Chute transforms your Mac's notch into a portal directly to your iPhone. Drag any screenshot, link, or file up to it and it sends straight to your iPhone in a flash.
Hi Product Hunt! I made Chute, something that I have been using dozens of delightful times a day that I wanted to share -- the other day I was posting an ig story and wanted to drop in a screenshot of something I was working on in figma and realized:
a) there is no easy way to do this
b) handoff sucks and works half the time
c) airdrop share flow is clunky
so i built something that is butter smooth and 10x faster!
This is genuinely the fastest way to get anything from your mac to iPhone.
I'm so happy to finally be able to share it with the world and launch here on PH!
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@jacksonfall This is interesting Jackson. Congratulations on the launch!
@rayhan_khilji thanks Rayhan! it’s one of those things that once you feel it, you can never go back
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@jacksonfall Called it: this is the tool. Airdrop's share flow has been clunky for a decade and nobody at Apple seems to care. Chute actually feels instant. Congrats on shipping, Jackson. Well earned.
@jonnyoctober My man! Appreciate that. I feel 100% the same
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Interesting, how does this handle heavy videos (prores .mov files, 1 to 5gb)? I've been struggling with airdrop, it randomly freezes in the middle of transfers and it's very annoying. Downloading from dropbox works but is slower. I'd love a very simple product that just works.
@brice_afonso Hey Brice! Thanks for your comment -- definitely designed this with more everyday file transfers in mind. My original use case was actually just for screenshots. It quickly expanded beyond that when I realized I could reliably send deeplinks (like google maps places, instagram reels, spotify songs...)
Chute uses AirDrop under the hood though — so big video files may still be a problem, not something we're solving for here.
What Chute kills is the overhead on everything else: drag any file to the notch, let go, it's on your phone in a flash. No Finder, no right-click-share-sheet, no picking your device out of a list.
For your non-prores-heavy-lift stuff, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with how much time it can save you!
@shivampatel9 Yes!! Grab and drag any link to the notch. If it corresponds to an app on your phone it’ll even open in that app.
Basically, anything you can click and drag you can Chute.
@jacksonfall awesome, works brilliantly! would love to have the reverse for iPhone to Mac, is that a possibility?
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@jacksonfall@shivampatel9 I definitely agree. I'd love to send random things to my mac while I'm away from home. That way when I get to my desk I can review in detail everything I shared.
genuinely curious what this does that AirDrop doesn't already - is it just the notch drag-target UX that's faster than opening the share sheet, or is there something happening under the hood, like skipping the AirDrop discovery handshake that sometimes hangs for me between a Mac and an iPhone?
@omri_ben_shoham1 You got it! It automates and bypasses the (open finder, right click, share, airdrop, pick device...) share sheet -- when you set up Chute, you "pair" with your iPhone so when you drop anything (screenshot, link, files) into Chute it goes straight to your device. In the demo video, you can see the Airdrop sheet flashes up for a fraction of a second and then auto-dismisses.
I launched, then kept shipping like someone who finally has a product to write release notes for.
1.0 “Magnolia” — 7-day free trial (this is new — launch day was buy-to-try; everyone else can actually try it now) + license keys with updates for life, over-the-air updates from the menu, fixed the drop zone being a few pixels off the notch (thanks Chris), smoother onboarding.
1.0.1 — the big one: the system AirDrop sheet is gone. Chute is actually seamless now. Phone-off nudge lives in the notch. Jeremy told me to hide the sheet; I said that was ludicrous; I was wrong.
1.0.2 (today) — progress bar while files send, large files that used to time out, cancel/decline/fail from the phone clears Mac “Sending…” instead of hanging, smoother tuck after send.
Same deal: notch → iPhone, 7-day trial, $10 forever.
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Keza
@jacksonfall This is interesting Jackson. Congratulations on the launch!
Keza
@rayhan_khilji thanks Rayhan! it’s one of those things that once you feel it, you can never go back
@jacksonfall Called it: this is the tool. Airdrop's share flow has been clunky for a decade and nobody at Apple seems to care. Chute actually feels instant. Congrats on shipping, Jackson. Well earned.
Keza
@jonnyoctober My man! Appreciate that. I feel 100% the same
Interesting, how does this handle heavy videos (prores .mov files, 1 to 5gb)? I've been struggling with airdrop, it randomly freezes in the middle of transfers and it's very annoying. Downloading from dropbox works but is slower. I'd love a very simple product that just works.
Keza
@brice_afonso Hey Brice! Thanks for your comment -- definitely designed this with more everyday file transfers in mind. My original use case was actually just for screenshots. It quickly expanded beyond that when I realized I could reliably send deeplinks (like google maps places, instagram reels, spotify songs...)
Chute uses AirDrop under the hood though — so big video files may still be a problem, not something we're solving for here.
What Chute kills is the overhead on everything else: drag any file to the notch, let go, it's on your phone in a flash. No Finder, no right-click-share-sheet, no picking your device out of a list.
For your non-prores-heavy-lift stuff, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with how much time it can save you!
Hope you enjoy :)
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@jacksonfall very cool! is there a way to send website URLs / tabs open in Chrome?
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@jacksonfall awesome, works brilliantly! would love to have the reverse for iPhone to Mac, is that a possibility?
@jacksonfall @shivampatel9 I definitely agree. I'd love to send random things to my mac while I'm away from home. That way when I get to my desk I can review in detail everything I shared.
Keza
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Let’s go! This feels like magic
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genuinely curious what this does that AirDrop doesn't already - is it just the notch drag-target UX that's faster than opening the share sheet, or is there something happening under the hood, like skipping the AirDrop discovery handshake that sometimes hangs for me between a Mac and an iPhone?
Keza
@omri_ben_shoham1 You got it! It automates and bypasses the (open finder, right click, share, airdrop, pick device...) share sheet -- when you set up Chute, you "pair" with your iPhone so when you drop anything (screenshot, link, files) into Chute it goes straight to your device. In the demo video, you can see the Airdrop sheet flashes up for a fraction of a second and then auto-dismisses.
I'm biased, but I find it to be quite smooth!
Keza
One week since Chute hit Product Hunt.
I launched, then kept shipping like someone who finally has a product to write release notes for.
1.0 “Magnolia” — 7-day free trial (this is new — launch day was buy-to-try; everyone else can actually try it now) + license keys with updates for life, over-the-air updates from the menu, fixed the drop zone being a few pixels off the notch (thanks Chris), smoother onboarding.
1.0.1 — the big one: the system AirDrop sheet is gone. Chute is actually seamless now. Phone-off nudge lives in the notch. Jeremy told me to hide the sheet; I said that was ludicrous; I was wrong.
1.0.2 (today) — progress bar while files send, large files that used to time out, cancel/decline/fail from the phone clears Mac “Sending…” instead of hanging, smoother tuck after send.
Same deal: notch → iPhone, 7-day trial, $10 forever.
Try it: https://chute.fyi
If you bounced at launch because there was no trial — this is the week to come back.
—Jackson