Send text messages and see your notifications while on your computer
Pushbullet: SMS and notifications on your computer
By Hafiz Rahman
Editor, tools and utilities
- Send and receive SMS from your computer keyboard
- Reply to WhatsApp, Kik and Messenger chats from a PC
- Phone notifications and calls shown on the computer
- Dismiss an alert on the computer and it clears on the phone
- Share links and files between your phone and computer
What Pushbullet does on a computer
Pushbullet is an Android app that connects your phone to a computer so you can handle texts, alerts and shared files without holding the phone. It suits people who get a steady stream of messages during the working day and would rather answer them from a desktop.
Most of what it does happens on the computer side, with the phone supplying the messages, notifications and files.
Texting and replying from a keyboard
Pushbullet sends and receives SMS messages from the computer, so a reply is typed on the desktop keyboard instead of the phone. Chats from WhatsApp, Kik and Facebook Messenger can be answered the same way, according to the listing.
The developer presents this as a way to avoid reaching for the phone at all during the day.
Seeing and clearing phone notifications on a PC
Notifications from the phone appear on the computer, including incoming phone calls. Dismissing one on the computer also removes it on the phone, so the two devices stay in step.
Alerts can be dealt with as they arrive, rather than gathered up and checked later on the phone.
Moving links and files between devices
Links and files can be sent from the computer to the phone, and from the phone to the computer, or shared with friends. The listing describes this as the quickest way to get a link or file onto the phone so it can be opened or shared from there.
A page found at a desk, or a document being worked on there, can be sent over and picked up on the phone.
Channels and encryption for texts and alerts
Channels are topic feeds you subscribe to, so timely notifications about the things you follow arrive through the same system. The developer says SMS and notifications are protected with end-to-end encryption.
The listing also says the app has been translated into more than a dozen languages by its user community.
What's new
About this APK
The build we hold is Pushbullet: SMS on PC and more 18.12.2 (APK) for Android 7.1 and up.
- Version
- 18.12.2
- 410
- Requires Android
- 7.1+
- Package ID
- com.pushbullet.android
- Format
- APK
- Malware scan
- Clean on 64 engines
- Permissions
- 25 declared · 9 sensitive
- Find accounts on the device
- Modify files on your device
- Read files on your device
- Read your contacts
- Read your SMS messages
- Receive MMS messages
- Receive SMS messages
- See all installed apps
- Signed by
- CN=Ryan Oldenburg, O=PushBullet
- Certificate SHA-256
- 1179b7037b8441abe5582d43727fcb5dbabf2a82b7c188b04920742e59db4b2b
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