LocalSend Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience81.2% of reviews
Neutral4.9% of reviews
Negative experience13.9% of reviews

~ Based on 648 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about LocalSend

Is LocalSend Safe?

LocalSend appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for LocalSend is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 661 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 661 App Store ratings for LocalSend.

Is LocalSend Legit?

LocalSend appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for LocalSend is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Won’t connect

Can’t find laptop, even when manually putting in IP address. Worthless to me. I’ll stick with my lightning cable to transfer photos to laptop.

Wonderful

Amazing app. Thank you so much for keeping it free.

Doesn’t work!

It only works at home but if I’m out and on the same WiFi, it will not see it. It’s so useless and there is no real way to troubleshoot. I will it worked without WiFi

Used to be good

Absolute garbage now that they’ve changed transfers, used to be simple.

Can’t find any devices

Can’t find any devices to connect to in a house full of devices

Perfect

Exactly what I would hope for for a local file sharing app. I use this across Android and iOS and it works flawlessly. Really really impressed.

I Love this app

Whenever I need to share a link with my PC i can just open the app and select it rather than using WhatsApp web or email like i normally would.

Literally perfect

Works great every time across all my devices, from Apple to Android to Linux. Highly recommend.

Must Have App!!!

If you own an Apple computer and an Android phone, this is a MUST HAVE app. This makes sending files between my MacBook Pro and my Z Fold 7 seamless.

Do not get

Why create an app that literally doesn’t work?!?!?? This app does not work! It literally doesn’t transfer files

It’s #### COOL

Best thing I ever used I transfer my phone and it didn’t transfer the pictures and this app just saved me RECOOMEN

Amazing

Rock solid in my experience - just _works_ Android/iPadOS/macOS

deliberately broke buggy trash

The developers broke the app so the only versions available on the App Store failed to download videos over about two minutes long often times. Now it also requires deleting the app after every use because it wastes a bunch of space on stuff you already moved and deleted through the Apple storage menu. If anybody knows of a file transfer app for iPad and iPhone that lets it show up like a USB stick please message me somehow :-)
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Excellent

Would it be possible to have this run in thr background with Live Activities ?

Great

Simple and effective.

My new favorite app?

I love this app for its simplicity and transparency. I can send an ebook from my iPhone to my ereader running KOReader. No accounts or convoluted syncing. Don’t even need an internet connection with everything being local.

Amazingly efficient and working as it should. Thank you developers

Easily send files and photos to Android phones.

Perfect app

I don’t need airdrop anymore. This application is perfect. If you need to transfer iphone to windows or macos to windows or windows to windows… or maybe android to iphone. doesn’t matter. This application absolutely perfect!!!

Seamless

Man, when I tried this for the first time it was amazing, seamless dropping, receiving, basically AirDrop but better

Wants access to entire photo library

An otherwise perfect, *almost* privacy-sensitive local file transfer solution. Unfortunately it wants access to your entire photo library instead of using the correct APIs, which is no longer excusable.