The OnePlus Clipt app is a new tool from OnePlus' OneLabs team that lets you share text, photos and files between your phone, tablet and laptop. With the OnePlus Clipt app installed, you can copy something on one device and paste it on another, or move files across devices without the usual hassle of emailing them to yourself. It is designed to make the everyday job of getting content from one screen to another quick and seamless.
What the OnePlus Clipt app does
Built by the OneLabs team of China's well-known technology company OnePlus, Clipt enables clipboard-style features across many devices. Users can copy text from their phone and paste it on their computer, and send text, photos and files to their phones, tablets and laptops. The app and its Chrome extension create a link between your devices that connects to the clipboard, so once installed, content copied on one device can be pasted on another, or files can be sent between multiple devices.
The idea is simple but useful: instead of juggling cables, messaging apps or self-addressed emails, Clipt acts as a shared clipboard that follows you across your hardware. Whether it is a snippet of text, an image or a document, you copy on one device and it becomes available to paste or download on the others linked to your account.
Availability and platform support
The Clipt app is available for Android users on the Google Play store for smartphones and tablets. For Windows and Mac users, Clipt is available as a Chrome extension. iPhone users will have to wait a little longer, because OnePlus will soon launch the app for iOS as well. This makes it a handy cross-device sharing option within the wider OnePlus ecosystem.
Supported platforms at a glance
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Android phones and tablets | Available on Google Play store |
| Windows | Available as a Chrome extension |
| Mac | Available as a Chrome extension |
| iOS (iPhone) | Coming soon |
| Data transfer | Uses your Google Drive |
How file sharing works
Emailing files to yourself has long been the workaround for moving content between devices, but that approach is limited to attachments of up to 25MB. With Clipt, larger files move easily from one device to another, removing the size ceiling that email imposes. Clipt uses your Google Drive for data transfer, so you have to sign in with the same Google account on the device where you want to transfer the file.
Because the transfer is routed through your own Google Drive, the setup is straightforward: link your devices, sign in with the same Google account, and the shared clipboard takes care of moving your text, photos and files across them. This makes Clipt especially handy when you need to send a larger document or a batch of images that would otherwise bounce off an email attachment limit.
Security and privacy
OnePlus stated that the data shared with Clipt is secure. The company said that in the permissions, users will see a request to read and write your Google storage, but Clipt can only download the files it produces. In the app or extension, the company keeps only the last 10 files available to users, after which they are deleted automatically, so the storage never gets filled.
