Apps for Students: Pushbullet

Download apps and extensions from:
https://www.pushbullet.com/apps for free!

Pushbullet allows you to send files/links/photos/notes between devices and web browsers using apps and extensions. You can send them to yourself or to your friends if they also use Pushbullet.

Examples of using Pushbullet include:

Finding a website you like on your phone and you want to view it on your computer.
You think of a good idea when you’re out and you want to be reminded of it when you get back to your computer.
You take a photo with your phone and want to edit it on your computer.
You start working on a document on the train home and want to continue working on it on your computer.

And it’s not just about sending stuff from your phone to your computer as this video from Pushbullet shows:

A useful feature of Pushbullet is that you can send SMS (text) messages from your computer via your phone. Your contacts list on your phone will appear in the ‘To’ box when you are about to send a message. Additionally, Pushbullet can ‘push’ notifications from your phone to your computer. You can disable this feature if you don’t like it or mute specific apps you don’t want to be notified about. If the notification is about a message you’ve received, you can reply to it using your computer by clicking ‘reply’ in the notification. Currently this works with WhatsApp, Telegram, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and Line. These features mean you can communicate using messages without having to change between your computer and your phone. Additionally, it means you can use the larger keyboard for your computer rather than a fiddly phone keyboard!

Pushbullet allows you to subscribe to a selection of channels. These allow you to stay up-to-date about something you are interested in. An example of this is updates from the Pushbullet blog.

The speed that Pushbullet operates is dependent on the speed of your internet connection. A slow connection will mean that you will need to wait a while for files to be uploaded and downloaded from the cloud.

Another thing to consider is you can only send one photo/file at a time between your phone and your computer. This means it could be time consuming if you wish to send many files as you’d have to select them all individually.