Downloaded, installed, and registered very easily and quickly. Worked very quickly. Phenomenal piece of software! MANY THANKS TO GAOTD AND SCANTRANSFER.NET. My system: Latest update of Windows 10 pro 64 bit, Intel i5-3570K 3.40 Gh processor; 16 gig memory, 57% available; 240Gb SSD, 159 Gb free.

Why are people always talking about (smart)phones ?

We are many that much better like feature-rich iPads and Android tablets !

Can this programme cope with those ?

Wanted to get my entire iPhone Camera Roll transferred. Found if you mark one and scroll it will mark the ones you pass. Didn't do many at all and it was totally unreliable.

Also my iPhone shows the Transfer 'window' on the Lock Screen (iOS 14.5, iPhone 12), well after the transfer finished? Can't get rid of it it seems? Had to re-boot the phone.

On iPhone X iOS 14.xx with Win 10 Pro, download, installation and use of the program was flawless. I like the convenience of not connecting cable and firing up iTunes which I have set up on an external drive which has to be separately powered up and connected. The only thing I haven't figured out so far is when selecting the Browse function and choosing documents, I haven't been able to select a batch of docs for transfer, unlike the quick sweep to select a batch of pics. That would be a feature I'd like, but it might be a limitation of iOS.

Seeing as this sets up a server on the windows PC make sure that if it's a mobile device like a laptop or tablet that you make sure it is not running when you are on any other wifi connection as that would leave your machine vulnerable to unathorised conenction attempts and unknown security risks.

It installs an instance of apache 2.4.9 web server with PHP in a sub folder in the root of the C: drive by default. The danger here is web servers need regular checking for security patches to counter discovered security vulnerabiliteis in the wild.

The text file called "changelog.txt" in the installation folder is obsolete and abandond not being kept up to data with changes since version 1.1 back in 2018.

For me the program apears to stall in the "Preparing" splash window and it's CPU usage remains at 0.0 percent and no progress is made. How many hours is one expected to wait before admitting it's a broken design that is not system agnostic and fails on some configurations. (assuming it works in the vast majority of systems).

It is concerning that "ScanTransfer.exe" demands to be run as an elevated process. It should NOT be required for a properly written file receiving webserver. It should not be creating services or accessing or changing secured locations if it is properly designed and implimented.

Be certain that this will not use secure https to transfer your files across your chosen network but openly viewable http just on a non-standard port.
The only security is obscurity of the nonstandard port. Programs of this type that permit 3rd parties to place files onto your machine can plant illegal files or malware as easily as you upload your media from your phones.

I find it crazy that just for self hosting a simple webserver using http PUT to upload files to the windows device to use apache! There are much lighter options out there!

Ok got the GUI part to proceed it needed unrestricted access by my systems firewall to the TCP/IP stack... rights to access raw sockets and promiscuos mode deny it those rights and the program fails to load. GUI should catch that refusal of intrusive rights and return a graceful error alert and escape the otherwise infinte loop.

The situation is worse than suspected the QR code is not some impossible to guess URL to PUT files on your system... just simply inputting http://127.0.0.1:12304/ gives the simple web page when using a browser on the same machine. Obviously just port scanning the LAN IP and finding port 12304 open and trying a basic http 1.1 connection will provide an attacker on the same network with full HTTP PUT access writes, full knowledge of the type of server software used and if it is not kept up to date (it is not) and the version installed has any remote code execution vulnerabilites guess who's computer can be owned by someone else!

It seems the GUI needs perminant elevated rights because it must parse the IP numbers associated with all the network adaptors on the system. It must create on the fly an Apache2.4 service in the context of the SERVICE account and remove it when you shut down the GUI... Rather than build apache to operate as a process and not a server.

They also have a zip bundle they call a portable version.... warning it is NOT portable... it installs apache 2.4.9 and php5 onto the C:\ drive without asking and does not remove it when you exit the so called portable version. It also does not accept the giveaway pro license. In addition it provides no programatic way to uninstall the installed apache server heirachy so leaves a copy of apache and php on every windows machine you use it on thinking you did some portable non-poluting operation.... you didn't!

