Updated August 2026
    Slowing down
    1.9k

    PsiTransfer: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Simple file sharing solution with robust up-/download-resume and password protection.

    TL;DR • PsiTransfer • as of August 2026

    PsiTransfer is an open-source file transfer project, with 1.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 41/100. It committed 24 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: BSD-2-Clause. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    1.9k
    GitHub stars
    41/100
    Health score
    24
    Commits (12 mo)
    6/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year.
    Last commit 2026-05-29
    Days since last commit 80
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 24
    Months with activity 6 of 12
    Last release 2026-06-02
    Archived No
    Licence BSD-2-Clause
    Category File Transfer

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    BSD-2-Clause

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    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.

    What PsiTransfer means for your idea

    Crowded · 74/100
    File Transfer category →

    PsiTransfer is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    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.

    PsiTransfer: common questions

    Is PsiTransfer still maintained in 2026?

    Slowing down. PsiTransfer recorded 24 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-29. Last release: 2026-06-02. Commits have thinned out over the last year.

    Can I use PsiTransfer commercially?

    PsiTransfer is published under BSD-2-Clause. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the File Transfer category?

    58 open-source implementations, 28 of them actively maintained, led by copyparty at 46k stars. Saturation score 74/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

    PsiTransfer alternatives in File Transfer

    copyparty

    File Transfer

    46k

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, FTP, zeroconf, media indexer, video thumbnails, audio transcoding, and write-only folders, in a single file with no mand

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    SeaweedFS

    File Transfer

    34k

    SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Apache-2.0

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