Transfer
Scan a QR code with your phone camera, check the code and pick photos or videos. They arrive straight on your Mac over your Wi‑Fi, end-to-end encrypted.
Interactive simulation
Simulation of the flow. In the real app files travel over your local network.
Mac
Phone
Open the camera
The pairing server…
Seesthat two devices want to connect and technical details to find each other on the network.
Never seesyour photos, videos, file names or the QR key. It stores nothing.
How it works
In Make Mac Better → Transfer.
A page opens on the phone, nothing to install. Compare the code.
Files arrive on the Mac and are checked one by one.
Transfer
No. Make Mac Better’s server only introduces the two devices (like passing on a phone number): it exchanges technical connection details, never the files. Then phone and Mac talk directly over your Wi‑Fi through an encrypted channel (WebRTC/DTLS). We use no relay servers: if both are not on the same network, the transfer fails instead of being routed over the internet.
The QR carries the Mac’s fingerprint and a secret key that are never sent to the server (they live in the part of the link browsers do not transmit). The phone rejects any Mac with another fingerprint and the Mac rejects any phone without the key. You also approve the pairing on screen.
Each file is checked with SHA‑256 on arrival and saved with its name in Downloads in one click.
Shortcuts
With a Windows keyboard: Ctrl = ⌃, Alt = ⌥, Shift = ⇧, Windows = ⌘. All can be changed in the app.
Pairing needs the internet for a moment; files go over your local network.
Yes, from the phone browser.
Up to 256 MB per file when sending to the phone.
€19.99 forever. No subscription. Everything runs on your Mac.
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