What's new
Small project, frequent changes. Newest first.
- New pages. A comparison with every other way of moving a photo, a plain-language walk through what happens to your photo, a tips page with a decision guide and real screenshots, and this list. The seven guides were rewritten so each one is about its own pair of devices. They carry the 2026 facts: the Quick Share and AirDrop bridge on the newest Pixels and Galaxies, Phone Link's iPhone file sharing, the end of Android File Transfer. Later the same day, a sweep over every page: a correction about what an iPhone hands the browser (usually a JPEG copy of a HEIC), dates on this list, shorter titles, and smaller fixes.
- Save all, and a memory for Save. A used Save button goes a touch gray so you can see which files you already have. With two or more files received, Save all packs them into one zip. The Copy button on notes now copies plain text on iPhone and Mac; Safari used to add a web-address flavor that pasted spaces as %20.
- Phones are protected from files they cannot hold. A receiving phone now refuses a file that would exhaust its memory and tells the sender plainly, instead of the tab crashing mid-transfer. Reload mid-connection keeps your code and the other side reconnects by itself. Files queued behind a dropped transfer are no longer lost. A deliberate Disconnect now holds even when the other phone was asleep. Security hardening across the board: HTTPS enforced, stricter headers, rate limits on the introduction service.
- Faster, and a large sweep of fixes. Fonts and scripts now come from notegirl.com itself, so nothing third-party stands between you and the page, and it paints a third sooner on a slow connection. A file that had been sent but not yet confirmed could stay stuck at "delivering" after a reconnect; it now resolves. Disconnecting during a transfer now disconnects. Screen readers get proper landmarks and headings. The ad slot, which is collapsed until Google fills it, sits at the bottom of every page.
- Small courtesies. Shift+Enter sends a note. The note box grows as you type. Web addresses in notes are links. The tab title shows a count when something arrives while you are elsewhere. The screen stays awake while connected. The home-screen hint now shows the real iOS 26 steps with the buttons drawn as they look. The home-screen icon got a little breathing room.
- The link heals itself. If a phone locks mid-transfer, the other side notices within seconds, waits, reconnects when the phone wakes, and resends whatever was not confirmed. That was the one thing it had to get right.
- Photo viewer. Tap a photo to see it as large as the screen allows, with a close button that never sits on the picture and a Back button that closes the viewer instead of leaving the page. Long file names fit their row. The wordmark is set in Space Grotesk.
- Guides, and the groundwork for search. Seven answer pages for the questions people actually type, a sitemap, structured data, and a plain-text description for AI assistants.
- Our own introduction service. Connections are brokered by Notegirl's own hub on Cloudflare instead of a public server, which some office networks blocked.
- First public version. Three words, any two devices, nothing stored.
More
- Send photos from your iPhone to a Windows PC
- Send photos from an Android phone to a Mac
- Get a photo from your phone onto your laptop
- Send photos between an Android phone and an iPhone
- Get a file onto a computer that isn't yours
- AirDrop for everyone else
- Paste text from your phone to your computer
- How it compares with AirDrop, Quick Share and the rest
- What actually happens to your photo
- Tips, tricks, and things to use it for
- How Notegirl works, and why it's safe