---
name: "Blip"
subtitle: "AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users"
date: 2026-05-05
link: "https://blip.net/"
linkText: "Visit blip.net"
source: "Reader suggestion"
topics:
  - macos-apps
tags: [file-transfer, cross-platform, menu-bar, free]
description: "Menu-bar file-transfer app that works like AirDrop but spans Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android — direct, end-to-end, no server-side storage, no size limit."
promotedTo: blip
---

AirDrop is great until the person you're sending to has a ThinkPad. Blip lives in the menu bar and beams files device-to-device the same way — pick a contact (identified by email), drop a file in, it streams directly without ever sitting on a Blip server. Works on the same Wi-Fi or across the internet, no size cap, and the Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS/Android clients all talk to each other. Free for personal use.