Rictal logo — a stylized bird and flame in a blue-to-orange gradient
Free desktop app · Linux · macOS · Windows

Drag it in.
The link's already copied.

Rictal is a drag-and-drop file sharing app that sits in your tray. Drop a file, grab a screenshot, or record your screen — a shareable link lands on your clipboard before you've let go of the mouse.

Free · No account required · Bring your own storage

1

Drop a file

Onto the window, the desktop drop target, or the tray icon. Or grab a screenshot / screen recording straight from the tray.

2

Link copied, instantly

Rictal uploads it in the background and copies the shareable link to your clipboard the moment it's done.

3

Paste it anywhere

Optionally password-protect it first. Everything you've sent stays in a tray history so you can find, re-copy, or delete it later.

Everything a share link needs, nothing it doesn't

Built for the moment you need to hand someone a file and move on.

Drag-and-drop uploads

Drop onto the main window or a floating desktop drop target — whichever fits how you work.

Screenshot capture

Full screen, active window, or a region select — captured and uploaded in one motion.

Screen recording

Record and share a clip via ffmpeg, no separate app or export step.

Password-protected links

Gate any share with a generated password — copied to your clipboard alongside the link.

Bring your own storage

Local disk, SFTP, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, or Dropbox sync — your files, your backend.

Tray history

Every upload lives in the tray menu — re-copy a link, check a password, or delete a file in a click.

Get Rictal

One installer per platform. Linux covers Ubuntu (.deb), Arch (pacman), and everything else (AppImage) out of the box.

Unsigned installers. Rictal doesn't have an Apple Developer ID or Windows code-signing certificate yet, so macOS will ask you to right-click → Open on first launch, and Windows SmartScreen will show an "unrecognized app" prompt — click More info → Run anyway. Both are one-time.