Pushbullet - SMS on PC

- August 28, 2016

Everyone

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Offers in-app purchases

( 163,613)

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Description

Pushbullet is "the app you never knew you needed", according to CNET. Here's why:

Stay Connected
• Conveniently send and receive SMS messages from your computer
• Reply to messages from many popular apps including WhatsApp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger
• Easily share links and files between your devices, or with friends

Never Miss A Notification
• See all of your phone's notifications on your computer, including phone calls
• Dismiss a notification on your computer and it goes away on your phone too
• Use Pushbullet Channels to subscribe to timely notifications about things you care about

Save Time
• Text from your computer using your keyboard instead of grabbing your phone
• The easiest way to get a link or file onto your phone to open or share
• Deal with notifications on your computer as they arrive

"Pushbullet Is a Fantastic App Every Phone Should Have" - Gizmodo

"TNW’s Apps of the Year: PushBullet for Android" - TNW

★ Secure: Protect your notifications and SMS with end-to-end encryption
★ Used by millions of people and counting
★ Translated into over a dozen languages by an awesome group of our own users

See all the places Pushbullet is available: https://www.pushbullet.com/apps

Reviews

4.5

163,613 total

5 117,859

4 30,407

3 6,848

2 2,932

1 5,567

Robert Sale

Can't live without it I do software programming for a living but I'm also a father, so I have to have my phone nearby incase anything goes awry back home. Having the ability to see notifications and respond to text messages in real-time using my full-size computer keyboard is the single greatest invention of mankind. I shave probably an hour off texting just using a keyboard, which is an hour I can spend making more money. Ca-ching!

D. Patrick Michael

Love this app! Comes in handy so often! Minor issue though, but group SMS acts funny when you receive the mirrored SMS. When you click the notification it usually takes you to the sender's conversation rather than the group conversation. It also doesn't display the preview text on them more often than not. Here's hoping you can fix this behavior!

shashank medoji

Made my life easy I often fetch things on office system, then later when i need them on my personal pc or phone...this is the app and features i look for. Awesome idea and features guys...thanks for the apps...n best part, we can share any kind of file...n it downloads automatically...n when watching movie in lappy with headset on me...its tough to hear phones ringtone...and again this app saves me by notification of call...totally i am love with this app...

Luke Woolley

From 5 to 2 stars. Cool idea, but you took a previously free service and now charge for it. So now I just use the notification sync that's built into Windows 10. It's free and still allows me to send things between PC and an Android phone, as well as text from my computer. Goodbye Pushbullet :(

Bradley Hopkins

The app you never knew you needed This is one of those apps you might not ever think to get, but once you have it you wonder how you ever got along with it. It is very nice to be able read and even send SMS from my laptop and it makes for a very convenient way to copy and paste from my laptop to my phone.

Ashton Whitcomb

Works pretty well. Only downsides: 1) reading a message in the desktop app does not mark as read on my phone. Please add this feature! 2) Syncing messages is a bit slow (not as zippy as fb messenger or hangouts) I have the pro version

User reviews

Robert Sale September 19, 2016

D. Patrick Michael September 14, 2016

shashank medoji September 5, 2016

Luke Woolley August 29, 2016

Bradley Hopkins August 29, 2016

Ashton Whitcomb September 7, 2016

James Barton September 24, 2016

Lifesaver As a young adult I would always be picking my phone up to check notifications even during hectic work hours. It got to the point of my final warning before I found Pushbullet. Since setting it up, I've been able to keep up to date without taking my eyes off of my work and I can identify which notifications I need to respond to. In the process I've found myself less attached to my phone and more productive as a result.

James Peers August 29, 2016

Disappointing Disappointing to sees them follow the same old model of getting users used to features only to ultimately block them behind so called 'pro' features. This will be the slow demise of pushbullet. A one off price would be acceptable but a subscription??

Carl Capasso September 18, 2016

Used to to work, but they messed up something and am not able to send text messages from my computer anymore without having Pushbullet open on my phone. Not happy. Look for something else. *************************** Recently this app has started to work OK with my Note 3. So, I upgraded my review from 1 star to 4. Still a bit sluggish, but may be my phone and not Pushbullet. Useful app!

Nikolay Zagorov September 1, 2016

messaging history bug never solved so far please fix the messaging history on a Computer. It's just not possible to scroll the full history back and find some old messages. The messages are missing and /or are mixed up with other messages. Scrolling back works only on a phone correctly. History search is a MUST but still missing!

Bryan Fong September 5, 2016

cool if you pay for it, but pretty damn annoying if you don't. instead of just making the paid features unavailable, they make it look like it's available until you try to use them, then they open up a separate window to tell you how great it is. I absolutely understand the need for them to make money, but it's just too damn annoying. 5 star product, with 2 stars off for how in your face annoying it is. it's bad enough that I'm considering just uninstalling it instead of putting up with it any more, in spite of how useful it can be. mighty text is good enough on its own, don't really need this one.

Jack Disselhorst August 31, 2016

Seems inconsistent At times, push bullet pushes notifications to my laptop flawlessly. At other times I get none at all and don't know why. The interface seems needlessly cluttered with too many tabs and settings. It's a good service but could be streamlined and made easier to use consistently.

Joel Niemeyer September 18, 2016

Really love it I use the SMS feature more than anything else, but also to toss links between devices once in a while. I do love it, but sorry, guys. I'd pay a flat fee for it, but it's not worth $5 a month.

anxiousape ‎ September 4, 2016

Share between browser to phone, vice versa, and MUCH more I started using it as a replacement for Google's chrome add-on Chrome to Phone and Firefox's FoxToPhone, both obsolete. Pushbullet works both ways. And that's only the beginning. I managed to send an SMS via the phone from my pc cmd line using it's API. Pretty cool.

