snowshare
File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 69 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.5.7 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload: WeTransfer alternatives.
At a glance
snowshare quick facts
- Health score
- 88/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 91
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.5.7, Oct 2026
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "SnowShare is a self-hosted app for sharing files, links and pastes. You run it on your own server, and anyone you send a link to can open it, with or without an account depending on how you set it up."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
snowshare scores 88/100, #11 of 33 in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload: 69 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.5.7, 14 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 91 stars add 7.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 12.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
69 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.5.7 released 14 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 7.9 / 20
91 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 69
- Last 90 days
- 284
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 33 tools in File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload by health , between 1time (#10) and OnionShare (#12) .
Details
| Licence | CC0-1.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | v1.5.7 · 14 days ago |
| Stars | 91 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | TuroYT/snowshare ↗ |
snowshare vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with snowshare (File Transfer - Single-click & Drag-n-drop Upload), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yopass | 94 | 3.2k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 015 | 91 | 422 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Flare | 89 | 138 | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 1time | 88 | 82 | MIT | yesterday |
| snowshare (this tool) | 88 | 91 | CC0-1.0 | 2 days ago |
| Local Content Share | 51 | 492 | MIT | 9 months ago |
snowshare: common questions
Is snowshare still maintained?
snowshare had 69 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.5.7, is from 14 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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