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Syncthing. Period.
I love syncthing, its basically like a personal P2P cloud thats beginner friendly. It automatically syncs selected folders between any number of devices, but you need to have it installed on both devices. I have this set up to always sync my pictures, music and password vaults between my devices. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/
If you want to just transfer files and not keep them synchronized then i would recommend the file manager "Material Files" instead. It comes with a built in FTP server that you can use to access your phone over the local network from your PC. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/
Both are available on F-Droid and Google Play, but i recommend getting F-Droid if you dont have it yet. Its a great alternative store for open source apps. https://f-droid.org/en/
What OS do you have installed on your desktop/laptop?
Windows 11 on my PC.
Do you know what an FTP server is? If so then you can probably figure out how to use "Material Files" for this. Otherwise this might be a bit too complicated for me to explain right now.
If you figure it out, its really cool tho. Once set up you will basically have a "folder" in your windows file explorer that will show everything thats on your phone. You can then copy paste stuff between your PC and that folder(your phone)
I will look into that later as I have found Syncthing to be working great for me.
Oh nice, even better ^^
Agreed.
A great alternative that has selective Sync is Resilio. I find it to be heavy on my phone (because I have a massive media library and it keeps the database/index in ram).
But it lets me browse my media share anywhere, anytime (from the phone), and have it sync files to the phone as needed.
For everything else I use Syncthing-Fork on the phone, and SyncTrayzor on Windows.