End-to-end encrypted · peer-to-peer · early access

No cloud in the middle.

Cynth sends files and folders of any size straight between your devices and the people you trust. No upload links. No size limits. End-to-end encrypted.

Free during early access. One email when it's ready for your platform — nothing else.

$ cynth send ./footage.mov → arrives on your other device, directly

How it works

It finds the shortest path — and gets out of the way.

Cynth connects your devices the fastest safe way it can, in priority order. You never pick; it just takes the most direct route available.

01 · LAN direct

On the same network

Your devices find each other and transfer at local-network speed. Nothing leaves your network.

02 · WAN direct

Across the internet

Behind NATs, devices punch a direct hole through and connect peer-to-peer, coordinated by the signaling server.

03 · Encrypted relay

When direct is impossible

Frames fall back through a relay that forwards ciphertext only. Slower, still private — the relay never sees your files.

Features

Built to send, not to store.

Any size, any folder

Send a screenshot or a 400 GB project. No caps, folder structure intact.

Resumes on its own

Connection drops mid-transfer? It picks up exactly where it left off.

Your devices, your contacts

Pair your own machines and send to the people you trust. No account needed to move between your own devices.

Five platforms, one core

Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux — the same guarantees everywhere, on a shared core engine.

Direct-first

Local speed when it can, a direct link when it can't, an encrypted relay only as a last resort.

Built on QUIC

Fast, modern transport with mutual-TLS authentication between devices.

Security

Private because of how it's built — not because we promise.

Every connection is authenticated both ways with mutual TLS, using certificates derived from a per-device Ed25519 identity key. Your files travel directly between devices; when a direct path is impossible, they fall back through a relay that only ever forwards ciphertext. There's no upload step and no server-side copy — your data lives only on your devices.

identity Ed25519 key, per device — never leaves it auth mutual TLS, both ends prove who they are transport QUIC · chunked · resumable relay forwards ciphertext only — never plaintext storage none. no cloud, no server-side copy.

Read the full security model →

Early access

Be first to send with nothing in the middle.

Cynth is in active development. Join the list and you'll get one email when it's ready for your platform.

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About

Why Cynth exists

The files you own shouldn't have to pass through someone else's computer to reach your own.

You have a file here and you want it there — on your other device, or with someone you trust. The modern answer is to upload it to a company's servers, wait, get a link, and hope the size cap holds. A private handoff, turned into a transaction on infrastructure you don't control.

The middleman isn't a law of physics — it's a business model. Devices on one network find each other directly. Devices behind routers punch a direct path through. And when a direct path is impossible, a relay can carry the traffic without ever reading it. Cynth is built around one refusal: it won't become a copy of your files on a server you don't own.

The name is short for Cynthia — the moon goddess, whose silver arrow flies straight — and a tribute to my wife, Cindy. The metaphor just happened to fit.