OnionShare vs ProjectSend

Both are self-hosted file transfer - single-click & drag-n-drop upload projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

ProjectSend scores 75 against OnionShare's 69, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — OnionShare may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
OnionShareProjectSend
Health score 69/100 75/100
Commits (11 mo) 142 482
Commits (last 3 mo) 84 352
Stars 7.1k 2k
Latest release 28 Jul 2026 25 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-3.0 GPL-2.0
Built with Python, deb PHP
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

OnionShare

Securely and anonymously share a file of any size.

69/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 15/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 37% of tracked projects; popularity more than 73%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 5 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 35 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 18 commits 2026-06: 61 commits 2026-07: 19 commits 2026-08: 4 commits

ProjectSend

Upload files and assign them to specific clients you create. Give access to those files to your clients.

75/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 25/40
Releases 25/25
Community 10/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 63% of tracked projects; popularity more than 49%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 34 commits 2025-11: 4 commits 2025-12: 16 commits 2026-01: 2 commits 2026-02: 9 commits 2026-03: 53 commits 2026-04: 12 commits 2026-05: 0 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 0 commits 2026-08: 352 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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