Public beta · early build

Folderbird for Linux

A small command-line app that puts your Linux machine — server, VM, Raspberry-Pi-class box or desktop — into your Folderbird device list, browsable from any browser.

Download for Linux (x64)
folderbird-linux-x64-beta.tar.gz Self-contained — no .NET install x64

Set up in one terminal

  1. Create a free account at folderbird.com, if you don’t have one yet.
  2. Extract and sign in — you’ll be asked for your Folderbird email, password, and a name for this machine:
mkdir -p ~/folderbird && tar -xzf folderbird-linux-x64-beta.tar.gz -C ~/folderbird
cd ~/folderbird
./folderbird login
./folderbird run
  1. Leave run running. Open My Devices — your machine is there.
Other handy commands: ./folderbird status (who’s signed in), ./folderbird logout, ./folderbird --help. To keep it running after you close the terminal: nohup ./folderbird run & — or ask us for a systemd unit.

Needs ca-certificates, which is present on almost every distribution.

What works in this beta

  1. Live browsing of drives, folders and files from the browser, including navigation into subfolders.
  2. File download and upload between the browser and the machine.
  3. Create folder, rename, save and read text files.
  4. Remote command execution through the exec channel, which is what the API and AI integrations use.

Known limits: a few AI-assistant tools (read file, create folder, screenshot) still send Windows-flavoured commands and return odd results here — browsing, search, system info, transfer and preview all work. Folderbird does not generate preview thumbnails on any platform yet, so previewing a file downloads the file itself. This build is not code-signed; the Windows build is.

What we’d love you to test

  1. The login flow — is anything unclear in the prompts?
  2. Browse around, download a large file, upload one back.
  3. Kill the network for a minute — does the device come back on its own?
  4. Leave it running for a day — still online? Memory and CPU reasonable? (top -p $(pgrep folderbird))

Anything odd, confusing or broken → info@folderbird.com. Terminal output pastes welcome.

Public beta (linux-x64) · linked from folderbird.com/Download.