Macinroid Download
The Macinroid icon: a phone with arrows pointing up and down

Android files,
the Mac way.

Macinroid moves photos, videos and files between your Mac and an Android phone over USB. Plug in your phone, and its storage opens in a window that works the way Finder does.

Download for Mac

Free · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Macinroid showing the Camera folder of a Pixel 9 Pro as thumbnails, with the phone's internal storage, SD card and folders in the sidebar
  • No driversNothing else to install
  • NativeWritten in Swift and SwiftUI
  • UniversalApple silicon and Intel
  • NotarizedSigned and checked by Apple
Features

Everything you know from Finder.
Now for your phone.

No new app to learn. Your phone's files appear in a familiar window, and moving them works the way it does everywhere else on your Mac.

Drag and drop

Drag photos straight to your desktop, drop files onto the phone, or copy in one and paste in the other.

Thumbnails and Quick Look

See your photos and videos as pictures, in list and icon view. Press Space to Quick Look any file on the phone.

Storage and SD card

Switch between the phone's internal storage and its SD card from the sidebar, with DCIM, Pictures and Download a click away.

Space at a glance

See how much room is left on the phone as you browse, and find its details under Device Info.

Light, dark and Liquid Glass

Follows your Mac's appearance, and wears Liquid Glass on macOS 26.

Made for the keyboard

Download, upload, rename, Quick Look and go back and forth with the shortcuts you would expect.

  • Drop files on the Dock icon to copy them to the phone.
  • Two panes, if you like: show your Mac's files beside the phone's.
  • A notification when a long transfer has finished.
  • Updates offered in the app when a new version is out.
Transfers

Big copies,
clearly shown.

Send a whole folder of videos and Macinroid counts the files first, so you see how far along the copy really is.

  • ProgressOf the whole copy, not one file at a time
  • SpeedAnd the time left, as it goes
  • CancelAny time, with ⌘.
A copy to the phone in progress: 47 MB of 151 MB at 22 MB/s, with a few seconds left and a button to cancel
Device Info

Know your phone.

The phone's name, maker, software version and serial number, and how full its internal storage and SD card are, in one place. Press ⌘I.

The Device Info sheet: a Google Pixel 9 Pro, software version 16, with 114.7 GB free of 256 GB internal storage and 51.2 GB free of a 64 GB SD card
Under the hood

Built from scratch, in Swift.

Android phones share their files over MTP, the Media Transfer Protocol. Macinroid speaks it itself, through macOS's own USB framework, so there is nothing else to install. It is a native rewrite of OpenMTP for the Mac.

  • 0drivers or helper apps to install
  • 0bundled libraries: the MTP engine is Swift
  • 1universal app for Apple silicon and Intel
Shortcuts

Keep your hands on the keys.

  • ⌘DDownload
  • ⌘UUpload
  • SpaceQuick Look
  • ⌘CCopy, to paste in Finder
  • ⇧⌘NNew folder
  • ⌘↑Enclosing folder
  • ⌘1Icons, or ⌘2 for a list
  • ⇧⌘.Show hidden files

Help ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts lists them all.

Get started

Connected in a minute.

  1. Plug in your phone

    Open Macinroid and connect the phone with a USB cable that carries data. Some cables only charge.

  2. Choose File Transfer

    Unlock the phone, tap the Charging this device via USB notification, and under Use USB for choose File Transfer.

  3. Allow access

    If the phone asks Allow access to phone data?, tap Allow. Its storage appears in the window.

Nothing showing up? Help ▸ Macinroid Help walks through the usual causes.

Get Macinroid.

Free, for macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

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