PhoneBridge

Free while we’re in preview

Get PhoneBridge

Send a file to your phone by opening a web address. No cable, no app, no account.

The Mac button is for Apple Silicon. On an older Intel Mac, get this one instead.

One file, both ways. Double-click it for the window. Run the same file from a command prompt with arguments and it behaves as the command-line tool, because the engine is inside it. Nothing else to download and nothing to keep beside it.

Early preview. The window has been built and run, but not yet on a real Windows PC or Mac, so expect rough edges. The engine underneath it is fully tested.

One file, no installer
Reaches only what you point it at
Source code published below

Free while in preview. It isn’t signed yet, so Windows or macOS will ask you to confirm the first time you open it. here is exactly what to click. At launch, PhoneBridge is included in every plan along with the rest of the range.

How the hand-off goes

phonebridge send report.pdf starts a small HTTP server on your computer and prints a URL. Open it in your phone’s browser and the file downloads. Range requests work, so a large file that drops out resumes rather than starting over. Point it at a directory instead and you get an index page with a link per file.

It works backwards too. phonebridge receive ~/Inbox serves a plain upload form; choose a file on the phone and it lands in that folder, with the name and size printed as it arrives.

--once shuts the server down after the first completed transfer, which is usually what you want. Otherwise it runs until Ctrl+C.

Two things to watch

The LAN address it prints is a best guess, the first non-loopback IPv4 it finds. With a VPN or several adapters that guess can be wrong, so pass --host with the address your phone can reach.

While it’s up, the server is unauthenticated. Anyone on the same network can reach the URL. That’s fine for a minute on your own Wi-Fi and a bad idea on café or office guest networks.

There’s no MTP or iTunes-protocol transfer here. It’s HTTP over the network you’re both already on.

Questions about PhoneBridge

What does PhoneBridge do?

PhoneBridge puts a web address on the screen that your own phone can open over your Wi-Fi. Type it into your phone and either the file starts downloading, or — going the other way — your phone offers you a button to send a photo or a file back here. Either way the address closes itself as soon as one transfer has finished, and this window says so. Nothing goes near the internet, nothing is uploaded to anybody's service, and a file arriving from your phone is only ever added to the folder you chose: nothing already in there is replaced, whatever it is called.

Will PhoneBridge delete my files?

No. PhoneBridge writes what you asked for into a place you name, and leaves everything else you have exactly as it was.

Does PhoneBridge send anything over the internet?

PhoneBridge reaches what you point it at, and nothing else. Doing that is the job. There is no account, nothing is reported back to Techlosoft, and there is no analytics in it.

Does PhoneBridge run on a Mac?

Yes. There are builds for Apple Silicon and for Intel Macs, as well as for Windows and Linux, one file each, with no installer and nothing to uninstall.

Is PhoneBridge free?

Yes, while Techlosoft is in preview: no account, no card, and nothing switched off. Later it is part of a plan covering all 100 programs rather than sold on its own, and anything you download now carries on working.

Reading on the job itself

How to send a file from your phone to your computer Run a small web server on the computer and open its address on the phone. The file goes straight across you...

The rest of Phone Bridge

The gap between a phone and a desk. Send one thing across the Wi-Fi, keep two libraries in step, empty a camera roll, or move to a new handset.

PocketSync

Vertical Ready

Both phones got used since they last matched. This works out what belongs where.

DeviceDock

Pro Ready

Files phone photos by the date the shutter fired, not the date you copied them.

MovePhone

Team Ready

Move a phone's files onto the new handset and prove every byte arrived.

Advanced & technical details Command-line builds, source code, checksums and a recorded session, for developers and IT teams

A working CLI prototype of the "get a file onto your phone" core: a local-network HTTP bridge to send a file/folder to your phone's browser or receive an upload from it, no cables/cloud/app needed. Real iPhone/Android device-protocol transfer (MTP/AFC) and messages/photos/music export need platform-specific device libraries and are on the roadmap.

Naming status

Working name only — brand verdict **AVOID** (Very High). Collision: PhoneBridge. Rename completely.

What it draws on

Existing paid software whose best ideas shaped this program: iMazing, Wondershare MobileTrans, TouchCopy, Droid Transfer.

Command line

There is nothing extra to install. The program you download is the command-line tool as well: give it arguments instead of double-clicking it and it runs as one, with its output on your terminal. The standalone builds below are the same engine on its own, for machines where you would rather not ship a window at all.

phonebridge - local-network HTTP file bridge (no cables, no cloud)

Usage:
  phonebridge send <path> [--port 0] [--once] [--host <addr>]
  phonebridge receive <destdir> [--port 0] [--once] [--host <addr>]
  phonebridge help

Commands:
  send      Serve a file or directory over HTTP for a phone to download.
  receive   Serve an upload form over HTTP for a phone to upload files to.

Run "phonebridge send -h" or "phonebridge receive -h" for command help.

Recorded from the shipped binary, not written by hand.

Windows (amd64) macOS (Apple Silicon) macOS (Intel) Linux (amd64)

Source

Every file the program is built from:

console.go · console_test.go · guided.go · main.go · receive_test.go

SHA-256 checksums · build instructions & scope notes · full build plan