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iPad edition

Your network workspace, built for touch.

MultiSourcery for iPad carries the Mac app's Browse, Go, and Serving Files workflow into a touch-first workspace that works in portrait or landscape. Discover devices, browse files, connect with native protocol engines, host shares, and coordinate distribution from one screen.

In final testing and App Store preparation

Designed around iPadOS

  • • Portrait and landscape navigation with an exit control in every view
  • • Files, iCloud Drive, external drives, Photos, and the share sheet
  • • Local-network access requested only when discovery or connections need it
  • • Background-capable HTTP/WebDAV transfers; socket servers stop when the app backgrounds

See it on iPad

From a device to a transfer—or a Swarm

These are captures from the current iPad build. The Go workspace keeps transfer choices within reach, and its Swarm control opens the coordinator where you can add a Mac or iPad host, start serving the browser page, and monitor distribution.

MultiSourcery Go workspace on iPad with two source files, two Mac destinations, transfer progress, and the Swarm control
Two iPad files moving independently to Studio Mac and Archive Mac, with each transfer visible before Go.
MultiSourcery Swarm coordinator on iPad with Mac and iPad clients, verified parts, Host Page, and Add Host
The iPad coordinates one file across a Studio Mac and Review iPad, showing who holds each verified part.
A populated iPad workflow: review two sources and two Mac destinations, watch transfer progress, then open the live Swarm coordinator.

Find the useful device

Bonjour discovery, a bounded local-subnet scan, port fingerprinting, web-console detection, and offline OUI data work together to identify Macs, iPads, storage, routers, extenders, printers, and services.

Work with iPad files

Browse On My iPad, choose locations in Files or iCloud Drive, retain approved folder shortcuts, and add external-drive folders through the system document picker. Share one or many local or downloaded files with the standard share sheet.

Queue transfers

Collect files from local and remote sources, choose one or more destinations, resolve name conflicts, pause or retry work, and review persistent transfer receipts with byte counts and SHA-256 verification.

Host from the iPad

Choose a Files location and start a file server on an iPad-safe port. Each server reports clients and operations in the shared console and confines access to the selected root.

Distribute through a Swarm

A Mac or iPad can coordinate verified file parts across app peers and browser clients on the local network. Browser pages can collaborate without installing the app, while the host tracks peers, holdings, and transfers.

Keep credentials local

Passwords, private keys, server identities, trusted host keys, and saved connection credentials use the Apple Keychain. Face ID or the device passcode can protect imported SSH private keys.

Connect from iPad

Client protocols

  • • SMB 2.0.2–3.1.1
  • • SFTP
  • • Rsync over SSH
  • • FTP and implicit FTPS
  • • NFSv3 and NFSv4
  • • HTTP and HTTPS
  • • WebDAV and WebDAVS

Serve from iPad

Foreground hosting

  • • HTTP / HTTPS and WebDAV
  • • FTP / implicit FTPS
  • • SFTP
  • • Rsync over SSH
  • • NFSv3 / NFSv4
  • • SMB 2 / 3

What is still different from the Mac?

iPadOS does not expose the Mac's ARP table, raw network scanning, unrestricted filesystem, or always-on server model to App Store apps. MultiSourcery uses public iPadOS APIs: Bonjour and direct local connections for discovery, the Files picker for external locations, and foreground servers. Transfer automation and a few advanced topology-editing tools remain Mac-only while the iPad edition completes final QA.

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