CROC VS Onionshare

CROC

CROC is an intelligent tool built for easy and secure file transfer from one device to another.

Onionshare

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size with someone.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CROC and Onionshare)

Onionshare

File Sharing

48 48%

File Sharing

52% 52

Cloud Storage

43 43%

Cloud Storage

57% 57

Tool

100 100%

Tool

0% 0

Secure File Sharing

52 52%

Secure File Sharing

48% 48

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Social recommendations and mentions

Onionshare might be a bit more popular than CROC. We know about 57 links to it since March 2021 and only 46 links to CROC. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

CROC mentions (46)

LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement. Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ? I have used both for a number of years already. [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://github.com/schollz/croc. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
Some CLI alternatives if you don't need the GUI: Croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc I used to use MW but switched to croc as the single binary was easier to deploy. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
How to copy a file between devices?
Hacker usually has some kind of relay at hand: https://github.com/nwtgck/piping-server Or a NAT traversal tool: https://github.com/shawwwn/Gole Or can just manually ncat simultaneously from both sides to proper addresses and ports, probably with the help of some public STUN server. Note that if worst case combination of NATs doesn't allow direct connection, then by definition a relay is needed, hacker or... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
How to copy a file between devices?
I have gotten a lot of use out of croc. https://github.com/schollz/croc F-droid has an android app and the cli runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Super pain free. It's not a synchronization solution, but sends stuff pretty easily. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Check out croc, I've been using it for years, and it works pretty great too! https://github.com/schollz/croc. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Onionshare mentions (57)

A Beginner's Guide to Hosting a Dark Web Chat Interface
Open the Tor browser and navigate to the OnionShare website (https://onionshare.org/). - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
Ten years from Snowden revelations – what's next for Tor and privacy online?
Wasn't expecting to find something amazing from this blog post, but this project looks amazing! And has a few big partners behind it so I hope it does not vaporware https://onionshare.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Overwriting your Windows partition
Could you share the project file, pretty please? :D Maybe using OnionShare (https://onionshare.org/) or Firefox Send (https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/)? Source: 12 months ago
A reminder to Donate, and I need some help on how to
1.) Onionshare - I can't find any information on how to donate from their site https://onionshare.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
Most straight forward way to share a file with someone?
Onionshare.org is p2p over the tor network, so very private but such a large file would strain the network. Source: about 1 year ago