Every feature, free and Pro, and exactly where to find it on your phone and your Mac. Lots of it works without ever opening the app.
PingDrop for Android from Google Play, and PingDrop for Mac from this website (macOS 14 or later). On the phone, About › PingDrop for Mac sends you the link.
On the Mac: menu bar › Pair New Phone. On the phone: Get started › Scan the QR — with PingDrop, not the camera app.
Notification access on the phone; Local Network and Bluetooth on the Mac. That's it — they find each other from now on.
Everything here comes with PingDrop at no cost, on both your phone and your Mac.
How your phone and Mac find each other — and stay connected.
On the same Wi-Fi everything runs at full speed. Away from it, Bluetooth keeps notifications, calls and the clipboard working. PingDrop switches by itself.
No shared Wi-Fi? Connect your Mac to your phone's hotspot and PingDrop uses it at full speed. Wi-Fi without internet works too.
After a Wi-Fi drop, your Mac sleeping, or Bluetooth going off and on, PingDrop reconnects on its own. While the Mac sleeps, the phone waits instead of draining either battery.
When Wi-Fi isn't connecting, PingDrop tells you why — different networks, Local Network switched off, and so on.
If another app on your phone or Mac is using what PingDrop needs, it picks another way in by itself.
Pair once and they find each other from then on. Codes expire after 2 minutes, for safety, and each step is shown on both sides.
No account, no sign-in, no cloud. Your phone talks straight to your Mac, encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key that only your two devices have.
PingDrop opens at login, so your phone can reconnect after a restart without you opening anything.
Connects only to the Mac it was paired with — even with another PingDrop Mac nearby or on the same Wi-Fi.
Your phone's notifications, on the Mac you're already looking at.
Messages, calls and alerts appear as real macOS notifications, with each app's own icon.
Pick exactly which apps come through. Everything else stays on the phone.
Close a notification on your Mac and it clears on your phone too — and the other way round.
See who's calling and handle the call without picking up your phone.
A call card shows who's calling. Answer, decline, mute, switch to speaker or end the call from there. You still talk on the phone.
Calls from WhatsApp and similar apps show up on the Mac too.
Calls you make show “Calling…” and then a timer. A call you didn't pick up leaves a “Missed call” on the Mac.
On some phones Android needs one extra permission for the Answer button to work every time.
Allow Phone calls once and answer, decline or end calls from your Mac, whatever phone app you use. Google's Phone app gives the most controls — mute and speaker too.
× hides the card and the call carries on — it sits in the menu bar with its timer. Click it for End, Mute or Speaker.
Copy on one, paste on the other.
Anything you copy on the Mac is ready to paste on the phone. No buttons.
Android only lets an app read the clipboard while you're using it, so sending from the phone is one tap.
Everything you've copied on either device. Tap an item to put it back on both.
Text copied from a password manager is never synced.
Up to 100,000 characters over Wi-Fi and 8,000 over Bluetooth.
Photos, documents and whole folders — both ways, at Wi-Fi speed.
In Photos, Files, Chrome, WhatsApp — anywhere with a Share button. No need to open PingDrop first.
Pick photos, videos or any file and send them to your Mac.
PingDrop zips the folder and sends it in one go. Folders from the Mac work too.
Drag files onto the PingDrop icon in your Mac's menu bar to send them to the phone.
Right-click any file or folder in Finder.
Use the Share button in Finder, Photos, Safari and other Mac apps.
The other side asks before anything arrives. Live progress on both ends, and you can cancel from either.
Everything you've sent and received, with Open and Show in Finder on the Mac.
On the phone: your Download folder. On the Mac: Downloads › PingDrop.
Free transfers go up to 2 GB each, and your first few bigger ones are allowed too.
Open a link on the other device in one tap.
Share any link and it opens in your Mac's browser.
Sends the link you copied — or asks for one. Your phone shows it as a notification; tap to open.
Share text or a link to PingDrop and it's on the Mac's clipboard, ready to paste.
Ring either device from the other.
Rings loudly for up to 30 seconds, even on silent. Tap Stop on the phone when you've found it.
Plays a sound on the Mac so you can find it.
Choose what each device plays — a built-in sound or your own.
Your Mac locks itself when you walk away with your phone. Pick a distance, or Calibrate it at your desk. It won't lock while you're typing, and unlocking pauses it until your phone is back.
Each device's battery, on the other.
Level and charging, always up to date.
Right in the menu bar, plus charging state in the panel.
PingDrop without opening PingDrop.
Send Clipboard and Ring my Mac, one swipe down from anywhere.
A 2×1 widget with your Mac's battery that rings the Mac with one tap.
Your phone's battery and connection on the desktop, with Ring (Stop while it rings), Send Files and Open Link.
“Ring my phone with PingDrop”, Stop Ringing, Phone Battery, Send Files and Open Link — in Siri, Spotlight and the Shortcuts app.
The little things.
Follows your phone, or pick one. Haptics can be switched off too.
A glass look across the whole Mac app.
One handy shortcut at a time on the Home screen.
The phone updates from Google Play; the Mac updates itself in one click.
Send the Mac download link to yourself — copy it, share it or email it.
Share PingDrop with someone who has a Mac.
Copies a diagnostics report you can paste into an email to us.
Default, Menu or Bubbles — with Liquid Glass on or off.
If the phone stops answering, the Mac says what on the phone can close PingDrop (battery optimisation, background restriction) and how to fix it.
This page, from the phone.
A connection log to send with a problem report — no messages or notification text in it.
One purchase on Google Play, no subscription. It unlocks these on your phone and your Mac, and comes back by itself on a new phone or a reinstall.
Ads disappear from the phone app.
No 2 GB limit — send files of any size.
Answer WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS and other messages right from the notification on your Mac.
Quiet hours, and Normal, Quiet or Priority for each app — Priority always shows, even during quiet hours.
30 days of your phone's notifications, kept only on this Mac. Search it, copy text from it.
Use your phone's camera in FaceTime, Zoom, Meet and other video apps, in 720p, 1080p or 2K. Flip, mirror and turn the picture from the Mac.
Take the shot on your phone and it opens on the Mac, already copied.
See what's playing on your phone — Spotify, YouTube, podcasts — and play, pause or skip from the Mac.
Your Mac locks itself when you walk away with your phone — never while you're typing.
Every new file in a folder you pick — like Screenshots — goes to your Mac by itself.
Images you copy on the Mac land on your phone. To send one from the phone, use Push clipboard.
Upcoming events from your Mac's calendars, as reminders on your phone.
Get told when either device drops to — or charges to — a level you choose.
Files from your own devices start right away — no Accept to tap.
Pick the folder on each device.
Your Mac's battery plus Send files, Clipboard and Ring Mac, one tap each.
Enter it on the phone and Pro turns on for your Mac too.
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Free on both. No account, no cloud.
