Send files straight from one of your machines to another — no upload, no cloud in the middle, no VPN to install. And if the other one is asleep, send anyway. It arrives when it wakes up.
Free for your own devices. No account needed to start.
You own both machines. They're both on the internet. And the only straightforward way to move a 40 GB folder from one to the other is to upload it to a company you've never met, wait, then download it again on the other side — paying twice in time and once in storage for a journey that didn't need to happen.
Other tools have one or two of these. The combination is the point.
Bytes travel machine to machine over an encrypted connection. Not uploaded, not copied, not held anywhere in between. We couldn't hand over your files because we never have them.
Your desktop is asleep. Send anyway. The transfer waits on your laptop's own disk and streams the moment the desktop comes back — no coordinating, no "both devices must be online at once."
Three words that don't expire. Not a session, not a six-digit code, not a link that dies in an hour. An address, the way an email address is an address.
It generates your address on first launch and starts receiving. No account, no email, no password to choose. Mac and Windows.
One machine shows a short code; you type it into the other. They join the same private network and remember each other. Once per device, ever.
Files, folders, a 40 GB video, whatever. If both machines happen to be on the same network it goes over your own Wi-Fi and never touches the internet at all. If they're not, it goes direct across it.
These are good tools and most of them are free. Each one gives up something Native doesn't.
| Native | LocalSend | Taildrop | Syncthing | Cloud storage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works when the two machines are on different networks | Yes | NoSame Wi-Fi only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sends a file, rather than maintaining a synced folder | Yes | Yes | Yes | NoContinuous mirror | No |
| No VPN or network driver to install | Yes | Yes | NoRuns on a mesh VPN | Yes | Yes |
| Send while the other machine is asleep | YesSending app stays running | No | NoBoth must be running | No | YesVia their servers |
| Your files are never stored on a company's servers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| A permanent address that other people can send to | Yes | No | NoYour own devices only | No | NoPer-folder links |
| Free for personal use | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Up to a storage cap |
Your address comes with a link. Send it to anyone — a relative with photos, a colleague with a video file, someone on a phone. They open it in a browser, drag the file in, and it lands on your machine directly. No account for them, nothing to install, no size cap.
One personal link is included free, because being sent things is half of what an address is for.
usenative.com/amber-fox-lantern
Your address, a light telling them whether you're reachable, and a box to drop files into. Encrypted before anything leaves their browser.
The key never reaches us. Whether they open a link or type a passphrase, the key that encrypts the transfer is derived on their machine and ours never sees it. We carry the introduction, not the cargo.
Everything above is for your own machines and the people you know. When file intake is part of how you get paid, you need a few more things — and that's where Native costs money.
Mint a separate link for each one. Revoke a single client without touching the rest, and know who sent what without asking them to type their name.
Names, sizes, when, through which link — checked against what was actually written to disk. The thing you look at before deleting your own copy.
yourstudio.usenative.com instead of three random words. Available at any tier, including free.
We don't meter transfers, because your files never move through our infrastructure — there's no bandwidth bill for us to pass on to you. Flat fees, never per gigabyte.
Addresses are first come, first served. A free one is yours. A paid name
is held for as long as you pay for it, like a domain.
Paid plans aren't on sale yet — they go live with
the first public build.
The Mac and Windows builds are being signed. Leave an address and we'll send you the download link the day they're ready — that mail, and nothing else.
One mail, when there is something to download. Free for your own devices.