A direct pipe, not a round trip
Most tools send your file on a round trip: up to a datacenter, then back down to the other computer. Pairchute connects the two computers directly. The file takes the short path — across your room, your office, or the internet — without a detour through anyone’s cloud.
Both computers open the page, one creates an invite link, the other clicks it and sends one reply back. The encrypted DataChannel opens and files stream across.
On a LAN, it runs at full speed
When both computers are on the same network — two machines at home, or across the office — the transfer never leaves the router. There’s no upload bandwidth ceiling and no server in between, so the disks set the pace, not your internet plan. Across the wider internet, Pairchute stripes the transfer across several encrypted connections at once to hold speed on lossy links.
Great for moving your own files
Switching laptops? Getting a big video off one machine onto another? You don’t need a cloud account to move your own files between your own computers. Open Pairchute on both, connect them directly, and copy across — nothing is stored, nothing is left behind, no account is created.
What each side needs
Just a modern browser on both computers — Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari to send; receiving very large files uses the File System Access API, which is on by default in Chrome and Edge. No app to install, no extension, and no account to create. Open the same page on both machines and you are ready to connect.
Send a file now
Scroll up and hit Create invite — you get a link to send the other person. They click it, send one reply back, and the direct encrypted pipe opens. Nothing is uploaded; nothing is stored.
Related
See also: sending files without uploading · file transfer with no account — and the Pairchute home page.