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Scan the code, or enter it at imageonline.io/image-drop
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Point the camera at the code on the other device.
Send photos and files between your phone, laptop and PC in the browser. They go device to device and never touch a server.
Open this page on both devices and they see each other. Press Send files next to the other device, pick the photos, and they arrive on the other screen a moment later at full quality - no cable, no app to install, no account, and nothing uploaded to the cloud on the way. It works between anything with a browser: iPhone to Windows, Android to Mac, phone to laptop, laptop to phone, or two phones side by side.
Devices on the same wifi find each other automatically. A phone on mobile data and a laptop on wifi can still be joined with a six-character code. Once connected, the files travel straight from one device to the other over an encrypted peer-to-peer link, so a 40 MB photo takes as long as the wifi takes and the transfer never touches a server.
To send a link or a note instead of a file, press Send text on the device and type it. It appears on the other screen with a Copy button.
Devices only see each other automatically when they share a connection - the same home or office wifi. A phone on 4G, a laptop on a hotel network, a work PC behind a VPN: none of those share anything, so they never appear in each other's device list. That is what the code at the top of the page is for. Every device shows its own six-character code and a QR code of it: scan the QR code with the other device's camera, or type the code into its Code from the other device box, and both join a private room that works across networks. The pairing is remembered for a day, so a phone and a PC you use together only need it once, and New code starts a fresh one whenever you like.
The code room is the answer to the two questions that come up most often. "Why can't I see my other device?" - it is on a different network, or the wifi isolates its guests from each other, which many public and hotel networks do; pair by code. "Can I send from the office to home?" - yes, as long as both pages are open; the files still go device to device, the code only introduces them.
Messaging apps recompress every picture they carry, and emailing a photo to yourself both shrinks it and leaves a copy on a mail server. Image Drop sends the file exactly as it is on the sending device: a 12 MP JPG arrives as the same 12 MP JPG, byte for byte, and a RAW, a PNG, a video or a PDF goes through the same way - it is a photo tool by name, but it moves any file. There is no upload quota because there is no upload; the practical limit is the memory of the receiving device, which comfortably handles a few hundred megabytes at a time.
Speed is set by the local network, not by an internet connection. Two devices on the same wifi typically move a large photo in a second or two, and a batch of a hundred phone pictures in well under a minute. The transfer runs over WebRTC, the same technology video calls use, with its built-in encryption; nothing on the way between the two devices can read the files.
Nothing you send is stored anywhere. The only thing our server ever sees is the introduction: which devices are in the same room and the small messages they exchange to open a direct connection. The files themselves never leave the two devices, which is why a transfer between a phone and a laptop on the same wifi works even when the internet connection is slow. Your device is identified by a random name that changes when you close the tab, not by an account, and a device on a public wifi has to accept a transfer before a single byte is sent to it, so nobody can push files onto your screen uninvited.
Image Drop is one of the tools on this site, alongside the image compressor if you need a smaller copy before sending it on, the image resizer, and the converter for changing the format once the photo is on the other device.
Open this page on the phone and on the PC while both are on the same wifi. The PC appears on the phone's screen; press Send files, pick the photos, and accept on the PC. They land in the downloads folder at full resolution. No cable, no app, no account.
Yes. It runs in the browser, so any two devices with a browser can send to each other: iPhone to Windows, Android to Mac, iPad to a Chromebook, or two phones. It is the AirDrop that does not care what the other device is.
The two devices are not on the same network. Mobile data and wifi are different networks, and many public, hotel and office networks keep their users apart on purpose. Scan the QR code shown on one device with the other, or type its code into the box; that joins them across any network.
No. The files travel directly from one device to the other over an encrypted WebRTC connection. Our server only introduces the two devices to each other and relays the handful of small messages needed to open that connection; it never sees the contents of a transfer.
There is no upload limit because nothing is uploaded. Files are held in the memory of the receiving device until you save them, so a few hundred megabytes at a time is comfortable; for a much larger batch, send it in parts.
No. The file arrives exactly as it left, byte for byte - the same resolution, the same metadata, the same size. That is the difference from sending pictures through a messaging app, which recompresses them.
Yes, and it works the same way: devices on the same network see each other and send files directly. Image Drop adds pairing by code for devices on different networks, previews for received photos, and text messages, and it runs on our own infrastructure so it stays up.
Press Send text on the device and type it. It appears on the other device with a Copy button, and any links in it are clickable.