Someone gave you their inbox.
Offer them files from your own computer. Replace photos/ with the files or folders you want to send; they see what you're offering and accept before anything moves.
curl -fsSL https://alduncanson.github.io/hither/run.sh | sh -s -- to photos/Already have hither? Just run hither to photos/ or open in the hither app
Keep the window open until it says they have everything. Add --as "Your name" so they know who it's from.
Bring files here, directly.
hither sends files and folders from one computer to another with no account, no upload and no zip. Every chunk is verified as it arrives, and interrupted transfers resume.
Install
curl -fsSL https://alduncanson.github.io/hither/install.sh | shShare something
Prints a link. Send it to anyone; they open it and follow two steps.
hither photos/Or open an inbox
A link people can drop files into whenever you're online. You approve each offer. Save a friend's inbox once with
hither friends add sam <link>and then it's justhither sam photos/.hither inbox
That link is missing its ticket.
The part after # should start with blob or inbox. Ask the person who sent it to copy the whole thing.
What is this, and is it safe?
hither is open-source software that moves files straight between two computers using iroh. There is no server holding your files and no account on either side.
- The ticket never left your browser. It lives after the
#in the address, which browsers keep to themselves; this page is a static file and records nothing. - Only the intended person can connect. The ticket names the other computer by its public key; the connection is encrypted end to end to that key.
- The files cannot arrive corrupted. Each 16 KiB piece is checked against a BLAKE3 hash tree before it is written.
- It is direct when it can be. When two networks refuse to connect directly, an encrypted relay forwards the bytes without being able to read them.
Piping a script into sh deserves a look first: run.sh and install.sh are short, plain shell, and only download a release binary from GitHub after checking its SHA-256. Anyone holding a link can use it, so share links the way you would share the files themselves. Source and documentation: github.com/alDuncanson/hither.