# Sendme

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/sendme/

5 people recommended Sendme in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A free command-line tool for peer-to-peer file transfer between devices, with no central server and no size limits, built on the Iroh networking library.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Direct transfer without a central server (2 comments in the sample): "there are no limits whatsoever for sending and receiving files, because there's no central server" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907291)) "I regularly use their sendme cli for peer to peer file transfer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444336))

## Other file transfer apps people recommend

- [LocalSend](https://hackerapproved.com/p/localsend/): 65 recommend, 14 mixed, 23 criticize
- [Magic Wormhole](https://hackerapproved.com/p/magic-wormhole/): 17 recommend, 3 mixed, 5 criticize
- [Kermit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/c-kermit/): 13 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [croc](https://hackerapproved.com/p/croc/): 12 recommend, 1 mixed, 2 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sendme", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sendme/ (5 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.