Beam text between phone and PC
That link on your phone that needs to be on your laptop. The wifi password. A one-time code. Beam it straight across — no emailing yourself, no chat app, no cloud clipboard.
Open this page on both devices. One shows a short room code, the other types it, and the telegram window stays open all session — both directions, every message with a copy button on arrival.
Different networks? (not on the same wifi)
Off, everything stays on your wifi. On, a public STUN server helps devices on separate networks meet — and learns your IP in the process, though never your messages.
Your room code
On the joining device, open filemonkey.org/text-beam, tap this device joins, and punch in this code —
warming up the link…
Type the code from the starting device
Whatever the starting device shows, punch it in and tap connect. Letters and digits both count; spaces won't trip it up.
connecting…
looking for the starting device…
the window opens by itself the moment the two devices meet.
The long way round, retired
Everyone has a workaround for moving one line of text between their own devices: emailing yourself, a private chat with only you in it, a notes app that syncs through somebody's data center. All of them push your text out to the internet so it can come back into the same room. The telegram window here skips the trip — after a one-time code handshake, your phone and your computer hold a direct encrypted channel across the wifi, and text appears on the other screen the moment you send it, with a copy button already attached.
The pairing is deliberately small: a tiny matchmaker introduces your two devices by the code — your messages still travel straight device-to-device and never pass through it. So once the pair is linked, every dispatch crosses your own router alone, never a chat log or a cloud clipboard. The mailroom notes unpack how the introduction works.
Good uses for a telegram window
- Long URLs and password-reset links from phone → PC without typing.
- Two-factor and one-time codes that expire before email would arrive.
- Wifi passwords, addresses, IBANs — things too fiddly to retype and too sensitive for a chat log.
- Snippets between your own machines while pair-debugging or setting up a new device.
Whole files to move, not just words? The main counter beams those — same pairing, with progress bars and hash-sealed delivery.