I've used all of these except packet and localsend.

Warpinator: your firewall is closed open it. It's a fine app, insecure mode is a bit like airdrop for Apple devices, send files to any unsecured warpinator instance on your network.

KDE connect: calling this a file transfer app is like calling a Corvette a radio. Like, yeah it does that but that's not the point. If ALL you want is file transfer, there are smaller apps. S'good shit though, check it out.

Syncthing: idk maybe I'm dumb but I didn't get it. Felt like it was for backups, could never access my files on the destination device after transfers despite verification that they are in fact where I put them. Maybe a weird permissions issue?

No Pairdrop?

This works for me, for any adhoc files I want to get to any device any time, any place...

For any regular file transfers, syncthing.

I don't want an app to send files, I want to be able to rsync files to my phone like a normal computer.

I have data I want backed up so an rsync script sends it to a few different devices to keep multiple copies. I don't want to manually drag/drop files for that, I just want my script to take care of it.

KDE connect for me works very well. I even use it on my VR headset to share video recordings to my desktop then upload on my video server, really nice workflow.

I had a lot of trouble with keeping the connections stable and having to reatart services with both KDEConnect and Warpinator, but LocalSend has been perfect every time. I'm using a Fedora laptop with a Pixel 7 Pro running GrapheneOS.

It's bizarre that you have to go through such lengths to do it w native Linux also like scp or rsync; they're both Linux!!!

I've using localsend and it's great :)

I would normally use KDE Connect (iOS version) but I had some issues with it. The push local clipboard didn't work, and I think receiving files to my phone didn't work either. It also had a hard time reconnecting to my computer after pairing. It might be better now though, this was several months ago.

I use ghost commander on the phone to access the file server.

I think the easiest way is sftp over tailscale, works over any distance, easy enough to setup, plenty of apps, ish for an iphoneterminal apk add openssh (idk how to dload there but you should be able to, can convert files locally using ffmpeg off an iphone, pretty great), termius/termix/neoserver for a more "modern" way to connect into the terminal and sftp. I prefer apps with a terminal jic I need to use it to convert something real quick on my pc.

Out of the options they provided, I haven't used packet or gsconnect, but the others I have had many problems with. I'm convinced my ISP absolutely hates these programs because I've pretty much never had any luck with using them to send stuff to and from my phone.

Hell, I consider it a miracle that I can even connect my laptop and desktop using Synchthing. Though that's the one I have had the most success with in the past, so I'm not that surprised.

Good options. Croc is also useful for remote send to a random person. Pick your target file, it generates a three word code for the relay, end receiver types in three word code, the relay matches you up for a peer to peer transmission.

1. Open Termux
2. rsync -avrs --progress src dst
3. there are no more steps

In termux (base python module):

python -m http.server 8080

In linux desktop browser:

http://192.168.100.1:8080/ # your ip in `ifconfig` and port

or vice versa.