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I've been using this for months and it's generally pretty good. The UX isn't completely polished yet (as mentioned in the docs), but it's great for simple use cases like "I want to send a photo from my phone to a computer."

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Same. It’s labeled as alpha but I’ve had no issues, aside from the UI being a bit lacking. I usually just use it to send stuff to/from my phone easily. In that instance it’s kinda weird that the files just get dropped on my Desktop. But I’ve also used it a few times to transfer stuff to/from other devices.

There’s a lot of tools that fulfill “file transfer between random devices” but this one works great for me. Because I’ve got Tailscale everywhere already, I’ve also got file transfer everywhere too.

I've been using it since the initial announcement too. I filed one bug (on iOS after you send the file there was no way to close the send dialog) but otherwise it has worked well. I use it mainly to send images from my iPhone to my personal Linux desktop.

I'm hoping one day they will add some way on the Linux CLI to pick a file instead of just getting all the files at once. Or, dare to ask, a TUI file picker.

You could probably open a PR to accept filepaths on stdin, or maybe use xargs.

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