A teammate needs the log from last night's crash. It's 300 MB. Too big for email, and Slack will lose it in a few months. So it goes to a cloud drive: upload, open the sharing settings, pick who can see it, copy the link, send.
Five minutes later:
Your teammate is asking to open crash-2026-09-28.log
I'm a software engineer, and I was doing some version of this every week. Logs, builds, screen recordings, a database dump for a colleague, a PDF for a client, a screenshot for a bug report.
The frustrating part: the whole time, I was paying for my own Cloudflare R2 bucket. But getting a file into it meant logging into the Cloudflare dashboard, clicking through to the bucket, uploading, and then piecing the public link together by hand. So I kept reaching for tools that put someone else's server, and usually a subscription, between me and my own files.
Drop any file. Get a link. Straight into your own bucket.
So I built Aktar. Drop a file on the menu bar icon, or press one shortcut in any app, and it goes straight into your own S3-compatible storage. A second later the link is on your clipboard, as a plain URL, Markdown or HTML. No accounts, no permission dialogs, nobody else's server in between.
Any file works: a log, a build, a video, a dozen screenshots at once. And when a bucket is private, Aktar makes a temporary link that expires on its own.
Links that outlive the app
This is the part I care about most. Every link Aktar gives you points at your storage, not at Aktar. There is no Aktar server to shut down, no plan to cancel, no account to lose. If Aktar disappeared tomorrow, every link you ever shared would keep working.
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No server
Files go straight from your device to your storage.
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No account
Nothing to sign up for. Add your bucket and start.
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No tracking
The apps collect nothing, not even analytics.
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Your keys stay home
In the Keychain, Credential Manager or Keystore.
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Any file
Logs, builds, videos, PDFs and screenshots.
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Open source
Free and MIT licensed. Read every line.
Where Aktar runs
It started as a menu bar app for the Mac. Now it's on your phone and in Raycast too, with more on the way.
What's next
Android is in review on Google Play, and the Windows app is now on the Microsoft Store. After that, it's up to you: tell me what you share and what gets in the way on GitHub.
About the name
Aktar is Turkish for “transfer”, or “pass it over”. Which is all it does.
Mert TopuzSoftware engineer, maker of Aktar