Your Mac and your Android can finally talk.
You picked a great phone and a great laptop, and they act like strangers. Apple gives iPhone owners a set of features that make the phone and the Mac work as one, and calls it Continuity. Every one of them needs an iPhone. The Relay brings seven of them to the phone you actually own.
The same five annoyances, every day
- —You email yourself a file to move it two feet.
- —A bank texts a code to your phone. You pick it up, read it, and retype it.
- —A call rings in another room while you are at your desk.
- —You copy an address on your phone and type it again on your Mac.
- —The best camera you own is in your pocket, and your calls use the laptop’s.
One app on your phone. One on your Mac.
Your Android phone’s camera and microphone appear on the Mac as a camera and a microphone. Choose them in the app you are calling from, the same way you would choose any webcam.
Clipboard sync, both ways. Copy on the phone and paste on the Mac, and the reverse. It carries text, images, and links.
Browse the phone’s storage from a window on the Mac and drag files either way over the local network. The app sets no file-size limit.
An SMS that arrives on the phone shows up on the Mac. A login code in it is copied to the Mac’s clipboard so you can paste it.
The phone’s notifications appear as Mac notifications.
An incoming call on the phone shows on the Mac, where you can accept or decline it.
Share a page from the phone and it opens in the Mac’s default browser, and the other way round.
Your clipboard, files, texts, and notifications travel directly between your phone and your Mac over your local network. They are not uploaded to The Relay’s servers.
The connection between the two devices is encrypted. Both need to be on the same network or in Bluetooth range; it is not a remote-access tool.
One-time purchase, no subscription, no feature tiers, updates included. Android 8.0 or later and macOS 13 Ventura or later.
How many people are in this position? Our best estimate is 10 to 28 million Macs. The arithmetic is here. For the full feature-by-feature comparison with Apple, see Apple Continuity for Android.