Join by joaoapps

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Join by joaoapps

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By: joaomgcd
Version: 3.0.9 (Last updated: 2024-07-15)
Creation date: 2016-03-09
Permissions
Device & app history: read sensitive log data
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device, read your contacts
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
SMS:
  • read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
  • receive text messages (MMS)
  • receive text messages (SMS)
  • send SMS messages
Phone:
  • directly call phone numbers
  • read call log
  • read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • modify secure system settings
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
  • full network access
  • change your audio settings
  • run at startup
  • set wallpaper
  • draw over other apps
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

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App summary

Join allows you to easily do stuff remotely on your Android and PC devices like SMS, notifications, clipboard, and much more!

As Featured on:
☑ Android Police: In short: this app is powerful http://goo.gl/MbEi96
☑ Android Headlines: Join clearly has a lot to offer http://goo.gl/Bwvivq
☑ AndroidGuys: Best thing since Pushbullet http://goo.gl/zSYUaj
And more!!

30 day trial - one time $4.99 payment to unlock
Try the app for free for a month, then unlock it with a one time payment to continue using it

Notifications
Receive notifications from Android and interact with them on any device using your Google account. For example, you can reply to a Whatsapp message from your PC. Notifications use the standard Windows Action Center with the Windows 10 app. Make sure to enable the Notification Sync settings in the Android app.

SMS, MMS and Group messages from any web browser
Be it Android, PC, or even iOS, you can send SMS messages from any web browser with your Google account: http://joaoapps.com/join-sms-from-anything-with-a-browser/

Clipboard Sharing
You can manually or automatically share your clipboard between devices. On Android you get a handy clipboard bubble for easy sharing. Think chat heads for your clipboard

Google Assistant
Use Join with Google Assistant and Tasker to control anything anywhere: https://joaoapps.com/google-assistant-ifttt-join-tasker-awesomeness/

Remote Writing
Write stuff directly in any Android app from your PC or any other device. To do this, Join uses an accessibility service on your device. Important: this service is optional and is ONLY used to remotely write text on your device. It doesn't collect or share any personal data.

Open web pages remotely
Quickly open a web page on another device. For example, you can send a page from your PC to your phone or from your phone to your PC

Files
Send files from any device to any other device and optionally automatically open the file when it arrives.

Installing Apps Remotely
On your request, Join allows you to send an an APK (app file) from your PC and receive it on your Android device where the prompt to install it will show up! Note: installing APKs remotely requires the REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES permission.

File Browsing
With the Join Desktop app, you can remotely browse all files on your Android device from your PC: https://joaoapps.com/join/desktop. Note: This feature requires the permission to Manage All Files on your device, as it functions just like a remote file browser/manager.

Screenshots
Get a quick screenshot from your Android device on your other devices

Wallpaper
Quickly set your Android or PC wallpaper while browsing the web in Chrome

Location
Find your Android device by getting its location or making it ring really loud

Deep Tasker Integration
Make Join your own by pushing stuff from Tasker, changing any of the app's settings and querying your devices. You can totally make your own customized Join app if you want :)

End-to-end encryption
Join can send any sensitive data encrypted if you set a password

Google Drive as storage
Your personal data (like your SMS messages for example) is kept privately on your Google Drive. Shared files are also kept there so that you can easily access them later.


Join uses a server on Google App Engine (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/) to optimize and simplify message pushing from device to device.

This app uses Accessibility services

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Offers useful functionalities such as sending SMS/MMS and notifications.
  • More reliable than some competitors like Pushbullet.
  • Helpful developer who responds to user issues.
  • Allows data sharing between devices seamlessly.
  • Cost-effective compared to other services with similar features.
Cons
  • Inconsistent reliability and performance, especially with notifications and SMS.
  • Complicated to set up and use, lacking clear instructions.
  • Chrome extension frequently changes names, causing confusion.
  • Certain features require additional permissions that can be intrusive.
  • Limited support for Windows and Firefox, affecting user experience.
Most mentioned
  • Unreliable performance regarding notifications and SMS.
  • Steep learning curve and complications in setup.
  • Developer responsiveness and support experiences.
  • Comparison with Pushbullet regarding functionality.
  • Desire for better integration across different platforms.
User reviews
Great when it works....which is sometimes. I really want to like this app. The developer has made a big effort and it has lots of great capabilities. When it works, it's awesome. Unfortunately, it often does not work. It may be that Google has just made it too hard to do this as Android OS has progressed. I use this app a lot but I have no expectation of success and have to constantly check. Steve Hogan wrote a review in 2021. Sadly my experience now in 2023 is very much similar to then.
by Michael J, 2023-02-09

Extremely complicated to figure out how to use. It's so complicated that I simply don't know how to use this app. My phone contacts aren't in this app so I can't send any messages. There are no instructions or anything on how to figure that out. I constantly get some bizarre dialog box that says Background Location Permission but I don't understand what that means and what I need to do with that. I'm thinking this is an app for techies and not your everyday average person.
by Mark M., 2022-10-23

I would give a better rating if the chrome extension didn't constantly change names. I have renamed it numerous times because it keeps changing its own name. Until that is fixed, I can't reasonably give it 5 ⭐. The features are irrelevant if you don't know the current name of the device your sending it to. This is been doing this for a while, but I just hadn't updated my reading until now, because I hoped it would stop acting up. I'm tempted to just switch back to Pushbullet. It never did this.
by bahrta sai, 2022-02-03
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