DropDuo
AirDrop-style sharing between your Mac and Android phone
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DropDuo is a pair of native apps that send files, folders, photos, links and text between your Mac and Android phone, directly over your local network. Pair once by scanning a QR code and approving it on your Mac. After that, the two devices reconnect on their own. • Right-click in Finder → Send with DropDuo, or use Android’s share sheet • Photos arrive as originals, and folders stay folders • Interrupted transfers resume and are integrity-checked • Encrypted end to end, no account, no cloud
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Partial The UI is simple, but reliable device-to-device transfer requires native Swift and Kotlin apps, local discovery, pairing security, and encrypted transport. Those pieces are harder for an AI-assisted solo builder to get right without deeper systems knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app in Swift (Finder integration, Bonjour/mDNS discovery) and an Android app in Kotlin (foreground service, share intents). Pairing needs a QR-based key exchange and an encrypted, authenticated local transport such as TLS with pinned keys. Thorough testing across network conditions, sleep/wake, and OS versions is the hard part, so solid networking and security experience is needed.
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Attention rank: #151 of 306 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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