How to use Pushbullet, the app that lets you send files and messages from one device to another — on any platform

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Pushbullet is one of the best apps available on any platform that lets you share files, links, and messages with friends and the devices you own.

We listed Pushbullet as one of the very best apps you can find on Android, but its beauty is actually hidden in the app's compatibility with all the other major operating systems too, such as iOS, macOS, and Windows.

The fact that you can download and use it almost everywhere makes sharing stuff from one device to another — be it photos, links, text, files, or what have you — easy and fast.

You can think of it as a handy group chat where the participants are your multiple devices, if you will: Pushbullet has a "universal clipboard," which makes you find all of your pushes from any of your devices whenever you need it.

This adds an extra layer of user-friendliness very few other apps can tout. Let's take a closer look:

The browser extension is possibly Pushbullet's handiest feature

One of the platforms Pushbullet lives in is the web. It lets you share links, images, and files you find on the internet by "pushing" them to one of your other devices (or a friend).

On browsers like Chrome and Opera, you can download an extension, like the one you see here at the top.

Every time you click on it this little window will appear

If you click on it, a little window will open.

There, you can see the four tabs: People, Devices, SMS, and Notifications.

Keep track of all your conversations inside the clipboard

The four tabs are pretty self-explanatory.

This is the Devices tab: it shows you all the devices you have signed in with Pushbullet, as well as a chat-like list of all the things you've pushed from one device to the other.

Here you can see that I have pushed a picture: it shows up in the "Google Pixel XL" chat, as I have transferred the .jpg file over to my phone, but also inside the "All Devices" tab, which shows you everything you push yourself from and to any device.

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