You're halfway through a video in Chrome on your Windows PC and need to get up. Tap your Android phone on a tag, or press Open on phone in Carrio, and it carries on in the YouTube app right where you were. Your PC pauses itself.
Wake your phone and tap it on the sticker. You don't need to open anything first.
Open Carrio on your phone and press Open on phone. It's one more step, and you can try it without buying anything.
Sort of. If you're signed in on both devices with watch history on, YouTube usually picks up roughly where you left off, and that's handy.
Carrio is about the moment you switch. One tap opens the video on your phone straight away, at the point you're at, and pauses your PC. You don't need to be signed in on the PC, and you don't have to go looking for the video.
There are a few, and they all work. Here's how they compare.
Carrio's for when you want it to be one tap.
From your PC to your phone, very close. It opens where you were, sometimes a second or two earlier, because YouTube decides exactly where playback starts. From your phone to your PC, a shared video starts at the time in its link if it has one, and from the beginning if it doesn't.
Yes. Switch off "Pause here after Open on phone" in Carrio's settings on your PC.
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.
No. Open on phone is a button in the app (or tap the video's card), and going from your phone to your PC is your phone's Share menu. Tags make it one tap without opening the app first, and a couple of things live on tags for now, like Current tab and Smart. I'd grab a pack, but you can try the main thing without one.
It's free, and you can try it with the button before you buy any tags.
