freestyle goes furthest: move anything anywhere, including the items inside menus, and arrange the app exactly how you work.
File contents stay on your devices. FileApex has no ads, no trackers and no analytics.
Discovery and transfer over Wi-Fi or Ethernet once devices are paired. Nothing leaves your home.
Reach paired devices across networks through your own tailnet.
Run the FileApex daemon as an always-on device for a NAS or home server.
Cloud presence, wake signals and an optional Drive relay for Bulletin Board files when a device is off Wi-Fi. Relay files are end-to-end encrypted.
Require a PIN to pair and to browse files. Sending files to a device never needs the PIN.
MIT licensed. Read the code, and read the privacy policy that explains every permission.
A new, optional way to reach your devices when they are not on the same network. Devices connect directly and encrypted using their keys, and fall back to a relay only when a direct path is not possible. The relay only ever sees encrypted data. You can run your own relay on a free cloud server, or use the public ones. Switch it on under Settings > Iroh. It does not need Google or a Tailscale account, and it is still experimental, so expect changes.
Install it on two devices and pair them. That is the whole setup.
Apps from GitHub can check for updates and install them from inside the app (opt in). Play builds update through Google Play.
Yes. FileApex is free, open source under the MIT license, and has no ads.
No. Pairing and transfers work on your local network. A Google account, Tailscale and the Drive relay are optional extras for reaching devices that are off your network.
Into a FileApex folder: Download/FileApex on Android and ~/Downloads/FileApex on desktop. An existing file is never overwritten; a copy gets a number like name (1).ext.
Not yet. FileApex runs on Android, macOS, Windows and Linux today.
It is new and changing quickly. Expect rough edges, and tell us about them on GitHub.