Real recordings - not a mock-up
Watch the actual drive.
Every clip below is an unedited terminal recording of the real Swarmfile engine - the same binary we ship. Nothing is re-enacted. Scrub them, replay them, copy the commands straight out.
The whole idea in 30 seconds
Open a file. Don’t download it.
A machine joins a shared project and opens a file it has never seen. It appears instantly - browsing a project costs no disk. Scrub to the middle, read a megabyte, and a megabyte moves.
More, all of it real
On-demand byte-range streaming
Listing is free. Reading is proportional.
A machine that has never seen the file lists the project - no bytes move, it's all metadata. Then it reads one megabyte from the middle, and about one megabyte moves. Not the file.
Peer-to-peer over the local network
LAN-first, and it survives a dead machine.
Three machines share one drive. A save on one appears on the others within seconds, and the bytes come from a peer across the office - not the cloud. Then a machine dies and the file is still there.
Degrades to an error, never a hang
The hub goes down. The drive keeps working.
With the control plane offline, a cached file still reads in full and a never-fetched one fails at once instead of hanging. Reconnect, and it's simply back.
Durable, non-blocking write queue
Saves return at local-disk speed.
A 48 MB save returns first - with hundreds of blocks still queued behind it. The application never waits for the upload; the queue drains on its own.
Content-verified NAS import
Start from the library you already have.
Point it at an existing NAS share. One command imports it - reading only, never writing back - verifying every file by content on the way in. Then it's just the drive, on any machine.
Headless, version-pinned workflows
Pin a render to an exact version.
A headless node signs in with a project-scoped key, forks a branch pinned to a committed tag, and hydrates the whole scope before the job - so no frame is a network round-trip. Artists keep moving main; the render stays frozen.
Run it yourself
No sandbox, no reset - the real client, on your machine, with a 7-day trial. Nothing charged until day 7.