---
title: "LocalSend"
description: "Send and receive files with any phone, tablet, or computer running LocalSend, fully offline over your local network. Works as an AirDrop replacement in share menus and quick actions, with optional PIN protection and encrypted transfers."
canonical: "https://getdroppy.app/docs/droplets/localsend"
last-updated: "2026-09-09"
---

# LocalSend

AirDrop for every device, no cloud

Turns your notch into an AirDrop replacement that talks to every platform. Droppy speaks the open LocalSend protocol, so files fly between this Mac and any phone, tablet, or PC running the free LocalSend app, entirely over your local network with no cloud in between. Send from share menus and quick action tiles; incoming transfers ask first, support a PIN, and land in your folder and in the file tray.

## What it does

- Works with the free LocalSend app on iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux
- Send from the file tray, floating file tray, and quick actions
- Received files land in your folder and in the file tray
- Encrypted transfers with optional PIN

## How to use it

1. Install the free LocalSend app on the other device. It exists for iOS, Android, Windows and Linux, and Droppy speaks the same open protocol.
2. Send from the file tray, the floating file tray or a Quick Action tile. Both devices need to be on the same network.
3. Incoming transfers ask before they land. Set a PIN if you want a second check, and choose where received files are saved.

## Where it shows up

- Quick Action tile
- File action

## Workflows

AirDrop to an Android phone

Pick the device, send, accept on the phone. No cloud, no account, and the file never leaves the local network.

Get a file off a Windows PC

Received files land in your chosen folder and, if you like, in the file tray, ready to be dragged wherever they are going.

## Tips

- Discovery can be turned off so this Mac does not advertise itself. Sending still works while hidden.
- Encrypted transfers use a self-signed certificate created once on this Mac. Plain HTTP is only there for old clients that cannot do TLS.
- It needs Local Network access in System Settings, Privacy and Security.

## Getting it

- **Category**: Files
- **Setup**: Your other devices run the free LocalSend app.
- **Where to turn it on**: Settings, Store, or [open it in Droppy](droppy://extension/localsend) if the app is installed.