I’ve always been on the lookout for a really quick way to send links from iOS to the Mac. I almost always just browse the web on an iPad or iPhone, which I usually prefer to a full PC. But periodically I’ll come across a site that would be better to read on the Mac, whether it be because of a Flash video, or just slugginess of some sites with the lesser CPU.

I’ve tried a number of different utilities for this problem. I tried the iPhone app Pastebot which is pretty nice, and also ClipTwin. These are both dedicated to exchanging clipboard contents between iOS and the Mac. But I find them to be too clunky overall. There’s too much clicking at both ends of the transfer just to open the link. I found myself never using them because of this friction, even if I stuck the apps on my homescreen.

There are a couple of other clever apps that are nice at opening links from the Mac in iOS by sending the clipboard contents as push notifications. But almost always, I want to go in the other direction, from iOS to Mac. You can use the whole “read later” thing built into Safari and it will sync between Safari in iOS and the Mac, but I find that to be slow to sync, and requires too many clicks on both ends again.

I came across a new (free) Mac app called Send2mac. It’s a tiny Mac app (so tiny it has no interface, just running along in the background). On iOS (or maybe any phone/tablet/PC at all?), you just install a special bookmark with a unique identifier in it. There’s no app on this end.

Then, every time you click the bookmark when a webpage is open, it immediately opens that page in your default browser on the Mac. There is zero clicking on the Mac. It’s just there. If your Mac is asleep, it seems to open as soon as it wakes up. I like this whole “no clicking” thing. I think this is almost the perfect level of friction for me to actually use it.