One of the major feature here is the Tasker integration which opens flood gates to a number of contraptions that can be set up. The additional things you can do is get a screenshot, request location data, remotely ring your phone, send Chrome tabs and links. Incoming notifications ( including SMS), clipboard content and few other things will automatically get synced across devices. After this initial setup, no intervention is needed.

The default screen shows the devices list which are attached with your account, and selecting one of them opens a chat-style UI, much like Pushbullet. Setup for Join straightforward, install the app from the Play Store, install the required extensions for browser, log in with your Google account and you are done. I have used both the apps for the last few months extensively across three devices, Android, my Windows laptop & desktop PC. Join brought all the major features that Pushbullet had without the monthly pay model. But that changed with the release of Join. That did not go well with some users as there where no replacements available. All was good and happy until they introduced paid subscription and put two of the most sought after features behind a paywall. It offers clipboard sync, file transfer and notification mirroring across platforms, which also includes iOS. The most famous app that comes to mind is Pushbullet. While this dream is nearing towards physical reality with the next Windows 10 update & Android N, few apps have been filling the gap for the last few years.

Concepts have been imagined where one instantly gets a mirrored notification on Windows, and you respond to it directly, without even once touching your phone. It has always been the dream of every Android power user to have some kind of seamless integration across his/her Windows PC and Android Phone.

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