Send files from your phone to your computer

AirDrop only works between Apple devices. To get a photo or a PDF from a phone onto a Windows or Linux computer, or onto a Mac from an Android phone, the usual answers are a cable, emailing it to yourself, or a cloud drive. Here are two ways to do it from the browser instead.

Once: open the page on both devices

1. Open tosstome on the computer and on the phone.
2. If both are on the same Wi-Fi, each shows up in the other's Nearby list. Otherwise, press Create a code on one and type the 6 digits on the other.
3. Tap the computer on your phone, pick the files, and accept on the computer.

Files go straight between the two devices when the network allows it, and through a relay that keeps nothing when it does not.

Every day: keep an inbox on the computer

If you send from your phone to the same computer often, run the inbox once on the computer:

tosstome listen

It prints a link and a QR code. Scan it with your phone and add the page to your home screen. From then on, opening that page and picking files sends them to a folder on the computer, from any network, with nothing to open on the computer side. The link carries a secret key, so only people you give it to can send.

Good to know

• Both devices need to be online at the same moment. If the computer is asleep, nothing is sent and nothing is stored.
• The browser receiver keeps files in memory until you save them; for videos of several gigabytes, use the inbox, which writes straight to disk.
• Need to move a link or a bit of text rather than a file? Tap the device and use the message box instead. Sending text and links.
• Same Wi-Fi and fine with installing an app? LocalSend works without internet at all.

Related

• Transfer files from iPhone to a Windows PC
• Send files from Android to a PC without USB
• Send files from Android to a Mac
• Send text and links between your phone and computer
• Send files from your phone to a server, NAS or Raspberry Pi

Last checked 2026-10-28.

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