Send from Mac to Android — text, links and files, in the browser

You're on your Mac and you need something on your Android phone — a link to open on the go, a paragraph to drop into a message, a PDF to carry with you. Apple's hand-off tools won't reach Android, and Google's Quick Share has never shipped a macOS app, so the usual move is to email or message yourself and dig the attachment back out on the phone.

pastehere does it directly. Open a room on the Mac, type the six-digit code into your phone's browser, and anything you copy on the Mac is waiting on the Android phone — links open with a tap, text goes to the clipboard, files download to the phone.

How to do it in three steps

1. 1

   Open a room on your Mac

   Go to pastehere.app in any browser and create a room. You'll get a six-digit code — no sign-up, nothing to install.

2. 2

   Enter the code on your Android phone

   Open the same site on your Android phone and type the six-digit code to join. The two devices agree on a key directly, so the server never sees it.

3. 3

   Copy on one, paste on the other

   Add text, a link, a screenshot or a file on either device and it appears on the other within a second. The room stays open until you destroy it.

Everything is encrypted in your browser with AES-256 before it leaves the device. Devices agree on the room key through a PAKE exchange over the 6-digit code, so the key never reaches the server — it only ever stores ciphertext.

What you can send

Anything that fits in a room moves both ways between your Mac and your Android phone:

• TextNotes, passwords, addresses, long passages — no length limit.
• LinksOpen a tab on the other device with one tap.
• ImagesScreenshots and photos, kept at full quality.
• FilesPDFs, archives, any file type — up to 15 MB each, 100 MB per room.

The native gap from Mac to Android

Universal Clipboard and AirDrop only see other Apple devices. Quick Share covers Android, Windows and ChromeOS but not macOS. So nothing Apple or Google ships will move a clipboard or a file from a Mac to an Android phone. The fallbacks are cloud storage or a chat-to-self, both of which need accounts on both ends and a round-trip through someone else's server.

If the file is something you want to keep in the cloud anyway, Drive or Dropbox is fine. For a quick hand-off you don't want to file away, a browser room is quicker and the contents are encrypted end-to-end instead of parked in a cloud account.