PixLaundry sends full-quality photos and 4K videos from your phone to the devices you already own — a spare Android phone, a Mac, or a Windows PC. Every file is checked on arrival, and next time only the new ones go.
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These frustrations come up again and again in iPhone, Pixel and photo-backup communities.
The banner keeps coming back, and the next tier is another monthly bill. In the US, 2 TB of iCloud+ is $9.99 a month — about $120 every year.
Price: Apple — iCloud+ plansiCloud Photos is a sync, not a backup — delete on your iPhone and it’s gone everywhere. Without a copy you trust, freeing up space feels like gambling with memories.
ProRes files can be up to 30 times larger than regular HEVC video. Messaging apps compress it, cables are slow, and cloud uploads crawl.
Size: Apple — About ProRes on iPhoneHEIC files that won’t open, imports that skip albums, and cables that drop halfway through a big batch.
You cleared a video from the cloud and now want it back. Uploading the very same file again doesn’t always bring it back.
Open the app, pick the photos, wait — and if it stops halfway, start over. Keeping up with a growing camera roll becomes a chore.
Originals stay originals — HEIC, ProRAW, ProRes, 4K HDR, never re-encoded.
Each file is fingerprinted while it streams and compared on arrival.
It remembers what each receiver already has — even photos saved late from chats or AirDrop.
Receivers are free on every platform. Pro is a single purchase.
Send from your iPhone or Android. Receive on whatever has room — a spare phone, a Mac with an external SSD, or the Windows PC under your desk.
Streams originals straight from your Photos library — no temp copies, no conversion. Can also receive into Photos.
Receives into the camera folder with the original capture date, keeps listening with the screen off, restarts after reboot.
Saves to any folder you pick — external drives included — as Year / Year-Month, with file dates set to when each shot was taken. Lives in the menu bar.
Saves to any folder or drive, sorted the same way. Close the window and it keeps receiving from the system tray. Follows dark mode.
No accounts, no folders to configure, no cables.
On the device that will keep your photos — a spare Android phone, a Mac, or a PC. It shows a 6-digit PIN.
Your phone finds the receiver on the same Wi-Fi automatically. Type the PIN once; pairing is remembered.
Today, last week, last month, this year, a date, one photo — or everything. After that, only new photos go.
Screens from the current builds, captured on an iPhone and an Android phone talking to each other over Wi-Fi.
Each receiver keeps a permanent record of what it got — even after the file is cleaned up. Photos saved late from chats or AirDrop are picked up too, and a full check runs weekly.
Your phone fingerprints each file while it streams; the receiver does the same while it writes. If they differ, that file is sent again. Empty or truncated files are never counted as done.
The photo being sent, second-by-second time left, speed, photo and video counts — and a plain reason if anything fails. Pause stops in place; resume picks up the same file.
Your biggest videos, sorted by size. When you need to back something up again, re-send it as a fresh copy — same picture, same date, “_px” added to the name.
iPhone: a Shortcuts automation starts a sync when you plug in or join home Wi-Fi. Android: every few hours while charging on Wi-Fi.
The receiver never deletes on its own. Optional Auto mode (Pro, Android) clears week-old files only when space runs out.
Files keep their original capture time, so they sort where they belong in folders and in Google Photos. If a photo or video arrives with its date stripped — say, saved from a messenger app — the Android receiver writes the capture time into the file’s date fields; the picture itself is untouched. A screen recording can still show a few minutes off on the phone.
Pair several phones with the same receiver. Each one is listed by name and can be unpaired anytime.
On iPhone, one run can send to several receivers — the spare phone and the Mac, say — and the activity list shows where each file went.
If Wi-Fi drops halfway through a 3 GB video, the next run continues from the bytes the receiver already has instead of starting over.
Different reasons, same goal: get originals off the phone and somewhere safe — without paying every month.
Google’s own help page says the original Pixel (2016) gets unlimited storage in Original quality at no charge in Google Photos. That’s why people on r/GooglePixel keep one plugged in at home as a backup station — and ask how to get their partner’s iPhone photos onto it too.
