Plugged
Android File Transfer is gone. This is the replacement.
Details
- External ID
- 1257271
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Plugged
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Mac, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Plug in your Android phone or any MTP device and drag files both ways in a Finder-like window. Quick Look files still on the phone, queue transfers with real progress, and get told exactly which USB setting to tap when the phone won't show up. No drivers, no account, no network access, no subscription. Native Mac app, one-time purchase, English and Chinese. Works with Samsung, Pixel, Xiaomi, OnePlus and every other Android device, plus e-readers, handheld consoles and DJI controllers.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- file transfer tool between android and mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and high-level Mac file browser are straightforward, but handling USB device communication via MTP without relying on buggy native drivers requires low-level libusb/MTP protocol implementation and edge-case handling across dozens of Android OEM implementations.
What it would actually take: A native macOS app (Swift/AppKit) interfacing with a custom or open-source C/Rust MTP engine (like libmtp or an ADB-free implementation) via libusb. The core challenge is handling MTP protocol quirks, device timeouts, and edge cases across hundreds of Android vendor implementations while integrating seamlessly with macOS Finder conventions and Quick Look APIs. It requires solid systems programming and USB protocol debugging skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 179 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 180 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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