Best Self-Hosted File sharing Tools

4 self-hostable file sharing tools you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

File sharing

copyparty

A file server that shares folders through a web browser with resumable uploads and downloads, and can also serve them over WebDAV, SFTP, FTP/S, TFTP and SMB. It needs only Python, with optional extras for thumbnails, media indexing and audio transcoding.

Python

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File sharing

PsiTransfer

A file-sharing web app without user accounts: upload files into a bucket, set an expiry time or one-time download, optionally password-protect it, and share the link. Uploads and downloads are resumable and there is no end-to-end encryption.

Node.jsVue

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File sharing

SFTPGo

A file transfer server that exposes local disk, S3-compatible, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Blob storage over SFTP, FTP/S, WebDAV and HTTP, with a web admin for users and a web client for uploads and share links. The Community Edition is AGPL-3.0; a commercial Enterprise Edition adds features such as antivirus scanning and in-browser document editing.

Go

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File sharing

Zipline

A file upload server designed as a ShareX upload target, with a web dashboard, URL shortening, folders, tags, embeds, quotas, invites and an API. It stores uploads on local disk or S3 and uses PostgreSQL for metadata.

TypeScriptReactFastifyPostgreSQL

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