To support my point about the dangers of using an oprphaned apache install like this apache 2.4.9 (what is installed) is OLD and the very next build 2.4.10 fixes 5 CVE vulnerabilities from the year 2014, four denial of service and one potential buffer overflow which always has a potential for remote code execution if handled professionally. The current version listed in the 2.4 branch is 2.4.47 which leaves literally hundreds of unpatched bugs and vulnerabilities see https://downloads.apache.org/httpd/CHANGES_2.4

If they must use apache then it should be downloaded from a maintained binary distribution and on every start it should check for updates and dynamically install the latest stable build into the server.

I suspect this comment will be censored out of public sight due to this program doing so many bad things just to get a file from a mobile device onto a windows machine and me exposing it in this comment. Hey ho if it does get censored I'll post a copy on a parallel giveaway site that does not censor so much.

went for a simple test. 1.5Gb of photos. I found it was faster to shut my phone off, remove the usb, put the usb in the computer, copy things over, put the usb back into my phone and restart fully, before this program tranfered 400Mb. A lot more work, but also a lot quicker.

Transfer ok but not save data&time.
If I transfer photo I need file with original time.
Now only transfer time is selected.

Doesn't work for me, using Android and Windows, I have 2 routers thus 2 IP addresses, I tried using both making sure I was using the same one on each device. All it did was time out over and over.
Using a Samsung Galaxy A51 with Android 11
Acer Switch with Windows 10 Home

Hi, Do you have to have root access to use this on an Android phone? I scan the QR code and open the url via browser and nothing seems to happen. Thank you in advance, and hope this isn't just a dumb question.

When attempting to register, I'm told the supplied code is invalid.

Great program! Downloaded very fast, no issues registering, very quick transfer - keeper!

I couldn't get it to work on my Samsung Android.

A keeper. Thank you!

Easy set up, but once I scanned the QR code it keeps timing out while trying to connect to my phone and the desktop. Does not connect therefore not for me.

On windows 10 and my android (Galaxy S20) there is a free "Your Phone" app already available that not only moves photos and files back and forth, but you can use your PC to text, message, and more. It's simple. This might be needed for other OS or phones, but need for this type of program/app is becoming obsolete quickly.

So far this program is working as described and as expected. It took longer to set up than it does to transfer images (~20 at a time I've tried so far). I am using Google Lens on Android, and one long press and a couple of clicks later, my photos on on my hard drive in a location of my choosing. It is simple, easy, no fuss, and fast. This is replacing other options I have used, like Phone Explorer, Airmore, Airdroid, action upon USB plug in, and Dropbox. This is faster and makes choosing select images more friendly. Also, confirmed as in comment #2, "is able to transfer document files besides graphic files."

Loaded fine, transfer was fast and smooth. Nice tool. Tested on iphone 6s, worked very well.

I've used Airdroid for years but this actually seems simpler to use and quicker. I scanned the QR code, it opened a screen on my phone, I selected the files I wanted (including a couple of sizable video files) and they were transferred within a second or so over wifi. I'll still hold on to Airdroid for when I need to transfer files to the phone, which this software doesn't support, but I'm very impressed with it - the fact you don't need to install anything on the phone is commendable.

Definitely way, way faster than using bluetooth to transfer anything. A really useful giveaway.

Installed without any issues. Absolutely surprised at how fast the transfer was. Very simple process: Open ScanTransfer, use your phone to scan the program's barcode, (I needed to select the barcode's url), use file manager to find picture, select it and you're done.

You can select multiple files by holding down on the selection to select it. You must be on the same wi-fi network to transfer files.

In the past, I've used email or text to send pics from my phone to my pc ... this program is a godsend.

Sorry, it did not work for my android moto. Waited more than a minute to transfer one photo

Too bad it can only work one way: copying files from smartphones to computers.

You cannot copy files from your computers to your smartphones.

it works well

1. Excellent program “ScanTransfer”.
2. “ScanTransfer” is able to transfer document files besides graphic files.
3. *** Languages: English, Français, Deutsch, Español, Portugues, Italiano, Polski, Dutch, Ελληνικά, 日本語, 한국어, 家 中文, 繁體 中文, العربية, TURKİSH, Hrvatski, and Danish. ****
Russian language is present in “ScanTransfer”.
4. Minor flaw:
poorly digests (understands) files with Russian letters.
5. Really faster downloads to your computer than AirDroid.

Do we still require internet connection to do the transfer ?