Not only does it make Android and Chrome work well together, it makes Chrome’s notification center much more useful. PushBullet is the sort of app Google should have created. When you see an SMS notification from PushBullet, you can continue the conversation from MightyText in your web browser instead of pecking or swiping at your phone’s touch keyboard. MIghtyText is probably the most polished option. Sure, you can reply to an email, Hangouts message, or tweet from your PC - but what if you need to replay to a text message?Īpps that allow you to send SMS messages from your PC work well alongside PushBullet. There are still some things you’ll need to pick up your phone for. It’s a bit like Google’s own Chrome to Phone service, but Google’s service hasn’t seen much love in recent years. This is ideal for quickly sending a link or file to your phone before you leave your PC and pick up your phone. Click the PushBullet icon on your browser’s toolbar or visit the PushBullet website to send data back and forth. It’s a two-way system designed for sending messages, links, files, locations, and other data between your phone and your PC. You can have PushBullet play a sound on your PC when notifications arrive, too. For example, you can have PushBullet stay running in the background when you close all Chrome windows. Use the other options to control how PushBullet works. If you’d like to disable notifications for a longer period of time, click the Notifications tab here and check, “Don’t show my phone’s notifications on my computer.” Re-enable notifications from here when you want to see them again. If you ever want PushBullet to stop bothering you, just visit this screen and click Snooze Notifications. Right-click the PushBullet icon on Chrome’s toolbar and select Options to view these options. You can tweak PushBullet’s notifications settings from the Chrome extension’s options screen. Clear a notification on your Android and it will vanish on your PC, too. Dismiss a notification on your PC and you won’t be bothered with it on your phone. The Dismiss on device button will dismiss the notification on both your desktop and your Android phone. For example, you could tap, “Disable mirroring of Google Play Store,” and you won’t receive notifications about app updates on your computer. PushBullet allows you to quickly disable mirroring for an app if you don’t want to view its notifications. On a Mac, you’ll find the notification center in the upper-right corner of your screen. Click the notification center icon in the system tray to view them. PushBullet will hide them after a few seconds, but they’ll remain in Chrome’s notification center. Notifications will now pop up on your computer when they appear on your Android device. Click the PushBullet icon on Chrome’s toolbar and sign in with the same Google account you signed in with on your Android device.
Next, install the PushBullet extension from the Chrome Web Store on your computer. Only apps you allow access to here can see your Android notifications. This gives PushBullet access to Android’s notifications. You can use any Google account - you just have to sign into PushBullet with the same Google account in on each device.įollow the instructions on your screen to enable notification sharing and activate the notification mirroring service on Android’s settings screen.
Launch the PushBullet app and sign in with your Google account.
Install the PushBullet app for Android from Google Play.
Your Android notifications will appear in Chrome’s notification center on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS. This feature requires a device running Android 4.1 or newer. Do you pick up your phone, unlock it, and look at the notifications? Don’t bother - just have all your Android notifications appear on your computer. Your phone just made a sound, but you’re busy using your PC.