Photo Transfer App for Android

No. Transfers happen directly between your devices over your local WiFi. The app does not require a Google account, and no photos are uploaded to Google, to us, or to any third party during a transfer.

Yes. Photo Transfer is a standard Android app and works on any device running Android 10 or newer, regardless of manufacturer. There are no special drivers or manufacturer-specific dependencies.

Yes. Photo Transfer runs on Android tablets as well as phones. On tablets, transfers and settings open in centered dialogs, and on a phone you can use the app in landscape too.

Yes. Start the transfer, then leave the app: it keeps going, with a notice that shows its progress and a Stop button. When it's done, a notification tells you how it went, and the transfer screen shows the result when you come back. New transfers can't start while the app is in the background.

Yes. Files already on your computer, your NAS, your cloud folder, or your phone aren't copied again. When you receive photos on your phone, or send to a network drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, a file counts as already there when it has the same name and exactly the same size, and the transfer screen shows how many were skipped. On a computer, the Windows app checks the name, date, and size, and the Mac app checks the name and size. A different file with the same name is still saved, as a separate copy. Flickr uploads and web browser downloads aren't checked.

Yes, if the card is your phone's main storage. Received photos and videos are saved to the main storage — photos in Pictures, videos in Movies — so they appear in your gallery right away, and on phones that use the microSD card as their main (adoptable) storage, that's the card. If the card is portable storage instead, Photo Transfer can't save to it directly; move the files there afterwards with your phone's Files app. Photos already on a microSD card show up in Photo Transfer, and you can send them like any other.

Yes. All you need is a local connection between the two devices — usually a shared WiFi network. If there's no WiFi network around, you can enable your phone's hotspot and connect the other device to it — transfers still run locally with no internet used. With the Windows app, you can also connect a USB cable and turn on USB tethering.

Google Photos and Google Drive upload your files to the cloud first. For local transfers, Photo Transfer sends photos directly between devices over WiFi at full quality, without a Google account. Cloud backup is a separate, optional feature.

Yes. With the latest version of Photo Transfer on both phones, Live Photos sent from an iPhone arrive as Motion Photos, which Google Photos and most gallery apps can play. The photo part is saved as a JPG; to receive just the photo instead, turn off Convert Live Photos to Motion Photos in the app's settings. Motion Photos you send to an iPhone arrive there as Live Photos.

Yes, with PRO. Photo Transfer connects to network drives over SMB (Windows, Mac, and NAS shared folders) or WebDAV (Nextcloud, NAS, and web servers). Enter your server's address and login once, then send photos to any folder — from the app or the Share menu — or browse the drive and download photos back to your phone. Files go directly between your phone and your server.

Free: up to 5 photos or videos per batch. PRO: unlimited items per batch. Full resolution in both.

All common photo formats (JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF, RAW), Motion Photos, and video formats (MP4, MOV, MKV, and more). Photos keep their EXIF data, including the capture date, camera settings, and GPS location.