GoKawiilJoe Maring / Android Authority
Quick Share is a useful but flawed feature. Quickly sharing files between your Android, Windows, and even iOS devices is incredibly convenient. Sadly, it’s not the most reliable tool in the world. It’s often slow to detect devices and transfer files, and prone to disconnections. Thankfully, there’s a far better tool that’s made my life even easier, and it’s free.
Are you satisfied with Quick Share? 23 votes Yes 48 % No 26 % I don't use Quick Share 26 %
As frustrating as Quick Share is to use, I’ve resigned myself to using it. No alternative I’ve tried has been any better, always having the same issues or being tied to a subscription model. Then, a few weeks ago, I was listening to the Waveform podcast, and an app called Blip was mentioned. After hearing how this product reliably handles the massive files the MKBHD team works with, I decided to try it for myself — and I couldn’t be happier with it.
Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority
Using Blip is easy. It’s available on Android, Mac, Windows, and iOS, with Linux support coming soon. Once you’ve downloaded it on all of your devices, sharing your files is easy. On Windows, you can right-click any file or folder and find an option to blip in the menu. Android and iOS both show it in the share menu, just like Quick Share and AirDrop. If you’re sharing to one of your devices, you don’t need to open the app or approve the transfer on the target device. If it’s logged into the app and switched on, the transfer will happen instantly.
I’m not joking when I say it’s instant. The transfer speed is limited by your network, not the service itself. When I went on holiday last week, I used Blip to transfer 12GB of Sims 4 mods and saves from my desktop to my laptop over Wi-Fi, and it reached 1.5Gbps. You don’t need to be on the same network, either. Transfers can be sent over the internet, and several times while I was on my holidays, I blipped photos back to my laptop to edit when I got back.
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Blipping things to other people is easy, too. My wife signed up after I’d been using it for a few days, and adding her to my app was as simple as searching her email address.
Here lies another advantage Blip has over Quick Share or AirDrop. With those tools, I’d have to pick the specific device my wife wants to receive the files on. With Blip, I just send it, and the request pops up on all the devices she has, with the files sent to whichever device she uses to accept the request. The number of cat photos that are blipped between our devices is, frankly, concerning. Cat tax below.
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