Pushbullet - SMS on PC

It was great, until i sent 100 messages, then it pretty much doesn't do much except show your notifications on both android and pc. Still slightly useful, will dump for another free app. I'd consider pro if they offered a lifetime subscription fee, which they definitely don't. The three dollar a year is worth it for the convenience of texting from the PC (and some apps like kik).

Eventhough I disable the notification mirroring from my phone during my work hours, it still pushes notifications. It is annoying sometimes because of uncertainty.

The app works great. I love it! I have one complaint though. Sometimes when using my laptop to reply to my text messages, I get the indication that they sent when in reality they don't send. Doesn't happen always, but it's slightly unreliable.

Does exactly what it says it will do! I love getting my SMS and phone calls forwarded to my laptop. I can do my work now without having to check my phone all the time! I also use it to send to do lists from phone to laptop. It is very handy.

This was a great product for me to use at first and I also upgraded to pro. This month for some reason Pushbullet charged me, but then my account said I still needed to upgrade to pro for all the benefits. I thought it might be a syncing issue, so I decided to try and contact the company. It's been days and I haven't heard any response back. It sucks because this is a great product, but the customer service is severely lacking. Quick to take my money, but very slow in responding. I'm not even sure if they'll respond since I haven't gotten any replies back yet. Its a very unfortunate situation

Almost perfect. This is possibly the best app for texting from your Android tablet (or from your Chrome browser on a PC or Mac). There are two significant downsides in terms of productivity. The first is, even reaching out to the developer numerous times, I have been unable to figure out how to create a new SMS/text message on the tablet. For the life of me, I do not know how to create a new message and choose an addressee from my address book on my tablet. I can only respond to existing messages. The second issue is when you enter the app on your tablet, the SMS section is blank. You need to select another section and then come back to the SMS section and you will find the section populated with all of your messages. Might sound nigly I know, but if you use the SMS feature from your table heavily, it does impact productivity. Otherwise, this thing is actually quite awesome and powerful. (If the above two issues were addressed, five stars for sure!)

Fast sync across all my devices. Saves me a lot of frustration copying and pasting from different OS environments.

Battery drains at about 8%/h while active. Totally unusable unless you're plugged into the charger. And it's funny the devs think the monthly rate is affordable for what little it offers.

I am having trouble trying to download on my tablet. I don't have a computer right now.

It's good. I really like being able to text from my computer while I do work, but it's really annoying to have to uninstall and reinstall the app every day.

I don't know what happened, but every time i want to share a link from my phone to my desktop i only get a screenshot sent. It's totally useless now.

UPDATE, although I will leave my previous comment below as well. The app appears to be working again and I love it again. Didn't get much of a response from support (I was paying), but as I said, it does appear to be working again and thats a good thing. Previous Review: WHAT HAPPENED? This use to be my favorite app and I was pushing it on EVERYBODY like it was my job. After one day of using the free version I upgraded to Pro. For months it worked great, but now it totally sucks for me. Unusable!!! Now I consider it way too annoying to use. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it multiple times as directed by Tech but I still have nothing but pending messages in my outgoing most of the time. When it worked it was wonderful though. It can't hurt you to try it. maybe it might work you.

Much better than Republic Anywhere. I use Republic Wireless and was looking for a tool I could use to send SMS messages from my tablet. I was having all sorts of issues with their "Republic Anywhere" app (which is supposed to let you do this), so I went hunting for something else. After trying all the other competing apps, I settled on Pushbullet. Very happy so far with the look and feel, performance and features of the app.

I thought about buying this app as it is helpful but it does not always sync everything or sync timely. So I cannot really rely on it. The desktop apps also tend to be slow and cause my machines to hang while they update. Both my machines are i7 16gb ram ssd drives or better.

Wish there was a one-time fee option or at least a reduced fee. I can't see paying the current subscription fee. That being said, nothing out there works quite as well as Pushbullet, so I guess that's that. I really appreciate the developers and wish I could afford to support them.

Have used your app for years now. I was in the middle of setting up a phone and for almost 3 weeks straight your app continually notify me without giving permission that my account was not signed it. I did not need the service at the time. So I kept ignoring the notifications but it kept coming up stop it.

>UPDATE as of Friday December 1, 2017, 11:18 pm Pushbullet is now installed on all my devices. I will provide my final update after I have worked with Pushbullet for a while. >Installed 2 weeks ago. Once I can get app working on my Laptop, tablet and GS7 Edge, I'll rate OR uninstall

I didn't understand fully the first time I tried Pushbullet but now that I've researched it a little more it is top-notch. Don't know how I could have gone without it. I can see my text messages from any computer that I'm on and I can transfer files to any of my devices. It is really outstanding. five stars.

Awesome app and incredible support. My new Galaxy S8 wasn't allowing other S8s to mirror to my computer and I was immediately helped with my problem. Together, we were able to fix it and everything works great. Highly recommend!

