THE HOLM GUIDE / STAY CONNECTED
Beam & friends
From your notch to theirs.
Send a file
Drag files or folders onto the notch. Pick a friend, someone nearby, Phone or Code. The recipient must accept a Holm transfer. Received files land in Downloads; folders travel as ZIP files.
Add a friend
In Holm 1.10 or newer, open Add a friend from the Holm window, the + beside chat search, or Friends → Add a friend in the right-click menu. Share the short invite code; someone entering it on their Add a friend page is added without another acceptance step. A code lasts 12 hours and New code replaces it. Invite codes require Holm 1.10 on both PCs and are available in the GitHub and Store editions. For a friend using an older Holm, choose Copy my long friend code and use the legacy request flow; the recipient accepts or declines the request. The Add a friend page also lists incoming and outgoing requests; unanswered requests remain open until answered or withdrawn.
Nearby and codes
Nearby discovers Holm on the same network. Code works across different networks: share the copied code privately, then the recipient copies it or chooses Receive with copied code. Codes work once and expire after 15 minutes. Use Code on networks you do not trust; nearby devices do not authenticate each other’s identities.
Send to a phone
Choose Phone to show a QR code. Scan it with your phone’s camera and download in its browser. The phone must share the PC’s Wi-Fi network. This is a temporary local HTTP link, not the encrypted Holm-to-Holm transfer channel. It closes on Done, after ten minutes, or shortly after all files arrive.
When a friend is away
With Send later on, files wait on your PC until the friend’s Holm answers. Holm retries for up to a week. The sending PC and files need to remain available; this is not cloud file storage.