Pushbullet vs tosstome
Pushbullet is an account that connects your phone, browser and computer: push a link or a file to yourself, mirror notifications, text from the computer. tosstome does one part of that, moving files and text between devices, without an account and without storing anything.
Pushbullet Free and Pro
From pushbullet.com/pro (checked 2026-10-29):
| Pushbullet | Pushbullet Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Send files | up to 25 MB | up to 1 GB |
| Storage space | 2 GB | 100 GB |
| Send messages (SMS, WhatsApp and others) | 100 a month | Unlimited |
| Universal copy and paste | No | Yes |
| Optional end-to-end encryption | Yes | Yes |
| Price | Free | $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month |
Side by side
| Pushbullet Free | tosstome | |
|---|---|---|
| File size | 25 MB | No limit set |
| Files kept in an account | Yes, 2 GB storage | No, nothing is stored |
| Account | Yes | No |
| Send links | Yes | Yes, and text messages |
| Notification mirroring, SMS from the computer | Yes | No |
| Receiver offline | Kept in the account storage | Nothing is sent |
Which one to use
If you want notifications and texting on your computer, Pushbullet does things tosstome does not try to do. If you mostly push files and links to yourself, tosstome has no 25 MB limit and no account: keep the inbox page on your phone's home screen and files or text land in a folder on your computer.
What tosstome does
- Runs in the browser. Nothing to install on the sending side.
- Devices on the same network see each other automatically. On different networks, one device shows a 6-digit code and the other types it in.
- Files go device to device over WebRTC when the networks allow it. If a direct connection does not come up within a few seconds, they go through a relay on Cloudflare that forwards the bytes and keeps nothing.
- An optional command line tool,
tosstome listen, keeps an always-on inbox on a computer. It prints a link and QR code; open it on a phone and files land in a folder on that computer, with no browser open on the computer side. - Text messages and links travel the same way as files, with a Copy button on the receiving side.
- Nothing is stored. If the receiver is offline, nothing is sent.
What tosstome does not do (yet)
- The relay is protected by TLS between each device and Cloudflare, but it is not end-to-end encrypted yet. Direct WebRTC transfers are encrypted end to end by the browser (DTLS).
- A receiving browser keeps the file in memory until you save it, so very large files are better received with the command line tool, which writes straight to disk.
- Both sides must be online at the same time. There is no "upload now, download tomorrow".
- It is new. Browser-side device pairing and end-to-end encryption on the relay are still being built.
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- KDE Connect vs tosstome
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Last checked 2026-10-28.