Send

Community-maintained fork of Firefox Send for private, encrypted file sharing you can host yourself.

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Alternatives ranked: 4
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About Send

Send is the community fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send, maintained by Tim Visée after Mozilla shut the original service down in 2020. Files are encrypted in the sender's browser before upload, and the decryption key travels only in the link's fragment, so the server never sees file contents. Links expire after a chosen number of downloads or amount of time, and can be password protected. You can run your own instance with Docker, and several public instances run the code for anyone to use. There is also a separate command-line client, ffsend, from the same maintainer. The code is licensed under the MPL-2.0 and mirrored on GitHub from GitLab. Because it is maintained by volunteers, development is steady rather than fast, and public instances set their own size and retention limits. It suits privacy-minded self-hosters who liked Firefox Send and want the same model on their own server.

Best for: Privacy-minded self-hosters who want Firefox Send's encrypted, expiring links.

What works

Encrypted in the browser so the server can't read files
Expiry by downloads or time, plus passwords
Self-hostable with Docker

Why people leave

Volunteer-maintained with slower development
Limits vary between public instances
No accounts or branding features

Top Send alternatives

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1
Wormhole
Hosted end-to-end encrypted sharing with nothing to run yourself.
66.5
2
Gokapi
Self-hosted Firefox Send alternative restricted to authenticated uploaders.
62.6
3
Erugo
Self-hosted sharing with accounts and branding.
59.6
4
SwissTransfer
Free hosted transfers with Swiss storage and passwords.
57.2

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Send: common questions

Is Send free?

Yes. Send is free, open-source software that you can host yourself.

Is Send open source?

Yes. The source code is on GitHub at timvisee/send. You can also run it on your own server.

What platforms does Send run on?

Send is available for Self-hosted and Web.

What are the best alternatives to Send?

The highest-ranked Send alternatives right now are Wormhole, Gokapi and Erugo. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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