Finally uninstalling after disabling in Chrome months ago after I hit the SMS limit. It was so annoying to type a text (on PC) only to realize I couldn't send it. It's a great app and creative idea. But I personally don't value the convenience enough to shell out a monthly subscription fee. (And MyPhoneExplorer is both free and superior for power users.)

Great app, terrible tech support. I contacted the team with a bug that prevents me from seeing incoming texts. I was told they would work on the problem, but couldn't tell me how soon it would be addressed. That was over a year ago. For an app that charges by the month you would expect better service. Another year later and the problem isn't fixed. About time to search for an alternative.

When I'm home I use pushbullet to let me use my laptop to read/send SMS, share browser pages from my phone to my pc, and move files back and forth between phone and laptop. I don't think I Can live without it anymore. It's that useful!

Total garbage. I originally reviewed these about 18 months. I gave it another try hoping it would work, fix bugs, etc. No such luck. It is still garbage and still doesnt work. Inbound text messages were never received, same for outbound. Cannot delete messages if accessing them from your tablet. Cannot send texts from your tablet. Customer support is horrible; never reply. Don't waste your time. Hopefully there are better apps out there. If so, let me know.

I installed this across my devices and immediately loved it. Then I found out there was a 100-SMS-per-month limit before you have to pay monthly. This was not made very clear and was a major bummer. If only it was free...

I am giving one star to get your attention. This app does not show notifications when computer is connected using VPN, even though messages, remote files access works fine. I have no idea why.

Almost a month now and still no word from support about the issue I have. Bad bad customer service here. There are many more text from computer applications to choose from. Pushbullet sucks big time.

Great concept and worked when it came out. Now, it's overly burdensome to use and the UI is getting worse. That along with 100% lack of support... I've migrated to AirDroid.

Works well. Monthly limitation is annoying but it's not worth $60 a year so I'll put up with it. I have no problem going to my phone when I hit the limit.

Sucks big time! Got conned into installing it; does not work as advertised. Sorry. Desktop is frozen and Android app has nothing to do. Worried about what is going on behind the scenes.

Good app, but I've barely been able to send any photos from my phone to my PC recently. Many of them say "Sorry, we couldn't send that." and don't work even after multiple retries. Please fix.

The app has been helpful. But it has issues with file sharing from mobile. The pdfs or images of even small size don't get uploaded. It will show as an error in the app with the message "Sorry, we couldn't send that". No matter how much you try the "Retry" option, the same thing happens and it's really frustrating. Please do fix this issue in the app.

For someone like myself that uses a Mac computer but an Android phone, Pushbullet is a must have.application. I enjoy having my notifications from whatever apps I choose, automatically pushed to my desktop and being able to respond to text messages without ever having to look away from my computer. If you're someone that envies iPhone users' ability to manage notifications from their computer, then this is definitely for you.

Pushbullet is a great app that does exactly what it says. I mostly use it for quickly transferring links and images between my phone and computer. Normally this would be a tedious task, having to send myself an email or something like that, but Pushbullet turns that into a few quick clicks. The push notifications from phone to computer are quite useful as well, particularly if you have to keep your phone silenced or out of sight while on your computer, for whatever reason. Being able to text through Pushbullet is handy and remniscent of Apple's iMessage, where the logs and messaging capability are on both the phone and computer. Honestly, Pushbullet is great, and it's a shock Android doesn't natively have a capability like it. I'd recommend this app to anyone who spends time on both their phone and computer.

I don't know what I might be doing wrong, the app has all the required permissions enabled, I've restarted my phone and I've uninstalled, and reinstalled the app and the app, once setup, gets stuck on a loading screen and won't do anything. I love the app, worked fine on other devices. Currently using LG G5 (factory unlocked)

Update - App has become difficult to use the past few months. Downloads fail 90% of the time on Android Nougat using mobile data. From an LGV20 and a Galaxy S7. Easy to set up and use. It works as described.

Awesome! Now I don't have to physically hold my private mobile phone to text wifey, or use the work mobile to text the boss, or even go upstairs to fetch to either of the forgotten phones when I can text from my tablet instead. Or the laptop. Or the desktop. Or from my private mobile over the work!

updated review. This app really has turned into an amazing tool. When it first came out it was a little lite on features and I wasn't to happy with the way it worked. Now it's amazing. I am about to pay for the pro version.

Still annoyed about the pro stuff. But, It's a decent app either way. Works well, that's for sure. Would really love for windows 10 People app integration. The native SMS functionality in Windows 10 is a joke, even when it does work.

Incredibly useful app. Gone are the days of pulling phone out of pocket and turning on screen to check every single vibration when in front of a computer screen. Great for sharing links/pictures between devices as well.

I love Pushbullet. It's very handy for sending links and files between devices, and it does so lightning fast. Sometimes I'll even receive a push on my laptop before I get the Pushed Successfully popup on my phone.