1
Open Floe and pick a file
Go to floe.one and drop a file onto the card, or click it to browse.
2
Create the link
Click Create secure link. Floe shows a link, a Copy button, and Show QR.
3
Open the link in a second tab
Paste it into a new tab. In real use this is where you would send the link to someone, or
have them scan the QR code with their phone.
4
Watch it arrive
The transfer starts on its own after a couple of seconds. When the file lands, a download
button appears on its row in the second tab. Click it to save.
What just happened
Your two tabs found each other through Floe’s signaling server and then connected directly. The file went from one to the other without passing through any server, which is why there is no size limit and no upload to wait for. The badge at the top of the card said Direct once that path was open. On a network that blocks direct connections it would have said Relay instead, and the file would have traveled through an encrypted relay that cannot read it. See How a transfer works.The same thing from the desktop app or the terminal
Both do everything the browser does, plus folders, plus writing straight to disk.floe receive olive-tiger-castle, or pasting the same code or link into
Floe Desktop’s Receive tab.
Any Floe can talk to any other
The browser speaks to the signaling server one way and the desktop app and CLI another, but they all land in the same room, so every pairing works in both directions.
One asymmetry is worth remembering. A browser recipient always needs the link. The web app has
no field for a three-word code, and a browser sender never mints one. Codes come from
floe send
and Floe Desktop, and both of those also accept a link. When you do not know what the other person
will use, share the link.
Folders are the other difference: the CLI and the desktop app send them and rebuild the structure
on arrival, and the browser cannot send them at all. A browser recipient of a folder can still get
the structure back by choosing Download ZIP, which rebuilds it inside the archive; saving files
one at a time flattens them.
Next
Which Floe to use
A feature-by-feature comparison of the three.
File size limits
When a cap applies, and how to stay on the unlimited path.
Security and privacy
What each part of Floe can and cannot see.