Omnipaste Editor's Review

Quickly swap between your PC and your smartphone with this hot utility.

One of the biggest features of OSX 10.10 Yosemite is Continuity.  With it, your Mac and your iPhone are connected via BT-LE and you can stop and start working with documents and data on one of your devices and then the other. The big problem with this, however, is that that feature only works between a Mac running Yosemite and an iPhone running iOS 8.  While most Apple users may have this combination, Windows users using Android smartphones will be left out in the cold – until now.  Thanks to Omnipaste, Android Phone users will have the same type of opportunity with their devices on Windows machines.

Omnipaste allows you to share copied text between your Windows PC and your Android phone.  The app works in nearly the same way as the connection between a Mac and an iPhone.  Information is automatically and immediately passed between your Windows PC and your Android phone as soon as you copy the information to one of the device's clipboards. 

With Omnipaste's Smart Clippings, you can search for information on your PC and then copy the data to your clipboard.  When it syncs to your Android phone, you can call (if you copied a phone number) or navigate to a destination (if you copied a street address).  Smart Clippings makes integrating your total computing experience more complete.

One of the coolest things about Omnipaste is its ability to pass notifications from your Android device to your Windows PC. If your devices are connected, you'll know when your phone rings or when you get a text message.  Both will display on your PC.

App Pro’s: Provides cut/ paste support between Android devices and Windows PCs, supports notifications (including phone calls)

App Con’s: Doesn't work for Windows Phone (yet) or iOS. Android only support. Navigation didn't work on my HTC One (M8) when copying over a street address

Conclusion: There's a great deal of potential here. This is a totally awesome app.  While there are some opportunities for improvement here, if you're an Android user, then you really need to check this out.  I think this is going to be one of the biggest apps of the year.

While the app doesn't support Windows Phone as yet, it is on the company's development road map.  Other planned features include the ability to use your Windows PC as a speaker phone instead of just a caller ID station.  The only feature that didn't work for me was navigation integration when copying over a street address. I'm not sure if that's because Google Maps put line feed/ carriage returns in the address I copied, or if it was something else.  However, if you have a Windows PC and an Android Phone, this is a must, MUST have.