Join by joaoapps

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About this app

Join allows you to easily do stuff remotely on your Android and PC devices like SMS, notifications, clipboard, and much more!

As Featured on:
☑ Android Police: In short: this app is powerful http://goo.gl/MbEi96
☑ Android Headlines: Join clearly has a lot to offer http://goo.gl/Bwvivq
☑ AndroidGuys: Best thing since Pushbullet http://goo.gl/zSYUaj
And more!!

☑ 30 day trial - one time $4.99 payment to unlock
Try the app for free for a month, then unlock it with a one time payment to continue using it

☑ Notifications
Receive notifications from Android and interact with them on any device using your Google account. For example, you can reply to a Whatsapp message from your PC. Notifications use the standard Windows Action Center with the Windows 10 app. Make sure to enable the Notification Sync settings in the Android app.

☑ SMS, MMS and Group messages from any web browser
Be it Android, PC, or even iOS, you can send SMS messages from any web browser with your Google account: http://joaoapps.com/join-sms-from-anything-with-a-browser/

☑ Clipboard Sharing
You can manually or automatically share your clipboard between devices. On Android you get a handy clipboard bubble for easy sharing. Think chat heads for your clipboard

☑ Google Assistant
Use Join with Google Assistant and Tasker to control anything anywhere: https://joaoapps.com/google-assistant-ifttt-join-tasker-awesomeness/

☑ Remote Writing
Write stuff directly in any Android app from your PC or any other device. To do this, Join uses an accessibility service on your device. Important: this service is optional and is ONLY used to remotely write text on your device. It doesn't collect or share any personal data.

☑ Open web pages remotely
Quickly open a web page on another device. For example, you can send a page from your PC to your phone or from your phone to your PC

☑ Files
Send files from any device to any other device and optionally automatically open the file when it arrives.

☑ Installing Apps Remotely
On your request, Join allows you to send an an APK (app file) from your PC and receive it on your Android device where the prompt to install it will show up! Note: installing APKs remotely requires the REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES permission.

☑ File Browsing
With the Join Desktop app, you can remotely browse all files on your Android device from your PC: https://joaoapps.com/join/desktop. Note: This feature requires the permission to Manage All Files on your device, as it functions just like a remote file browser/manager.

☑ Screenshots
Get a quick screenshot from your Android device on your other devices

☑ Wallpaper
Quickly set your Android or PC wallpaper while browsing the web in Chrome

☑ Location
Find your Android device by getting its location or making it ring really loud

☑ Deep Tasker Integration
Make Join your own by pushing stuff from Tasker, changing any of the app's settings and querying your devices. You can totally make your own customized Join app if you want :)

☑ End-to-end encryption
Join can send any sensitive data encrypted if you set a password

☑ Google Drive as storage
Your personal data (like your SMS messages for example) is kept privately on your Google Drive. Shared files are also kept there so that you can easily access them later.


Join uses a server on Google App Engine (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/) to optimize and simplify message pushing from device to device.

This app uses Accessibility services

Ratings and reviews

Great when it works....which is sometimes. I really want to like this app. The developer has made a big effort and it has lots of great capabilities. When it works, it's awesome. Unfortunately, it often does not work. It may be that Google has just made it too hard to do this as Android OS has progressed. I use this app a lot but I have no expectation of success and have to constantly check. Steve Hogan wrote a review in 2021. Sadly my experience now in 2023 is very much similar to then.

Question: can you make a simple Apple watch app that displays join's notifications and also (the hardest part) when you dismiss it on the watch it is cleared from all devices? As far as I know, there is no way of sync an android device with an Apple watch, so if you can make it, you can profit from it. Thanks! --- Edit: Thanks for the answer. The Apple watch is not compatible with android. There are complicated ways to connect it but your app seems like an easier choice. Thanks anyway!

I would give a better rating if the chrome extension didn't constantly change names. I have renamed it numerous times because it keeps changing its own name. Until that is fixed, I can't reasonably give it 5 ⭐. The features are irrelevant if you don't know the current name of the device your sending it to. This is been doing this for a while, but I just hadn't updated my reading until now, because I hoped it would stop acting up. I'm tempted to just switch back to Pushbullet. It never did this.

What's new

- Updated FCM Library from legacy to v1. Let me know if anything breaks.