---
id: SHR-1
title: Sharing nearby
group: Sharing
summary: Trading clips with phones around you, for free, with no account
keywords: [nearby, radar, share, phones, local network, airdrop, pull, import, clips, colors, name, free, party]
---

Nobody pairs while filming. Everyone shoots on their own phone, and afterward the phones in the room trade clips. Their clips fall into your film in the order they happened.

## Direct, and free

Nearby sharing is free and needs no account or plan. Clips go directly between phones over the local network, encrypted, and do not pass through a server. Each phone has to open the radar to be found, and stays findable until the app closes.

## Open the radar

Tap share, then **Nearby**. On a project with nothing to share yet, tap the download mark at the top left instead.

The first time, the app asks your name: it shows on the phones around you, so they know which one is yours. iOS also asks to use the local network. If you said no, see *Troubleshooting* (TS-1).

## Find people

A sweep goes around, and people nearby appear as colored dots with their names. Everyone found with clips is chosen for you, and their clips show under the radar so you can see what is coming.

Don't want someone's clips? Let them go from their row. Tap a dot to choose them again.

## Bring their clips in

Tap **Import**. Their clips come to you, into the project you are in. It does not send them yours: they do the same on their phone if they want your clips. Nothing lands on a phone that did not ask.

## Offer only some clips

Select the clips in the strip, tap share, then **Nearby**. The room sees only those.

## What goes with a clip

The clip and when it was filmed. Where it was filmed stays on your phone.