Changelog
Share pages, encrypted links and file requests
Aktar 0.21.0 is about what the other person sees when they open your link. It can now open a small page in your own bucket, with a preview, a download button and a proper card in Slack, Discord, iMessage and X. Several files uploaded together get one page and one link. Files can be encrypted before they leave your device, so only someone with the link or the password can open them. Request Files works the other way round: a link where others send files straight into your bucket. And Import from ShareX turns your ShareX uploaders into Aktar destinations. Aktar for Windows 0.14.0 and the iPhone and Android app 1.12.0 have all of it, except the ShareX import, which is for the Mac and Windows. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.
- Mac0.21.0
- Windows0.14.0
- iPhone & iPad1.12.0coming soon
- Android1.12.0
A page next to every upload
Turn on Share Page for a destination, and every upload also gets a small page next to it in your bucket, with a preview, a download button and, when the file expires, the date it does. That page's link is the one copied, and Slack, Discord, iMessage and X show a card for it. Text and code files up to 256 KB are shown on the page itself, highlighted, with Copy text and Wrap lines. The page is shown in the visitor's language. Nothing is hosted anywhere but your own bucket, and the page goes when the file does, on Delete, Undo and Delete after; Replace File writes it again. Share Page is off until you turn it on.
One link for many files
On a destination with share pages, several files dropped, pasted or shared at once, or a folder uploaded with its structure, get one page and one link instead of a list of links. The page shows them all, and Download all saves them as a ZIP.
Encrypted links
A destination can now encrypt files on your device before they go up, with AES-256-GCM. With Key in the Link, the key is in the part of the link after the #, which browsers don't send to the server and which never reaches a link shortener. With Ask for a Password, Aktar asks for a password when you upload, and the link alone doesn't open the file. Either way the link opens a page that decrypts the file in the browser, and your storage provider only ever sees noise. Replace File keeps the link working. Encrypted files get no bucket thumbnail and no preview card, and their link is copied once the upload is done.
Request Files
Request Files, in the panel and in the Library, makes a link where anyone can send you files, straight into your bucket, for an hour, a day or a week. Give it a title and a note, and choose how many files it takes (up to 20) and how big each may be (up to 5 GB). Aktar collects what arrives every 2 minutes while it's running, or on Check Now, and uploads it through the destination's usual upload, so its naming, Delete after, thumbnails and short links apply and the files show up in history. The Library's Requests list has each link, its QR code and Close Now, which ends it at once. When the page and the bucket are on different domains, Aktar adds the CORS rule the page needs and keeps the bucket's other rules.
Switch from ShareX
Import from ShareX in Settings › Destinations turns ShareX's Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 uploaders into Aktar destinations, path template included, so your bucket, your domain and the links you've already shared stay as they are. Its URL shorteners become short link settings. Before anything is saved, a review shows what's imported and what's skipped, and each new destination is tested right away. On Windows, Aktar finds ShareX's settings by itself, reads the secret keys ShareX encrypted with Windows' data protection straight into Credential Manager, and brings the upload history along. On the Mac, pick ShareX's UploadersConfig.json or a .sxb backup, and type in once the keys ShareX encrypted for Windows. The Switch from ShareX page has the details.
On your phone
The iPhone and Android app 1.12.0 has share pages, galleries, text pages and encrypted links too, set per destination. Files are encrypted 64 KB at a time, so even a large video never has to fit in memory. Request Files is in the Upload tab's More menu and in Library › Requests, and the app collects what arrives when it opens, when it comes back to the front and every 2 minutes while it's open. Uploads from Shortcuts, Android automation apps and the bucket browser don't get a share page.
All changes in this release
New
- Share Page per destination: every upload gets a page next to it in your bucket, with a preview and a download button, and Slack, Discord, iMessage and X show a card for its link.
- Text and code up to 256 KB are shown on the page, highlighted, with Copy text, Download and Wrap lines.
- Galleries: several files uploaded together get one page and one link, with Download all as a ZIP.
- Encrypted links: files are encrypted on the device with AES-256-GCM before they go up, with Key in the Link or Ask for a Password. The page decrypts them in the browser, and the key never reaches a link shortener.
- Request Files: a link where anyone can send you up to 20 files, straight into your bucket, for an hour, a day or a week, with a title, a note and a size limit. Aktar uploads what arrives through the destination's usual upload.
- Import from ShareX on the Mac and Windows: Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 uploaders become destinations, URL shorteners become short link settings, and on Windows the secret keys and upload history come along. See Switch from ShareX.
- Copy File Link in the Library copies the file's own link when an upload has a share page.
Improved
- "Copy as" Custom has a
{file}variable: with a share page,{url}is the page and{file}the file itself. Markdown and HTML keep embedding images, videos and audio from the file. - Share to Another Device and Import from Another Device carry the Share Page and Encryption settings.
- The destination form warns when share pages or encrypted links are on an r2.dev address, or on a path-style URL shared with other buckets.