How to supervise your Android Smartphone from Desktop

Almost everyone have Smartphone in their hands. People love to use Smartphone due to their advance features. But we are limited to the small screen of your Smartphone of tablet and we can only view a single app at a time.

But when it comes to desktop, the most liked feature is the multitasking, managing more than 1 app at a time. It’s easier to manage media such as photos, videos and music on desktop. You can transfer large files to your desktop, so that you can manage them easily.

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Here we will tell you about the tools that will make your work easier without being limited by the different desktop OS. Let’s look at the tools you can use to manage your Android phone from desktop.

Airmore

Airmore is the app that grants you to stream videos, photos and your music collection on your Smartphone. In Airmore photos are organized by day or month to make it easier to download and delete photos. Using Airmore you can also manage contacts, send multiple messages at once to your contacts or even make a call.

How to Use

• Install the App on your Android Smartphone. And open the app.
• Now open Airmore web on your PC browser and scan the QR code displayed. And now click on accept on your phone.
• You can also make connections using IP or code or hotspot connection.

You can connect your Android to Mac or iOS to PC as well, using Airmore. With Airmore, you can easily manage files both on the phone and SD card. And now transferring files between phone and PC is easy.

Connect Me

Connect Me allows to stream videos or any other media saved on your Smartphone. Watch feed from desktop of your phone camera by linking it to your PC using Connect Me. You can also send SMS and make phone calls easily. Your desktop will also notify you if someone calls you or sends you message.

How to Use

• Install the app and then open it.
• Visit the web address shown on the app or login to web.gomo.com on your PC’s browser. And click Ok on your Smartphone to connect.
• You can also connect your PC to your phone’s Wi-Fi with a name generated by the App. Open the URL shown on your phone with your PC browser.

Connect Me works with windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS and with smart TVs too. The app also let you send the ringtones, clipboard data, and APK files or push URLs to your phone. With the root access you can even take screenshot of your phone.

Airdroid

Airdroid is the popular app with plenty of features. Its features includes being able to show notifications from incoming calls or messages, as well as app notifications from the messaging apps like Whatsapp. And getting an Android account can also help you to find your phone.

How to Use

• Install Airdroid and open the app.
• Now open the Airdroid web and scan the QR code to connect.
• You can even download desktop app for Windows or Mac OS X. when you start the app on desktop then it will automatically launch on your phone.

Airdroid also works well when transferring files between the phone and PC and also let the desktop to link to your phone’s camera. AirMirror a cool feature of Airdroid, allows you to run your Android app right from your PC with same interface on your Smartphone.

Web PC Suite

Web PC Suite enables you to see and stream your photos, music, videos, documents, APK, and other kind of files from your Android to PC, via Wi-Fi or personal hotspot. The interface works via drag-and-drop.

How to Use

• Download the app in your phone and open it.
• Go to the website and scan the QR code there. You can login with your account too.

Web PC Suite works across a wide range of desktop, mobile and tablet platforms bridging transfers between android, iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone and Blackberry with PC, OS X and Linux.

Mighty Text

Mighty text is created for those who love texting through SMS. Basically with Mighty Text, you can send or receive SMS or MMS on your PC using your current phone number or send an SMS from your Gmail account. App comes with a PowerView which lets you carry multiple conversations in one go.

How to Use

• On installation page, insert your Android phone number to get the app sent to your phone.
• Install the plug-in or extension for your favorite browser. To send text from Gmail, get the required extension on the same page.
• Launch the web app to start using.

The app notifies user of incoming app notification to their phone, and allow these notifications to be dismissed on the PC. The app also has syncing abilities for photos and videos and you can add filters to your photos right on PC. There is a Pro version of this app gives you extra features such as to send and reply to text messages via email, changing the themes, block numbers, create templates and signatures as well as scheduling messages.

Xender

Xender is a great app to transfer everything from files, photos, music, videos to apps between two android phones or from android to PC, Mac or iOS devices. The connect PC mode allows users to see the all the files found in their phone from apps, photos, videos, music, and even files from your phone storage.

How to Use

• On your PC browser, open web.xender.com.
• Download and open the app on your phone.
• Tap on the transfer button and choose which device to transfer to.
• If you choose Mac or PC, you will need to choose to scan QR code on your mobile. Scan the code to connect.

Xender’s phone to phone transfer acquires no data usage and supports file transfers between iOS and Android devices seamlessly. Two cool features Xender has is that you can create a group of up to 4 devices and regularly share your files to the same group and it is a great app to replicate your phone, your phone can transfer everything you need from your old phone to your new phone.

Mobizen

Mobizen let you access and transfer files between your Android phone and PC and also let you access all the multimedia files on your phone, including contacts and details. Mobizen also allows you to share music to your speakers and photos and videos to your large desktop screen and record your android screen and use your android from your computer screen.

How to Use

• Install the application on your android phone. There will be two options one for Samsung devices and another for non-Samsung devices.
• Get the browser plug-ins.
• Login in both the android and web app.
• You will receive a 6 digit pin that you will need to input in the Android app to connect.

You can be connected in several ways: Wi-Fi, USB or even 3G/LTE connection. For the fastest connection, USB connection is the best. App runs very slowly when I connect via Wi-Fi. Mobizen also comes with a “Find My Device” feature to help you locate your phone which would be helpful if their over the air connection is better.

Wi-Fi File Transfer

Wi-Fi File Transfer does the same as all of the above apps but in a traditional manner. With this small app you can browse all the files and folders on your Android via Wi-Fi by FTP.

How to Use

• Download the app
• Ensure that both the PC and Android are on same network.
• Open the application and click “Start Service”.
• Now copy and paste the URL address displayed in the app into your FTP Client application or Windows Explorer. All the files will be shown on Android.

This app can do the fast, secure and efficient transfers but you will have to do it without a user interface.

Neha Sharma is an experienced technical content writer. She is working with a computer repair service provider company and likes to write unique and informative articles on latest technology and apps. In this article, she discusses about “How to supervise your Android Smartphone from Desktop”. Keep in touch with her to know more tips and tricks about Apple support Services and Windows 10.