https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/914f588a-cd6a-4f8d-b629-d7a1b1e10711 PairDrop is file sharing in the browser: send files between phones, tablets and laptops of any make, with nothing to install. Run PairDrop with ElfHosted, and you get your own private space: only devices you've given the address can see each other, not strangers on a public instance. It lives at a secure address that never changes, so you bookmark it once on every device, and we renew its certificate, keep it updated and run it around the clock, with no server of yours to look after. PairDrop itself is the work of the PairDrop project. What is PairDrop? Open-source file sharing that runs in your web browser. Inspired by Apple's AirDrop, it works across every platform: open your PairDrop address on two devices, they see each other, and you drop photos, documents, whole folders or a quick bit of text from one to the other. It's the easy way to send files between devices in a household with a mix of phones, tablets and laptops, with no app to install. Not in the same place? Pair two devices with a short code and send across the internet. Hosted PairDrop is part of the ElfHosted Flex collection: a Flex plan runs several apps from the collection at once, and you swap which ones whenever you like. Every Flex plan starts with a 7-day trial. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. If something's not right, Sam checks your apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks before fixing it. PairDrop is open source; ElfHosted is not affiliated with the PairDrop project. You can support PairDrop's developer through the links below. When Sam can't help, a person from our team is on Discord at any hour, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. It's one place for support for every app you run with us, handled by professionals, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. Try it with ElfHosted Flex: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/flex/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=pairdrop PairDrop docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/pairdrop/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=pairdrop ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=pairdrop The Flex collection: https://store.elfhosted.com/product-category/flex-collection/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=pairdrop Support PairDrop on GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/schlagmichdoch Support PairDrop on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/pairdrop Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:15 What is PairDrop 0:25 Running PairDrop yourself 0:56 Hosted PairDrop, kept running for you About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #PairDrop #FileSharing #ElfHosted Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:57:11 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/914f588a-cd6a-4f8d-b629-d7a1b1e10711 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.