Mive

Four steps to get started

How to use Mive

Five minutes, once. After that, your files go wherever you go.

Get set up

Install Mive on your computer

Windows or Mac. One installer, two minutes — it's what turns your computer into your own drive.

Create your account

Free, in a few seconds: on first launch, click Sign in, then create your account on the page that opens. It's what links your computer to your other devices.

Add this computer, then pick your folders

Give it a name, then add the folders Mive can see. Nothing else on your computer is reachable.

The Mive app on the Add this computer to your Mive screen: a Computer name field and a Create this computer button.

Day to day

The folders you pick are your drive

Whatever sits in those folders on your PC is exactly what you see in Mive — same files, same names. It's your own disk, reachable from anywhere.

Windows File Explorer open on a folder named “Just a PC Folder”, showing Documents, Photos and Projects plus holiday.webm, lake.jpg, report.pdf and sunset.jpg.
The Mive app showing the very same files as the Windows folder — same names, same order.

The folders you add on your disk are your drive — here, one called “Just a PC Folder”, the very same files.

Reach it from anywhere

Open your drive from your phone or the web. The files are the same ones, served live off your PC — photos, documents, video.

The Mive app on a phone, inside the “Just a PC Folder” folder, showing the same files and a Computers, Shared, My shares, Account tab bar.
A photo opened full-screen in the Mive phone app, served live from the PC.

Share by link, or with one person

Send a link anyone can open — no account needed — or share a single file or a whole folder with someone as Viewer or Editor. You stay in control and can revoke access any time.

The Mive share dialog for the Photos folder: Your Friend added as Editor, and General access set to anyone with the link as Viewer, with a Copy link button.

They just click

How they open it depends on how you shared: a link anyone can use opens the file or folder straight away — no account, no app. Share with someone who's on Mive, and it lands in their Shared with me, ready to open live from your PC.

The Mive app from a recipient who has an account, showing items under Shared with me.

Add files and preview, anywhere

Import a file or make a new folder from any device, and preview photos, PDFs and video right inside the app.

The Mive phone app inside “Just a PC Folder” with the add menu open: Import a file, New folder, Sort by.
A PDF previewed inside the Mive phone app.

Good to know

  • Mive can only ever reach the folders you pick — the rest of your PC stays invisible, enforced by your operating system.
  • Reachable whenever your PC is on and awake — like a home server.
  • Free — your PC does the work, so there's almost nothing to host.
  • People you share with never need an account.

See exactly what we store in our Privacy Policy.

Turn your PC into your private drive.

Free forever. Two minutes to set up.

Download for Windows

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