HearthWire: Home File Transfer

Your home already has a network. HearthWire finally lets you use it.

Your films, your photos and your documents are scattered across a PC, a laptop, this phone and maybe a television. Moving anything between them means finding a cable, emailing it to yourself, or uploading your private files to a company's cloud and waiting twice.

HearthWire connects them directly, over the Wi-Fi you already pay for. Files go the short way: from the device that holds them to the device in your hand. Nothing is uploaded, and no company sits in the middle.

ONE APP, EVERY SCREEN IN THE HOUSE
HearthWire is a family, not a single app. It runs on:
• Windows PCs
• Macs
• Android TV
• This phone, and Android tablets

Install it on each device you want to include and they all join one private home network, where every device can reach every other. A phone and a television alone is enough. No computer required.

WHY PEOPLE BUY IT
• You filmed the whole holiday on your phone and want it on the computer, all of it, instead of selecting twenty photos at a time.
• You downloaded a film on the computer and want to watch it in bed, without copying six gigabytes to the phone first.
• Someone in the family cannot find a document, and explaining it over the phone is going nowhere. See their screen and do it for them.
• The television should be playing what is on your phone, and there is no computer in the house at all.
• You would simply rather your private files did not sit on somebody else's server.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT
• Send any file to a computer straight from the share sheet
• Receive files from a computer, saved into your Downloads
• Open the folders your computers share, with picture previews
• Play a film straight from a computer, without downloading it first
• Show this phone's screen on the television, with sound, so everyone can see it
• Share this phone's Downloads, Music, Photos and Videos, so a computer or the television can reach them with no cable
• Make voice calls between the phone and a computer
• See and control a computer's screen, to help someone in the family
• Send messages to every device in the house
• Start a home network from the phone itself, and approve the devices that join it

SET IT UP IN ABOUT A MINUTE
1. Install HearthWire on this phone and on the other device.
2. On one of them, create your home network and give it a name.
3. On the other, tap Find networks and choose it.
4. Both screens show the same six digits. Check they match and approve.

That is the entire setup. Nothing to register, no password to invent, no email address to hand over.

BIG FILES ARE FINE
No size limit and no upload step. A film moves at the speed of your own Wi-Fi rather than your internet connection, and it never leaves the house on the way.

IT WORKS WITHOUT THE INTERNET
HearthWire uses your local network only. When the internet is down, everything here still works.

A NOTE ABOUT FILMS SAVED FROM CHAT APPS
If a film arrived through Telegram or WhatsApp, open it and choose Save to Downloads or Save to Gallery. Until you do, the file stays locked inside that app, where nothing else on your phone can reach it, HearthWire included.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION, NOT BY PROMISE
Nothing leaves your home network. Traffic between devices is encrypted, and a new device joins only after a person confirms that the same six digits appear on both screens. We collect nothing at all: no account, no tracking, no telemetry, no adverts. There is no server of ours for your files to pass through, because there is no server.

WHAT YOU NEED
At least two devices running HearthWire on the same Wi-Fi: this phone, and either a Windows PC, a Mac, an Android TV or a second phone. The computer apps are on the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store. Details at hearth-software.com.

ONE PURCHASE
Buy it once. No subscription, no sign-up, nothing to renew.