Casey Herkimer August 29, 2016

Fantastic but Expensive The app works as advertised and functions well. However, Pushbullet appears to have paywalled even more features, after they famously paywalled about half of its features last year (I guess not enough people signed up for Pushbullet Pro this time around). Just about everything in this app used to be free.

Marcel Malke Stigliani September 7, 2016

Awesome It is the best app for the category. The paid version is just way too expensive though. If i used if more often, I would run out of pc messages real quick.

Paul Turner September 15, 2016

Almost awesome An excellent app let down by the price of the pro version. No one is going to £45 a year for a monthly subscription when WhatsApp cost £0.89 per year! It is useful and works flawlessly, when the price is more reasonable I will happily upgrade.

Colin Ackerley September 25, 2016

Used to be fantastic... This app used to be great when it didn't charge for the main feature it advertises, cross platform messaging. Now it does. I wouldn't mind paying for additional features, but paying for the primary one that it advertises? No thanks.

Kaushik Chavali August 29, 2016

Pro subscription is overpriced! Specially for countries like India, you should have locale pricing. It's a pity, that only a few can spend $39.99/year i.e. ₹2600(approx) on an app, the price at which Indians can buy a 4G enabled smartphone. Other than that the app is excellent. Kudos!

Kevin Lausen September 10, 2016

Recent update broke link sharing... nexus 7 2012 cm 5.1.1 lolipop base. I can no longer follow links friend's shared to me w/o pb crashing. I will change my review if this changes. New update....still cannot follow links w/o crashing.

Brian Richards September 19, 2016

Worked great until recently. It seems like some update has made it so that when I send an sms, file, link, etc from the windows client, I have to unlock my phone and click on the pushbullet icon to open the app for it to send. This makes it close to useless. Please fix the app. Nothing else has changed.

Matthew Magdy September 13, 2016

The main purpose fail It doesn't download any pictures or songs from my pc to my android phone or even upload photos from phone to pc ! Kindly fix this and I will put 5 stars.

Jacob Gibson August 29, 2016

Used to be one of my top used apps. After the reduction in features and the change to pro pricing, which is way over priced, I have started using other apps for some of those features.

Ryan Bettencourtt September 22, 2016

Unreliable I so very much want this app to simply work. I've used it for months and paid for it. Too many times messages aren't synced at all. Typed messages on the computer will say they are delivered but won't show up on the phone, then later disappear from the app on the computer. PLEASE make this product work!

Michel Condoroussis September 25, 2016

I have always hated texting since I don't get those messages on my other devices but some of my family and friends don't use the same chat app that I do, now I can get all my texts on all my devices and can even reply. Plus notification mirroring and it works great.

Kelci Peterson September 2, 2016

Most Useful App - Can't Live Without I LOVE this app so much. I initially downloaded so I could text discreetly in class on my PC, but it has proven to be useful for so many things. Notification mirroring helps me keep tabs on my notifications while I'm working without getting distracted on my phone. It's also so easy to push content to different devices, saving me the hassle of using email to send photos to my PC or dealing with my phones buggy USB connection. I highly recommend this app, now that I've started using it I can't live without it

Nima M September 4, 2016

I pretty much agree with others Once a great functional app became quickly expensive. Now Windows 10 anviersery offers same service thanks to Cortna. Goodbye pushbullet, wish you better luck!

Rohin Adams September 13, 2016

Used to be reliable! About 1/3 of my texts just get stuck pending for no reason. One will send while the next won't. Sadly it's time to find another app.

Kalen Rixon September 7, 2016

Shake down I can understand putting data caps on free users, but taking away functionality that costs you no money? Universal copy/paste? Action buttons on push messages? These should not be paid features. I'll update my review if the developer decides that these should not cost $40/year

Henry Will September 12, 2016

Amazing This app is so useful. You'll find it does so much without you ever realizing how much you use it. My favorite thing is I can still text from my old phone!

Advanced Warefare Glitches September 1, 2016

This App Is Awesome! You Can Send Msgs From A Diffeent Phone Even If You Leave Your Other Device At Home, Its Hard To Explain......JUST DOWNLOAD IT!

Christopher Pollock September 9, 2016

No response to multiple emails to support Notifications for my texts stopped working. I've emailed their support multiple times but never heard back. Really disappointing.

Boomer Gernerfelslump August 29, 2016

Misleading description What it doesn't tell you is that most of the awesome features they describe are only available on the pro version. Also, not very intuitive.

sarab singh September 18, 2016

Not showing history of last 2-3 months pushes on mobile Sending or recieving files or messages from pushbullet is a pain. It is not showing any update in app since Aug.

Vincent Cardona September 3, 2016

Useful app This app takes away the need for me to have my cell phone near me at work. While at my workstation I don't miss any notifications or important text messages

David Dimitriou September 9, 2016

Brilliant, but spams your notifications This is a great app and very useful, but a small change to the way it sends you notifications would stop it from filling up your notifications bar - if there was an option to just show the latest message in your tray , similar to how notify my android works, this would certainly get 5 stars.

Kevin Middelbos September 1, 2016

Pro Features? Sure, cool. Subscription? NOPE. I don't mind paying for a product I enjoy using at all, especially not if it's good value. But a subscription service for PushBullet just seems wrong.

Nelson Armstrong August 29, 2016

Great! I tried PB once before, left it and tried others and came back. I even bought a paid version of another product and came back. For me, the Free version seems to meet my needs. However, if the Free version fails to meet them at some point, I wouldn't hesitate to get the paid version.

Arshad Khan September 14, 2016

This is great app" if you are not basically using your phone and busy over your laptop this will get all your notification from android or ios to your lappi. 👍 awesome