7 Best Tools to Manage Android with Mac – Android devices particularly miserable, because even the most ordinary of tasks such as transferring files between the Mac and the handheld require a special utility and doesn’t work on the natural Finder. Google offers Android File Transfer, which looks and works like it belongs in the early 2000’s.
7 best Android tools for Mac.
1. AirDroid
AirDroid will push notifications, call alerts and app alerts to your desktop, some even with quick-reply support right from the computer. The setup enables full Android mirroring on your Mac as well, making it possible to interact with your entire device from the comfort of a mouse/keyboard combo. Additionally, AirDroid enables whole file sharing between your devices, and without needing any cables, making it the best overall solution for all your Android/Mac management needs. It’s surely superior to the Android File Transfer that Google offers for the Apple platform.
AirDroid offers a lot of features in the free version while others require a paid version of the app. In the premium version, starting at $1.99/month, we get a more on offer, including unlimited file transfer in remote connections, transfer of complete folders as opposed to just files, remote camera, multiple devices with one account, and etc.,
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2. Wondershare MobileGo for Android Pro
This Mac desktop manager for Android is a full-package offering giving device backup and restore, selective backup, content management, file transfer and sync, text message management, and more. In a nutshell, Mobile for Android Pro as a solution for Mac similar to what iTunes is for iPhone. The backups we create, for instance, can be full device backups or partial ones, and can easily be restored with one click. Transferring content, photos, videos and music is really easy, and with music, the support even extends to the native iTunes, making MobileGo infinitely more useful. We get the option to send and reply to text messaged, with an added benefit of creating an SMS backup should we want to save some of these texts. The software comes with an app manager for easy installation and uninstallation.
MobileGo is a really great package, with the only warning being the rather high price point.
3.Helium App Sync & Backup
Titanium Backup was the ultimate backup solution for Android, but not any longer. If we looking for purely an app sync and backup solution for your Android that works with Mac.
The utility comes from Koush the famous developer behind ClockworkMod recovery and other related products. The premise behind Helium is that allows to backup and sync not just the regular calls, messages, logs and settings, but also all your installed apps including associated data to your computer’s local storage, a cloud storage solution, or even between Android devices. Being a blogger, it frequently migrates from one device to another, and Helium has been a lifesaver every time.
Helium works primarily on your Android device with an additional desktop app. For the app to work, we have to connect it with a PC using USB cable the first time we run it, and will need to repeat this workout every time we reboot your device. Furthermore, the Android app works independently, and allows to select what to backup and where, and how frequently. While Helium is a free app, there’s a premium version that will remove ads, enable cloud and scheduled backups, sync between Android devices and more. The premium version costs just $4.99, it’s a highly recommended.
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4. Pushbullet/PushPal
Pushbullet is basically an online service that allows for “pushing” of content from desktop to the phone and the other way about without needing a dedicated desktop app. The service is available for both Android and iOS and works out of several popular browsers, including Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc. The service allows viewing and responding to Android notifications from your desktop, get notified of different events, share files and links, chat and various other things. Really Pushbullet is its customizability using services like IFTTT or even Tasker, making Pushbullet an noticeable choice.
PushPal is a third-party Mac desktop app for Pushbullet that lives in your Mac’s menu bar and makes it a lot easier to access Pushbullet content. Pushbullet has an official Windows app and PushPal replicates that experience on the Mac. We can drag content and files that we need to push to your phone to the menu bar icon. If we end up using Pushbullet, PushPal is definitely a valuable addition.
5.doubleTwist Sync for Mac
Mac users having Android smartphones face is not being able to sync their music stored in iTunes with their Android device. doubleTwist app comes with its own interface that will automatically pick your iTunes music library and your Android device once it’s connected to the Mac through USB cable. doubleTwist Sync for Mac also supports two-way syncing, ensuring that any changes we make to your library on your device are reflected in your iTunes library, from new playlists to metadata changes to track additions/removals. The free version of doubleTwist Sync relies uniquely on the USB cable, but we can make an in-app purchase to enable AirSync, which will do the same without relying on a hardware connection.
6.Google Photos/Drive Combo
Using an Android phone with a Mac was not being able to keep my photo library in sync with my desktop. We have a ton of photos in Mac’s Photos app, and there’s no reasonable way of syncing the whole entity with my Galaxy S7 edge. Enter Google Photos. Google Photos is Google’s own cloud storage for photos with unlimited storage for high-quality images. we install the app on your phone and enable backup. The challenge with Google Photos, but it doesn’t have a companion desktop app for either Mac or Windows, which basically means that while your photos are safe in the cloud, they don’t get synced with your computer and it’s a multi-step process.
- Download theGoogle Photos Desktop uploader on your Mac and install it. This will help get all your existing Mac photos into Google Photos.
- Import your photo library from the Mac Photos app into the uploader, and wait for it to finish uploading everything into the cloud. The process will depend on the size of your photo library as well as your internet connection speed.
- Download and install theGoogle Drive app on your Mac.
- Go to drive.google.com, and sign in with your Google Account. In Drive settings, enable the option for Creating a Google Photos folder.
- Now all your Google Photos will sync with a dedicated folder within your Google Drive folder. This is a limited two-way sync, though anything we delete in the Google Drive folder will also get deleted from Google Photos, but anything added to Google Drive will not get automatically added to Google Photos. Additions still occur only through the Desktop Uploader or via the Google Photos Android app or web interface.
7.Samsung SideSync
- SideSync is Samsung’s own, free, desktop manager for Samsung Android phones. SideSync will work any Samsung Galaxy device running Android KitKat. SideSync sits in the bottom of your screen and allows pretty much everything that we expect from a desktop manager app showing and responding to notifications, mirroring the entire device and its contents, transferring files and media we name it. SideSync is the fact that it’s totally free with no warnings attached, has a great interface, and just works. The device mirroring functionality is especially for people who often need to take screenshots, as SideSync will enable capturing screen. SideSync also enables sharing your PC’s keyboard and mouse with the phone, which comes in pretty when playing games or responding to texts.
- SideSync works over both USB connection (faster) and WiFi both and is available for Mac and Windows.
