PairDrop is popular, with 7.4 million installs. Users are divided: 3.6 stars from 5,010 ratings.
PairDrop is made and published by
fm-sys.
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About PairDrop
PairDrop is a productivity app developed by fm-sys.
Install Statistics
PairDrop has been installed 7.4 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 49 thousand times.
User Ratings
PairDrop is rated 3.57 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 5 thousand ratings.
App Information
PairDrop is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 5.62 MB. The latest version available is 2.3.1. The last update was on February 10, 2025.
Technical Requirements
PairDrop requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since March 2021.
Description by fm-sys(from Google Play)
PairDrop for Android is an Android™ client for the free and open source local file sharing solutions https://pairdrop.net/.
Do you also sometimes have the problem that you just need to quickly transfer a file from your phone to the PC?
USB? - Old fashioned! Bluetooth? - Much too cumbersome and slow! E-mail? - Please not another email I write to myself!
PairDrop!
PairDrop is a local file sharing solution which completely works in your browser. A bit like Apple's Airdrop, but not only for Apple devices. Windows, Linux, Android, IPhone, Mac - no problem at all!
However, even if it theoretically would fully work in your browser, you will love this app if you want to use PairDrop more often in your daily life. Thanks to perfect integration into the Android operating system, files are sent even faster. Directly from within other apps you can select PairDrop to share with.
Thanks to its radical simplicity, "PairDrop for Android" makes the everyday life of hundreds of users easier. As an open source project we don't have any commercial interests but want to make the world a little bit better. Join and convince yourself!
PRIVACY: This app interacts with https://pairdrop.net/ to be able to discover other devices running PairDrop in your local network. However, none of your files is ever sent to any server but are transferred directly peer-to-peer between your devices.
CREDIT: The app and its icon are based on the PairDrop Open Source project. https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop
Recent changes: snapdrop.net support has been removed due to security and privacy concerns after the website was acquired by an untrusted company. The app now exclusively supports PairDrop as a safer alternative.
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I don't know why some people saying It's slow and doesn't work sometimes. I have been using it for long enough to say it's a really great transferring tool. Actually, I think when the network info matches, like same Wi-Fi, it transfers the fastest, when it doesn't, it transfers slow. But it's okay. Great web app(trying mobile app now.) thanks to the creators.
★★★★☆Chandan Chandna· Jun 16, 2026
The app is good but needs one improvement As my phone is on Wi-Fi network and my pc is connected through Lan (static IP corporate setting). I used to transfer files from phone to pc, but I see that most of the time this Wi-Fi to Lan transfer dropped in between and the files did not successfully transfer. The app works fine when both PC and Phone on the same Wi-Fi network. I don't know if there is any setting I am missing, or it's an app bug. Pls reply-any users facing a similar problem.
★★★★★Timon Fiedler· Nov 19, 2025
Great open source tool to quickly send files from one device to another on any platform.
★☆☆☆☆Evelyne De Boer· Jul 20, 2026
Is not even able to send multiple files at once. If I want to send one file, I can also use something else.
★☆☆☆☆Rikus Van Dyk· Aug 11, 2025
The servers are very, very unreliable. Don't use this as your primary share app, it will have issues the moment you need to actually use it for something important... Explore other alternatives like Local Send
★☆☆☆☆Alasdair Grant· Jul 19, 2026
After like 5 pair/unpair tries I FINALLY got to the bit where you could choose a file to send. Error: 200 mb file limit to iphone. Video was 213mb. Uninstalled.
★★☆☆☆Felix Haldorn· May 18, 2025
Just a free cloud. Needs the same Wi-Fi and the app needs to be installed on both devices. For me useless, who's searching for an interface to basically use Airdrop with my Android device. However, I also saw a video that showed, that you can just go to their website in your Browser (still need same Wi-Fi) and share files without installing the app on both devices. So if you just search for a way to share in general I think you can use it, but then you can also just use the website.
★☆☆☆☆Vishal Sharma· Nov 7, 2025
Needs internet access. If I wanted to transfer files using internet, I'd have chosen any other platform. Why don't this app allows file transfer in offline mode?
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