The usual answers: copy files over a cable, or keep a sync app open and watch it.
PixLaundry is the missing link: install the free receiver on the Pixel, and your iPhone (or any Android) delivers originals over Wi-Fi. Google Photos on the Pixel takes it from there.
Read the step-by-step guidePixLaundry is not affiliated with Google and doesn’t provide or guarantee any cloud storage. Storage benefits are Google’s, under Google’s terms, and may change. Google doesn’t say how it treats photos taken on other phones. Sources: Google Photos Help, r/GooglePixel thread (Jan 2026).
Send everything to a Mac or PC with a cheap external drive, confirm the copies, then clear space on your iPhone and in iCloud.
Every phone in the house pairs with one receiver. New clips go automatically while the phones charge overnight (Pro).
Multi-gigabyte clips go straight to your editing machine at Wi-Fi speed — no re-encode, no cloud round-trip.
No iTunes, no cable, no “device unreachable.” Originals land in tidy year/month folders on any drive.
Move your library from iPhone to Android in full quality, or turn last year’s phone into a home photo box. Android to Android works too.
Your photos travel only between devices you own, on your network. Nothing is uploaded to us — there’s no “us” server to upload to.
| What you need | PixLaundry | AirDrop | USB cable import | Cloud photo apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps the original file | Depends on settings | Depends on plan | ||
| iPhone → Android, Mac and Windows | Apple only | Via the cloud | ||
| Sends only what’s new, automatically | Manual | |||
| Shows each file arrived intact | Not shown | |||
| Wireless | ||||
| No monthly fee as your library grows | Free tier is 5–15 GB |
Pro is one payment — no subscription, no account.
Prices in USD; your store shows local pricing. Pro removes app limits — it doesn’t include any cloud storage.
PixLaundry has no servers, so there is nothing for us to collect. Here’s exactly what that means — including the one thing to know.
No. Any Android 10+ phone, another iPhone, a Mac (macOS 13+) or a Windows 10/11 PC can receive. An original Pixel is a popular choice because of its Google Photos storage benefit — see the Pixel guide — but it’s not required.
No. PixLaundry only moves files between your own devices on your Wi-Fi. Any cloud backup — including storage benefits on some Pixel phones — comes from that cloud service under its own terms, which can change. We’re not affiliated with Google or Apple, and we can’t make promises on their behalf about storage or accounts.
No. The original file is sent as-is: HEIC, ProRAW, ProRes, 4K HDR. For edited photos, the version you currently see is sent. Both devices compute a SHA-256 fingerprint and compare; on a mismatch the file is sent again.
No — both devices must be on the same Wi-Fi. If your router blocks device discovery, connect by typing the receiver’s IP address.
Each file is recorded on the receiver the moment it’s saved. Next time, PixLaundry compares and sends only what’s still missing.
Never on its own. Laundry has an optional “delete originals” that only touches files the receiver has a record of, after two confirmations (the app’s and your phone’s). On iPhone they stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days. If you use iCloud Photos, deleting on the iPhone deletes everywhere — so check your backup first.
iOS limits background transfers for every app. With Pro, a Shortcuts automation can start a sync when you plug in or join home Wi-Fi, and on iOS 26 or later it asks the system to keep a started sync going after you leave the app, for as long as iOS allows. For very long first-time transfers, keeping the app open is the most reliable.
Today PixLaundry sends the still photo of a Live Photo. The motion part isn’t sent yet.
Laundry re-sends the files you pick as fresh copies, for when you need to back something up again. The picture and video stay the same, the capture date is kept, and “_px” is added to the name so you can tell the copy apart.
Receiving is free on every platform. Sending is free for up to 50 items a day and files up to 100 MB. Pro is a one-time $9.99 purchase (your store shows local pricing) that removes those limits and adds automation and Laundry.
Give every original a real home — on devices you already own.
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