You probably often find yourself sending things back and forth between your laptop and your smartphone to get work done. Chances are that you find it a pain in the butt to accomplish.
As an example, whenever I attend events, I often use my Phone’s camera to grab shots for use in articles. To move the images to my laptop, I typically transfer them into my Dropbox or Pushbullet app, and open then open them in the corresponding folder or app on my Laptop. Not too difficult, but not exactly seamless either.
Which is why I was really excited when I saw mobile app from startup Tinker,called Pasteasy. On its website is the bold claim, “Copy on the phone, paste on the computer […] lightning fast […] super simple & convenient.”
Naturally, I had to give it a shot. As proudly proclaimed on the website, founder Neeraj Jhanji says that Pasteasy would allow me to instantly copy and paste text and photos directly between my devices. All I had to do was install the respective apps on my computer and Phone, and pair them up via wifi – no login or registration necessary.
Pairing is done by using the smartphone to scan a barcode on the desktop app, as shown below.
Once the devices are paired, any image or text that is copied on one device will appear right away on the other.
Copying image or text on laptop would cause it to appear on my Pasteasy Phone app, as well as on the smartphone’s clipboard for immediate pasting. Piece of cake.
Pasteasy is up to 30 times faster than alternatives, and this is achieved by skipping the cloud altogether.
The downside of that, however, is that it’s easy to forget that the app is constantly running in the background. After a few hours of work, you would realizethat the app on your phone was deluged with a series of text and images that you had copied on your laptop without the intention of transferring them via Pasteasy – thankfully up to a preset limit of 20 items – and vice versa. To remedy this, turned off the “Save Incoming Photo” option on your Phone app. There is, however, no similar function on the desktop version.One disadvantage that Pasteasy has compared to its competitors is that its smartphone app is not free.
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