The Windows client of Baidu Netdisk has reached 8.9.2.101, and the work of the past year sits after the upload: image text search, inline preview of Word, CAD and PSD, frame level comments on video in team spaces, and a poster wall for local films.

An open source project that links phones and computers over one protocol. Files and links pass either way, phone notifications arrive on the desktop and can be answered from there, and one device can trigger a predefined command on another. Clients exist for every major platform.

A cloud storage service that charges once rather than yearly. Registration starts with a basic allowance that simple tasks can push up to 10GB, an optional encryption add on leaves the service holding only ciphertext, and clients exist for five desktop and mobile systems.

Termius is a cross platform SSH client, formerly Serverauditor, that gathers hosts, keys and snippets into an end to end encrypted vault; the free tier already covers SSH, SFTP and port forwarding.

A cross platform file transfer tool where the sender shows a one time six digit key and the receiver types it in, or a share link valid for forty eight hours carries the file to someone on an entirely different network.

A rewrite that throws out the old stack, ships as one executable and keeps the parts that matter: desktop and mobile sync, sharing links, and a deployment that fits on a page of instructions instead of a runbook.

Files sent in chat expire; a save action puts them in the cloud where they stay. Photo backup, document preview and a client on every screen make it a plain, useful locker rather than a new habit to learn.

Remote access with the trust chain kept in house: RustDesk is fully open source, works out of the box on a public relay, and lets you stand up your own relay so traffic never leaves your machine. Five platforms, encrypted sessions, free for personal use.

SHAREit builds a direct link between two nearby devices and pushes the file across it, so a large video costs no mobile data and arrives in minutes instead of the long wait a Bluetooth pair would need.

Rent storage and the terms, the price and the location of the files all belong to somebody else. Nextcloud is the open source answer: sync, share links, permissions and version history on a machine you control, with calendar, contacts and document editing bolted on.

No cable and no account needed to send a file: Feem pairs devices on the same network and delivers photos, videos and documents directly, without a third party server in the path, on every major platform, and the free edition already covers ordinary daily transfers.

MEGA is a cloud storage service built around zero knowledge encryption: files are encrypted on your own machine before they are uploaded, so even the provider cannot read them, and MEGAsync syncs Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile.

TeamViewer has spent about twenty years on remote access and is still the tool people reach for when a machine somewhere else has to be fixed. Two clients, an ID and a temporary password and the connection is up; the person receiving help needs no installation at all, and an agent on the far side allows unattended access 24 hours a day. Sessions use 4096-bit key exchange with 256-bit encryption, and personal non-commercial use stays free.

Drop a file in the browser, get a link that expires by time or by download count, and the key never leaves the link itself. No account, and the whole thing can be self-hosted.

A remote desktop tool from AnyDesk Software GmbH in Germany that uses its own DeskRT codec to hold local network latency under 16 milliseconds, with built-in file transfer, clipboard sync and remote printing across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Free for personal use, licensed for business.