Built with security in mind
Free · no account · no app store
Beam-It moves files, photos, messages and links from one browser to another — phone to laptop, office PC to phone, or to a classmate across the room. Nothing is uploaded, and there's no size limit. You can also call, video chat and share your screen.
How it works
Open beamfiles.vercel.app in any browser on your first device. There's nothing to install and no account to make.
Scan the QR code with your phone's camera, open the link, or type the 6-letter pairing code. Allow each new device once — Beam-It remembers it.
Drop files on a device, type a message or paste a screenshot. It arrives on the other screen in seconds, ready to save or open.
See it in action
This is Beam-It itself, recorded as it happened: a phone joins the pairing, is allowed on the laptop, and sends a photo and a message. Then the laptop starts a video call.
Features
Documents, videos, project files. Whole folders arrive as one .zip. Big files ask to be accepted first and can go straight into a folder.
Send a note, a link or a code from phone to laptop. You see “Delivered” when it lands, with one tap to copy or open it. Fix a typo with Edit, or delete a message for everyone.
Copy on one device, send in one tap. Paste a screenshot anywhere in Beam-It and it's on its way.
Take a photo and it lands on your laptop. iPhone photos (HEIC) can turn into JPG on arrival, so Windows opens them.
Send a file to someone who doesn't use Beam-It: they get a link that works once, straight from your device while Beam-It is open.
Let a classmate, client or colleague send to one of your devices — for an hour, a day or a week — without seeing your others.
Send to a device that's switched off: it goes as soon as that device opens Beam-It. A dropped transfer carries on where it stopped.
Can't find your phone or tablet? If Beam-It is open on it, ring it from your laptop — it beeps and shows a message.
Add it to your Dock, taskbar or Home Screen, turn on alerts, and it opens like any other app — no app store needed.
Call any of your devices or a guest, turn the camera on, or share your screen. Bring up to 6 devices into one call.
A shopping list, an address, a reminder: one note that is the same on all your own devices, updated as you type.
Pick a folder on two computers, and new, changed and deleted files copy both ways while Beam-It is open. Needs Chrome or Edge.
Save devices as a group like Home or Work and choose them in one tap. Cards show a picture, connection quality, and battery where the browser shares it.
Pick a time and your next message or file goes out then, as long as Beam-It is open on your device.
Stay connected but look offline to your devices and guests. What they send waits until you show you're online.
Set a PIN and Beam-It asks for it before it opens. Add Face ID, Touch ID, a fingerprint or Windows Hello where your device has it. It opens as soon as the right PIN is typed.
Turn it on and no file arrives on that device until you tap Accept. Messages still come straight away.
Put a password on a file or a message. It can only be opened by typing the same password on the other device.
After a file arrives, both devices show Verified when it is exactly what was sent, with nothing changed or damaged on the way.
Have finished files and messages leave a device's lists after 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days. Handy on a shared or work computer.
One screen shows every device that can reach yours: whether it is yours or a guest, how it is connected, when it last connected, and a button to remove it.
Tap Voice note, talk, and tap Send. The other device gets it with a Play button.
Photograph a paper, drag the four corners onto it, and Beam-It straightens it. Several pages go as one PDF.
Tap any photo, then Draw on it: circle something, add an arrow, or type words and drag them where you want. Save keeps it on your device; Send lets you choose which connected device gets it, yours or a guest's. Copy text reads the words in the picture, on your device. An unfinished drawing is kept, so you can carry on later, and recent photos in Activity can be opened again after you close Beam-It.
Send a photo or PDF from your phone with Print on…, and the print window opens on your own computer.
Translate turns a message into English, Albanian, Italian or German; the text goes to the MyMemory translation service. Pin keeps the texts you send often one tap away. Translate text does the same for the words in any picture you send or receive.
The screen stays on while a file is moving. Nudge buzzes a device that hasn't accepted yet, and Test my connection says in plain words what is wrong. Photos sent together arrive as one album.
Step by step
Tap a line to see its steps.
Who it's for
From a lecture hall to an office floor, Beam-It gets files where they need to be without a USB stick, an email to yourself, or a cloud folder to tidy up later.
Built with security in mind
How it compares
| Beam-It | Cloud drive | USB stick | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size limit | None | ~25 MB | Your plan | The stick |
| Copy left online | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Account needed | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Phone ↔ computer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Awkward |
| Calls and screen sharing | Yes | No | No | No |
| Cost | Free | Free | Often paid | Buy one |
Questions
Yes. There's no account, no subscription and no limit on how much you send.
No. Beam-It runs in the browser you already have — Safari, Chrome, Edge or Firefox. If you like, add it to your Dock, taskbar or Home Screen so it opens like an app.
For a transfer to happen, yes — both need Beam-It open. If you send to a device that's offline, Beam-It keeps it waiting and sends it as soon as that device opens Beam-It again.
Up to 8 devices in one pairing — your phone, tablet, laptop, work PC and more. Guests you allow don't join your pairing.
Files travel directly between devices over an encrypted connection and aren't stored on a server. As with any tool, follow your school's or employer's rules for sensitive data.
Yes. Make a one-time link for a file and send it to them. They download it straight from your device — keep Beam-It open until they have — and the link stops working after one download.
Beam-It falls back to a relay that passes the encrypted data between your devices. It's a little slower, but it works on any network — mobile data, school or work Wi-Fi.
Yes. Tap the phone or camera button on a device's card for a voice or video call, share your screen from a computer, and add more devices — up to 6 in one call. Calls go device to device, like your files.
Yes, with Chrome or Edge on both computers. In More options, turn on “Keep a folder the same on your computers” and pick a folder on each. Changes copy both ways while Beam-It is open on both, and deleted files go into a “Beam-It deleted files” folder instead of disappearing.
Yes. Tap Appear offline at the top. Your devices and guests see you as offline, and what they send waits until you turn it off.
Yes. Tap Security at the top, then Turn on app lock, and choose a PIN. Beam-It asks for it when it opens and after you have been away. Where your device has it, you can also unlock with Face ID, Touch ID, a fingerprint or Windows Hello.
Tap “Forgot your PIN?” on the lock screen. Beam-It is reset on that device: its pairing, history and settings there are removed, and you add the device to your others again. Your other devices are not affected.
Tap Password next to Send later, choose a password, then send a file or a message as usual. Tell the other person the password another way, for example by phone. Files can be up to 200 MB.
Open Beam-It on two devices and send your first file in under a minute.
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