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PingDrop

Your Android phone, on your Mac

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PingDrop connects your Android phone and your Mac: notifications you can reply to, calls, files and folders, clipboard, your phone as a webcam, a Mac that locks when you walk away, and more. No account, no cloud — it all stays between your devices.

PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: mobile system utility apps · 186 launches, 19 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial The notification and file-sharing UI is buildable, but the phone-as-webcam and Mac auto-lock features need OS-level work (a CoreMediaIO virtual camera driver, Android system services, Bluetooth proximity) that vibe coding alone won't get right.

What it would actually take: Use a native Android app (Kotlin, NotificationListenerService, MediaProjection/Camera APIs) and a macOS app (Swift) connected over local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with end-to-end encryption and no cloud. The hard parts are the virtual webcam (a signed CoreMediaIO system extension) and reliable proximity-based locking, which need experienced macOS and Android systems developers and ongoing maintenance as OS versions change.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 650 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #125 of 651 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Sidekick · ph · 2026-11-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • DroidDock · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • DropDuo · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • BrowserDrop · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Nearby Drop · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Plugged · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • DroidDisk · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Rayclip · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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