LinuxDrop

Self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted clipboard sync + direct file transfer between Android and Linux. License: Apache 2.0 Platforms Self-hosted

LinuxDrop does three things between your phone and computer — in real time, end-to-end encrypted, with no cloud account and no vendor in the middle:

🔄 Clipboard sync — copy a link, an OTP, a paragraph, or an image on one device and it's instantly ready to paste on the other. 📂 Direct file transfer — on any network. Send any file or photo straight device-to-device, whether the two are on the same Wi-Fi or on completely different networks (phone on mobile data, laptop across town). The bytes go peer-to-peer — full speed on a LAN, hole-punched directly over the internet otherwise — and never pass through a server. 📶 Phone internet, one press. Laptop has no Wi-Fi? Tap Connect in the Linux tray and it wakes your paired phone over Bluetooth, turns on its hotspot, and joins it — you're back online through the phone's mobile data without ever touching the phone. The relay that connects your devices is one you host yourself.

You run your own server. There is no built-in/default relay — nothing transits anyone else's infrastructure. Stand one up in a single command (see Self-hosting).

✨ Features 🔄 Clipboard sync — text and images. Copy here, paste there, automatically (a screenshot on your phone is ready to paste on your desktop). 📂 Direct P2P file transfer — works across any network. Files stream device-to-device over WebRTC: directly even when the two devices are on different networks (NAT hole-punched via STUN, no port-forwarding), and at full speed when they share a LAN. The bytes never touch the relay. Send from the Android Share sheet (or a device's send button), or right-click → "Send with LinuxDrop" on Linux. 📶 Phone internet sharing — press-to-connect. When the computer is offline, one press in the Linux tray wakes your phone over Bluetooth, turns on its Wi-Fi hotspot, and joins it — online through the phone's mobile data, hands-off. The phone arms it with a single toggle (Shizuku-driven, no root); connect/disconnect stay manual, and the phone safety-offs the hotspot if the laptop walks away. The wake command is itself AES-sealed, so only your paired computer can ring the doorbell. 🔒 End-to-end encrypted — AES-256-GCM with a key derived from a secret only your devices know. 🕵️ Zero-knowledge relay — the server only sees an opaque room id; it can't read your clipboard, filenames, or device names, and file bytes never reach it. 🔋 Battery-friendly & event-driven — no polling. On Android the clipboard is read in the background via Shizuku (no root); on Linux via wl-clipboard. 🕘 History — recent clipboard items and transferred files are kept locally (encrypted); tap a clip to re-copy it, or a received file to open it. 📷 QR pairing & multi-device — share a network by QR; many devices can join the same one. 🔁 Resilient — auto-reconnects on network changes; survives sleep/roaming. 🛡️ Yours alone — everything is E2E-encrypted between your own devices over your own relay (OTPs and passwords included — syncing those is the point); the server can read none of it.