DeskConnect App Reviews

It works like airdrop should. All you do is install and share…No issues sharing between iPhone ipad and macbook.

This app is what airdrop should have been. I can never get airdrop to work without a bunch of fidling around but this works flawlessly. The only thing that would make it better is dropbox integration.

I was always texting pictures to one of my kids so I could grab them onto another device. No longer. I just installed in on my MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad… and it worked so nice. I can choose one device to send it to… or both. So cool. Love it already!!!

I’m using this App on Yosimite and it keeps crashing whenever I send something from my iPhone. Even when I click on the “Recent” tab, it crashes.

Seems kind of useless as a File Transfer Program if the limit is 100 MB… I could email this amount.

All I can say is wow! This app works like a charm. Gone are the days of emailing myself a photo just to open/have it on another device. Setup was a snap and man is it fast. I tested it by sharing a photo from my iPhone camera roll to my Macbook Pro and it was there waiting for me in less than a second! This is really great stuff.

This utlity is great. It does everything AirDrop should but doesn’t. Works seamlessly to send data between my Mac and iPhone/iPad.

Are you kidding me! Free and it works this GREAT! I’ve had it for just a day and have been sending pictures from my phone to my Mac all day long. Why keep the high resolution pictures using up valuable memory. Send them right to your Mac or other device in real time. You don’t have to be there to receive it. Loving it!

The user of this service needs to be aware that each time you use it marketing data is collected, google does the same thing but there are ways to limit Google’s tracking of your data you cannot limit this application from collecting data from your personal files that you send through this service.. and I’m not entirely sure about how secure the information that you have on your iphone or mac that isn’t sent through the service because it has to has access to your file system on any device in order to work. Basically what this is, is you are consenting to allowing cookies to track and follow your habits around the web and collect information. There are rules for this service as well as a term of use which is immediately enforiced as each item can be saved up to 90 days or longer. While you are taking a risk with the app as long as you don’t send nudes or whatever using this application you should be safe however anything that violates the law or seems to be hate speech will get you blacklisted from the serive I would not in anyway send true private information through here… NOTHING THAT CAN PERSONALLY IDENTIFY YOU NEEDS TO BE SENT THROUGH THIS APPLICATION. This is from the privacy statment : ---- When you interact with DeskConnect through the Site or Services, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. DeskConnect may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by DeskConnect affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, the domain names of our visitors Internet service providers, and how our users use and interact with the DeskConnect Services. Also, in an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, DeskConnect often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. DeskConnect may share this non-identifiable and aggregate data with its affiliates, agents and business partners, but this type of non-identifiable and aggregate information does not identify you personally. DeskConnect may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes —— This is form the Terms of use : ——— You agree to not use the Service to (a) transmit any content that (i) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another‘s privacy, hateful racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (ii) you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; (iii) poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person; (iv) infringes any intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any party; (v) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or (vi) in the sole judgment of DeskConnect, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Service, or which may expose DeskConnect or its users to any harm or liability of any type; (b) impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; or (c) interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service; (d) violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any regulations having the force of law; (e) further or promote any criminal activity or enterprise or provide instructional information about illegal activities; or (f) obtain or attempt to access or otherwise obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Service.-----

Open it. Hit recent. Crashes.

As another reviewer noted: Hit icon in top menu, click on recent, color wheel spins, Crash. Not ready for prime time. Good concept, fatal glitch.

Open, connect, hit recent…crashes. Every. Time.

Sorry, but deleting due to security concerns.

I have been waiting for something exactly like this for YEARS! All of this automatic syncing stuff from Apple never works. They say that “You jsut do nothing and your files are available”. When I am hurrying off to a meeting and my presentation isn’t on my iPad and no amount of shouting at it works I am completely helpless. With this on the other hand it’s a quick drag to the device and I’m done. THANK YOU!!!

Please also support Windows. Please support reordering / sort by name etc. Please support reviewing view of all items. Please support a text box to let us type or copy&paste.

As title, it just works but the transfer speed is too slow, whatever, it’s a solution for who don’t have airdrop.

As the reviews below say, this app works great! It’s how easy Airdrop should be and isn’t. I am only giving it 4 stars because of one small criticism. It seems that, for now the received files are stored in a hidden system file somewhere... I would love the ability to be able to select where the received files are saved so I can access them easily. Keep up the good work, excited to use this app more as it improves!

Same problem as reported by BIG M37 - sending pic from iPhone 5S seems fine, but can’t do anything with the app on my Macbook Pro without it crashing. Too bad because it looks great and would be if it worked. Running Yosemite on a 17” Macbook Pro and have all the updates. The app seemed to install ok and sits in the top bar like it should until I try to click ‘Recents to look for a pic sent from my iPhone - then the beachball spins for 1-2 secs and poof, it’s gone. Restarting the app is no help. Restarting the computer is no help. I’ll see how well Deskconnect email support works because nothing in their FAQ addresses this problem...

If you manage to get into the preferences for the app without it crashing, you can set it to open things immediately and it’ll work. But if you don’t change that setting, this app will be nearly worthless to you because of the crashing. Once that’s fixed, however, this seems like a good way to get files from point a to point b.

Tried this only to be greeted by yet another “service” asking me to create an account. Nope. This might have been convenient, but I’m not positive, given there is a limit on file size (Share as much as you want! but read their FAQs page first) and storage location is vague (storage on my system is “temporary” for 30 days — so it’s all only on your servers I can’t directly access?). I get that there needs to be a way to identify my stuff as belonging to me and me as the person accessing, but there’s little information about this company, service or partners.