That link belongs on your phone.
Found something on your computer that you need on your phone? Push it. The PocketAlert Chrome extension sends a link or a note from your browser toolbar to your iPhone or Android in one click — the link arrives tappable, and every note stays in a history synced across your devices.
Computer to phone, without the self-email
The link is on the big screen and you need it on the small one. One click beats emailing yourself, and the note is still there next week.
One click from the toolbar
The send form lives in your browser toolbar. Paste, pick a device, send — drafts survive the popup closing.
Links arrive tappable
URLs in the message are tappable on the phone and open straight in your browser.
Pick a device or all
Send to the phone in your pocket or broadcast to every device on the account.
Nothing gets lost
Every link and note stays in a history synced across phone, web dashboard, and extension.
Silent notes via API
From the API or terminal, send with level silent — no sound, no vibration, just there in history.
Terminal works too
Not in Chrome? One curl from any terminal or the CLI sends the same push.
Three steps to your pocket
Install & connect
Install the Chrome extension and paste an API key from your account into its settings.
Paste & send
Drop a link or note into the send form in your toolbar and pick a device — or all of them.
Tap it on your phone
The push lands in under a second. Tap the link on your phone and it opens in the browser.
Send your first link
1. Install the extension
Add Pocket Alert from the Chrome Web Store — it works in Chrome and Edge. See the extension page for a tour.
2. Connect your account
Open the extension, go to Settings, and paste an API key from the API Keys page. The key stays in your browser.
3. Paste and send
Drop the link or note into the send form, choose one device or all, and hit send. It lands on your phone in under a second — tap the link to open it.
4. Or from any terminal
curl -X POST "https://api.pocketalert.app/v1/messages" \
-H "Token: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"title":"Read later","message":"https://example.com/that-article","level":"silent"}'Wrap it in a shell alias and tophone "some text" becomes muscle memory. The CLI tool does the same with less typing.
Questions, answered
Install the PocketAlert Chrome extension, paste the link or note into the send form in your toolbar, and pick a device — or broadcast to all of them. The push lands on your iPhone or Android in under a second, and the link in the message is tappable.
Close, with one honest difference: nothing syncs automatically. You choose what to push — a link, an address, a code snippet, a note — and only that crosses over. Everything you send stays in a history that is synced across your phone, the web dashboard, and the extension.
Yes. The send form lets you target a single device or broadcast to every device on your account — useful when the link is for your personal phone, not the family tablet.
Yes. Open the message on your phone and any URL in it is a tappable link that opens straight in your browser. No copying character by character from a notification.
The extension runs in Chrome and Chromium browsers like Edge. Anywhere else, one curl does the same job — Linux terminal, a Firefox keyworded bookmark to the web dashboard, or the PocketAlert CLI. Anything that can make an HTTP POST can send a note to your phone.
Notes sent from the extension arrive as regular notifications. When you send from a terminal or the API, add "level":"silent" and the note skips sound and vibration entirely — it just appears in your history for when you look. The free plan includes 50 messages a day, which is plenty of links.
Stop emailing yourself links.
Install the extension, paste your API key, and the next link crosses from your computer to your phone in a second.