Send a file from your phone to your computer without a cable

Three ways, in the browser or in the apps. None needs a cable or an account, and nothing has to be installed on the other side. Pick the one that fits.

1. Send nearby: same room, nothing stored

Open share.ninja on the phone and on the computer. Devices around you show up in the Nearby tab on their own: same desk, same office, same café. On the phone, pick the files, tap the computer's name, send. The computer asks once whether to accept, and the files arrive. Keep both tabs open until it is done; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Works between iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, in any direction. With the apps, devices also find each other over Bluetooth, so it works with no Wi-Fi at all. If the computer does not show up, check that it is set to visible in its Nearby tab.

2. Send a link: the other side can be anywhere, or asleep

On the phone, open share.ninja, pick the files, and you have a link. Get it to the computer any way you already use: paste it into a chat you have open on both, or send it to your own email. Open the link on the computer. The files are there to browse, preview and download, only what you need.

The files are encrypted on the phone before anything is uploaded, and the key travels inside the link, never to us. The link lives 24 hours, 48 hours if you sign in. Stop sharing at any time, and it dies everywhere at once.

3. Sign in on both: for the thing you do every day

Sign in on the phone and on the computer, in the browser or in the app on either side. Every share you make on one appears on the other on its own; there is no link to carry.

The other way round: computer to phone

On the computer, pick the files. The ready share shows a QR code next to the link. Point the phone's camera at it, and the share opens in the phone's browser. Or send nearby, exactly as above.

Big files

There is no size limit per share. Without an account, your live links can hold 5 GB in total; 10 GB with a free account. The computer starts downloading while the phone is still uploading, and an interrupted download picks up where it left off. Nearby stores nothing at all, so size does not count against anything.