Quick Share plugin brings Android file transfers to Omarchy over local network or Bluetooth
No companion app, no cable: a new community plugin lets your Android phone’s built-in Quick Share talk straight to your Omarchy desktop.
Image: PuroDelphi/omarchy-quickshare README (GitHub)
Getting photos off an Android phone and onto Omarchy just got a lot easier. Developer Jhonny Suarez (PuroDelphi) has released Omarchy Quick Share, a plugin that promises “Android Quick Share, right in your Omarchy desktop.” It sends photos, videos and files between your phone and your machine using the Quick Share already built into Android, over your local network or over Bluetooth when no shared network is available. According to the README, “No companion Android app is required.”
The plugin fits into the desktop rather than bolting on a separate app. It adds a theme-integrated bar widget, a transfer panel and incoming notifications, plus a Send via Quick Share entry in Nautilus’s context menu so you can push one file or a whole selection straight from the file manager. The panel is available in English or Spanish.
Receiving works the way Android users expect. Select Receive for 120 s in the panel, share from the phone and pick your computer, then compare the verification code on both devices and accept only if it matches. Sending goes the other way: put the phone in receive mode, choose your files, press Send and confirm the code on both sides. Opening the panel never sends anything automatically, and closing it does not stop an active transfer.
There is also a QR option. The README says that in “stable 0.3.0” you can select files and choose Show QR, then scan it with Android Quick Share on the same local network and confirm the code when asked.
Under the hood, a Rust service handles discovery, encryption and file streaming, a QML plugin drives the Omarchy UI, and BlueZ provides the Bluetooth side. The transfer core is built on the open source rquickshare project. The plugin’s original code is MIT-licensed, but the vendored rquickshare core remains GPL-3.0-only, so the README notes that the combined daemon “is not MIT-only.”
Installing it takes one command on an Omarchy desktop: omarchy plugin add https://github.com/PuroDelphi/omarchy-quickshare.git --enable. Then open Quick Share from the bar and select Install service, which opens a terminal to set up the Rust service and the Nautilus integration. You’ll need BlueZ for Bluetooth and Nautilus for the context-menu action, and the README says to restart Nautilus after first setup. Updates and removal use the plugin ID macondo.quickshare.
The project is young but moving quickly. The repository was created on October 11, 2026, and the latest release, 0.3.7, landed on October 22, 2026. It’s an independent effort, not an official Google, Android or Omarchy product, but if you’ve been emailing files to yourself, it’s well worth a try.
