Are there any native magic-wormhole clients for ChromeOS?

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So, I have this non tech savvy friend who I want to share files with using the magic-wormhole protocol. He owns a Chromebook and while there are Android apps in the Playstore that do this, I am wondering if there are any native ChromeOS applications available?

I have an android phone, so I can search the Play Store for apps, but I don’t know how to search for native Chromebook apps to see if there are any available.

And shouldn’t there be any, do Android apps run on ChromeOS natively or must something be enabled?

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why use magic-wormhole?

you can share files directly with https://snapdrop.net/

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Jesse said:
why use magic-wormhole?

you can share files directly with https://snapdrop.net/

it is local only…

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Ash said:

Jesse said:
why use magic-wormhole?

you can share files directly with https://snapdrop.net/

it is local only…

i know an app but i dare not recommend it here cause knowinhg reddit, it’ll probably change shortly after due to some zero day or feature that gets “deprecated” (phased out, killed, or deemed insecure)

It uses Bluetooth. no fancy bs. Just the built in multimedia framework that’s been a part of Android since the begining.

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In chromeOS / Crostini / Debian I just installed wormhole and found I could sen and receive to a win laptop with wsl2 /Debian.

In both containerized Debians “sudo apt install magic-wormhole”

then on the one end “wormhole send [filename]” yields a code and in the other “wormhole receive <code generated in the other>” works.

So you can just use wormhole in crostini debian.

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Amanda said:
In chromeOS / Crostini / Debian I just installed wormhole and found I could sen and receive to a win laptop with wsl2 /Debian.

In both containerized Debians “sudo apt install magic-wormhole”

then on the one end “wormhole send [filename]” yields a code and in the other “wormhole receive <code generated in the other>” works.

So you can just use wormhole in crostini debian.

I just came across https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport formerly known as wormhole gui. I have not tried it yet.

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Amanda said:

Amanda said:
In chromeOS / Crostini / Debian I just installed wormhole and found I could sen and receive to a win laptop with wsl2 /Debian.

In both containerized Debians “sudo apt install magic-wormhole”

then on the one end “wormhole send [filename]” yields a code and in the other “wormhole receive <code generated in the other>” works.

So you can just use wormhole in crostini debian.

I just came across https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport formerly known as wormhole gui. I have not tried it yet.

I would give Warp a try too. I use it and love it. And it looks so good.

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Amanda said:
In chromeOS / Crostini / Debian I just installed wormhole and found I could sen and receive to a win laptop with wsl2 /Debian.

In both containerized Debians “sudo apt install magic-wormhole”

then on the one end “wormhole send [filename]” yields a code and in the other “wormhole receive <code generated in the other>” works.

So you can just use wormhole in crostini debian.

Well, he isn’t savvy and I would have to guide him, so I will prob just have him install an Android app instead. Thanks though!

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ChromeOS doesn’t have “native” apps. Only webapps (and Android / Linux apps hosted in a VM) are supported.

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Ashby said:
ChromeOS doesn’t have “native” apps. Only webapps (and Android / Linux apps hosted in a VM) are supported.

Hmm I see. ChatGPT told me there were native apps and that to be able to install Android apps you had to enable something in settings. So I just assumed curated apps were the norm for most users and that there were plenty of them. I guess I will just have him download an android app then. A Linux VM is prob too much for him, and it would be a pain in the ass to guide him by text having never user ChromeOS myself…

Thank you!

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what types of files are u sending and size? Size gets gapped out pretty quickly for most protocols. Anywhere from like 10-50mb max.And often u cant send certain file types like u used to depending. It gets tricky so u need a way to deal with that (such as a file manager app so u can change the name and ditch the file extension, then manually add it back after transfer)

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Eren said:
what types of files are u sending and size? Size gets gapped out pretty quickly for most protocols. Anywhere from like 10-50mb max.And often u cant send certain file types like u used to depending. It gets tricky so u need a way to deal with that (such as a file manager app so u can change the name and ditch the file extension, then manually add it back after transfer)

Varying sizes, from 3MB to 2GB. Mostly around the larger end though, as I will prob zip files together. I don’t think magic wormhole has such a limitation, but I will test it on my end today. Thanks for the heads up.

From my usage I never had any issue with magic wormhole regarding file type. Downloaded files have the same name as the original file.