Securely and anonymously share a file of any size.
OnionShare is an open-source file transfer project, with 7.1k GitHub stars and a health score of 59/100. It committed 137 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: GPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-07-31 |
| Days since last commit | 17 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 79 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 137 |
| Months with activity | 5 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-07-28 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Category | File Transfer |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
OnionShare is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Actively maintained. OnionShare recorded 137 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 79 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-31. Last release: 2026-07-28. Committed within the last 45 days.
OnionShare is published under GPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
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