Got an address, a code or a few paragraphs on your PC that you need on your phone? Copy it, tap your phone on a Copy paste tag, and it's on your phone, ready to paste. It works the other way round too.
Text only for now. Copy paste is off until you switch it on in Carrio on your PC.
And that's it. Copy something, tap the tag, paste.
You pick the direction when you write the tag.
| Tag | What a tap does |
|---|---|
| PC → Phone | Takes the text you last copied on your PC and puts it on your phone's clipboard. Press and hold wherever you're typing, and paste. |
| Phone → PC | Takes the text you last copied on your phone and puts it on your PC's clipboard. Ctrl+V, and it's there. |
| Smart | Goes from whichever side you copied on last, so one tag does both ways. |
All three work in the Android app on this site, because moving copied text doesn't need any special permission. Copy paste is off until you switch it on, on each PC you use it with.
The privacy page has everything both apps read, and where it goes.
You can, and it works. But it's a few steps every time, it leaves a copy in a chat or your email, and it goes through somebody's server on the way. With a tag it's copy, tap, paste, and the text goes straight from one to the other.
If you're after more than that, like your phone's notifications and files on your PC, KDE Connect and Phone Link are worth a look (compared here).
Only when you tap a Copy paste tag, and only once you've switched Copy paste on in Carrio on your PC (it's off until you do). Then the text goes straight between your phone and your PC over your own network, and nowhere else. It isn't logged or kept, and nothing reads your clipboard in between: while it's on, your PC only notes when something's copied, not what, so a Smart tag knows which side copied last. Android shows its own notice when the app reads what you copied. The one other time is copied links on your phone, which are off unless you switch them on too.
Password managers mark what they copy as private, and Carrio leaves those copies alone. Tap a Copy paste tag after copying a password, and the app says the copy is private and moves nothing. On your phone that needs Android 13 or later, because older versions don't mark private copies.
Up to 100,000 characters at a time: pages of text, a long log or a good chunk of code. Anything longer stays where it is, and the app tells you how long it was. It's text only for now, so pictures and files don't go across yet.
No. Your phone needs to reach your PC on the same network, usually your home Wi-Fi. That's also why there's no account or server: the two just talk to each other.
It's free. You'll need a tag for this one, and any NTAG213 sticker does the job.
