SideMount
Your Android phone as a drive in Finder
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
A small app that puts your Android phone in Finder as a regular drive. Plug it in, and your photos, downloads and SD card open like any folder, ready for Finder, Terminal and the apps you already use. Over USB or Wi-Fi, for macOS 26, with a free week to try it.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
Could you build this?
Partial The UI is a small menu bar app, but exposing an Android phone as a macOS Finder volume requires a native File Provider extension and an MTP or ADB-style transport over USB and Wi-Fi. Those low-level macOS and device protocol pieces are hard to vibe-code reliably.
What it would actually take: Build a Swift macOS app with a File Provider extension to appear in Finder, plus a transport layer that speaks MTP or a companion Android agent over USB (ADB) and Wi-Fi. Signing, notarization, and handling Android's storage permissions and file-system quirks are the hard parts. This needs a developer experienced with macOS system extensions and device protocols.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 471 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #80 of 472 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
- PocketDrive · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Plugged · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DroidDock · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PicDock · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Gocci · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Show 3 more
- Android2PC Backup Manager · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- RollFerry · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- FilesToNAS · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49