Onionshare VS PairDrop

Onionshare

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

PairDrop

Local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's AirDrop. Fork of Snapdrop.

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2021-10-20

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2023-08-05

OnionShare | Anonymous File Sharing

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Onionshare and PairDrop)

PairDrop

Cloud Storage

73 73%

Cloud Storage

27% 27

File Sharing

70 70%

File Sharing

30% 30

Secure File Sharing

57 57%

Secure File Sharing

43% 43

Group Chat & Notifications

100 100%

Group Chat & Notifications

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Onionshare should be more popular than PairDrop. It has been mentiond 57 times since March 2021. 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.

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 / 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: about 1 year 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: over 1 year ago

PairDrop mentions (8)

Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server
Looks good but any plans to make it open source? Similar open source solutions exist like: - https://pairdrop.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago
How to copy a file between devices?
No, you can use https://pairdrop.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
How to copy a file between devices?
Https://pairdrop.net/ works well enough for me, but it still requires internet unlike airdrop... I wish these bluetooth transfer things were just magically cross-platform. Maybe someday. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Does KDE connect work with Libretto XFCE de
Https://pairdrop.net/ which didn’t work well for some reason. Source: 6 months ago
Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
Https://pairdrop.net I've tried all the options in this thread but only discovered pairdrop 20 minutes ago (thanks to this thread) and it's by far the best option. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago