Your files.Your devices.Your space.
Qurb keeps your files on the devices you own and moves them directly between them, encrypted. There’s no cloud drive in the middle holding a copy.
Everything is synced.
Your files are safe. Nothing needs your attention.
Recent See all
- IMG_2041.jpgArrived from Phone2 minutes ago4.7 MB
- Thesis draft.pdfSaved on this computer18 minutes ago1.2 MB
- Tickets.pdfCollected by Phone1 hour ago
- Holiday.mp4Local space freedYesterday2.3 GB
Everything is synced.
Your files are safe. Nothing needs your attention.
Send to device48.2 GB of files · 2 devices · synced 2 minutes agoRecent See all
- IMG_2041.jpgSaved on this phone · 2 minutes ago
- Thesis draft.pdfArrived from Laptop · 18 minutes ago
Not a cloud drive.
Your devices, together.
Qurb gives your computer and your phone one shared space. A file you add on one is on the others, and none of them needs a company’s server to keep it.
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Put a file in Qurb
A folder on your computer, the app on your phone. Everything in them is part of your Qurb space.
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It goes straight to your other devices
Encrypted before it leaves, over your Wi‑Fi or across the internet. Edit a large file and only the part that changed moves.
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Nothing in the middle keeps it
When your devices are on different networks, a small service introduces them — one you run yourself. It never sees a file, a filename, or who you are.
- Lake at dawn.jpgOn this device6.1 MB
- Holiday.mp4Available elsewhere2.3 GB
- Notes from Tuesday.mdOnly copy here12 KB
- IMG_2041.jpgDownloading4.7 MB
Qurb always knows where your files are.
Every file says where its bytes are, because that decides what you can safely do with it.
Free local space, keep the file
A file you free stays in Qurb and in the list. Its bytes are on another of your devices, and come back when you ask for them.
Never the only copy
Qurb won’t free the last copy of anything. If no other device has a file, it says so — Only copy here — and keeps it.
As much disk as you allow
Tell Qurb how much space it may use on a computer, and it frees what your other devices already hold to stay inside it.
The things you’d expect, done carefully.
Send to one device
Straight to one device and nobody else’s. If it’s switched off, it collects the file the next time it’s on.
Private Vault
Files that belong to one device. Another device you choose can keep a backup it never shows.
Two versions, never a lost edit
If two devices change a file at the same moment, both versions are kept, and you choose which stays.
Recently deleted
Thirty days to change your mind. Restore a file and it comes back on every device.
Choose who has each folder
Share a folder with some of your devices, or keep one only elsewhere and fetch each file when you open it.
Finds your devices by itself
On the same Wi‑Fi, with no server at all. Add a device once, with a code you scan or type.
Wakes your phone
A change on your computer reaches a sleeping phone within seconds, when push is set up.
From any app on your phone
Share a file into Qurb from anywhere on the phone — even with no network. It goes when there’s a way.
Anyone with these 24 words can read every file you keep in Qurb.
Private because of how it’s built.
Your key is 24 words you write on paper. Lose them and every device, and nobody can recover your files — not us, not anyone. That isn’t a gap in the promise. It is the promise.
Your files stay on your devices
They live where you put them and move between your devices. There’s no Qurb cloud holding a copy — and today, no Qurb servers at all.
Encrypted whenever it travels
Everything that leaves a device is encrypted, and goes only to devices you’ve added — each one recognised by its own key. Copies kept for another device are stored encrypted too.
A service that only introduces
Devices on different networks find each other through a small service you run. It learns that some devices want to meet — never what they share.
Where Qurb is, plainly.
Qurb is built in the open, and says what works and what doesn’t yet. Everything it does, and how far each part is checked
Works today
- The desktop app — on Linux, with an Arch package
- The Android app — synced with a laptop both ways, on a real phone
- Syncing from anywhere — over Wi‑Fi or mobile data, through a service you run
- Push — a sleeping phone woken within seconds
- A command line — for everything the apps do
Not yet
- A release — for now, Qurb is built from source
- macOS, Windows and iOS — Linux and Android come first
- A relay anyone can use — for networks that block a direct connection; it works, and nothing hosts one yet
- Dark mode — after the light design is settled
- Recovery without the 24 words — deliberately, for now
Try it on your own devices.
There’s no release yet. Qurb builds from source on Linux, and the Android app builds from the same repository.