omdrop-owl
AirDrop between iPhones and Linux laptops whose Wi-Fi isn't Apple's Broadcom chip. Pairs with omdrop.
omdrop-owl launched on 8 October 2026. It ranked #88 on Daily Launch on 15 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 21, from +74 stars on 15 Oct on GitHub. It moved down 53 places from the day before.
What is Omdrop Owl?
AirDrop between iPhones and Linux laptops whose Wi-Fi isn't Apple's Broadcom chip. Pairs with omdrop. This builds OWL at the commit pinned in pins, with patches/, and installs it root-owned into /usr/lib/omdrop together with omdrop-discoverable and omdrop-awdl's portable tools, a polkit policy for the helper, a NetworkManager rule keeping awdl0, mon0, awdlibss0 and awdlap0 unmanaged, and a systemd .link file that keeps udev from changing awdl0's MAC address. hostapd is recommended: exclusive mode needs it on cards without ad-hoc mode. It conflicts with brcmfmac-awdl-dkms: one radio backend at a time.
From its README on GitHub
Omdrop Owl (omdrop-owl) is a repo by t4t5 on GitHub. It is written in Shell.
How to get Omdrop Owl
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In its own words
airdrop for non-apple devices
From its GitHub repository