Pushbullet for Mac

Pushbullet gains support for iOS and has launched a dedicated Mac app . Here’s the basic rundown of what Pushbullet can do: 1. Forward notifications — including ones from third party apps — from your phone to your Mac (a Windows client is available, but in beta). 2. You can silence alerts on an app-by-app basis, in case you don’t want Facebook alerts popping up endlessly. 3. You can dismiss phone notifications from your computer 4. Send links/files from your desktop to your phone (or vice versa) with just a click or two. It’s a pretty slick way to copy/paste between devices. 5. On iOS, it uses Bluetooth LE to make sure you’re actually relatively near your computer when it’s forwarding alerts. If you walk away from your computer or lend it to a buddy, your notifications automatically stop forwarding.

For me the most useful addition is the integration as a iOS share extension! Finally no more detour via copy content, switch app, paste into pushbullet to share to the computer. Still have to test the Bluetooth functionality, but if it works as well as the cloud based solution, I'd be willing to say that this is what Airdrop should have been for years.

I've been using the Pushbullet Chrome extension for a while to send links (often App Store links of products I find interesting on Product Hunt) from my Mac to my phone. The Mac app is a nice addition but I'm not sure it necessary, tbh.

I was very excited to be able to solve this problem, but it's important to note the feature only works on Bluetooth. I keep bluetooth off to save battery, so this won't really work for me.

The design really needs some love. It feels way too custom on OSX. Other than that it's a great service.

@rrhoover why would I use this instead of a conversation with myself in iMessage? An app I already have installed and generally running in the background? Just curious. I like push bullet but realized messages app works equally well. I never want to restrict which device I share a link with..