Guide · July 21, 2026 · 6 min read
You filmed something great on your phone and now you need it on your computer to edit. The usual options are all a little annoying: a USB cable you can't find, AirDrop that only works between Apple devices, emailing yourself a compressed clip, or installing yet another transfer app just for this one task. EZ Web Streams has a faster way built right into the editor — scan a code, pick your files, and they land straight in your project. Here's how it works.
Phone to computer, over Wi-Fi, no app
In the editor, open Connections › 📱 Cell Phone (or tap the Phone Transfer button when you start a blank project). A window opens with a QR code. Point your phone's camera at it — or type the short link shown underneath into your phone's browser — and a page opens. That's it. No app store, no install, no account to create on the phone.
Your phone and computer then connect directly to each other over your Wi-Fi network — the same peer-to-peer technology that powers our live recording guests. As soon as the page says Connection Established, tap ＋ Choose files to send, pick any photos or videos, and hit Send. Files stream in real time, with transfer speed and time remaining shown right on your phone.
Nothing touches our servers
This is the part worth being precise about: your video does not get uploaded anywhere. Your phone and your computer negotiate a direct connection and the file streams from one to the other — the same way a video call's audio and video travel directly between callers. Our server's only role is a brief introduction (so the two devices can find each other), the same handshake used to connect live recording guests. Once that handshake is done, your footage never passes through us, and it never sits on a server waiting to be downloaded.
Choose a folder — so you always know where files land
Before your phone can send anything, the computer side asks you to pick a destination folder. This is deliberate: files never disappear into a generic downloads folder with no confirmation they arrived. Once you've chosen a folder, your phone even shows its name, so you know exactly where your clips are going before you hit Send. When the batch finishes, you can drag the new files straight onto your timeline without leaving the editor.
Wi-Fi drops mid-transfer? It resumes — it doesn't restart
This is the detail that matters most for a big phone video. Wi-Fi isn't perfect — you walk into another room, your router blips, your phone's connection manager decides to be difficult for a second. With most transfer tools, that means starting the whole file over from byte zero. If you're sending a 2 GB screen recording or a long 4K clip, that's minutes of your time wasted on a connection hiccup that lasted three seconds.
EZ Web Streams tracks exactly how much of each file has actually arrived. If the connection drops, your phone automatically reconnects and asks the computer, in effect, "how much of this do you already have?" — then sends only what's missing. A 2 GB video that was 90% done when the Wi-Fi blipped finishes from that 90%, not from scratch. You can even close the transfer window entirely and come back to it later: reopen Cell Phone, pick the same folder, and it picks up right where it left off. Nothing is silently corrupted either — a file is only ever marked "received" after the computer confirms every byte actually made it to disk.
Free up space on your phone afterward
Once a batch finishes sending, your phone can offer to delete the originals for you — handy when you've just cleared out a camera roll full of clips onto your computer. This is only ever offered when your phone's browser genuinely supports it (a plain photo picker can't delete files — that's a deliberate privacy restriction on every phone browser), so you'll never see a delete button that doesn't actually do anything.
Get your phone footage into the editor in seconds
Scan a code, send your clips over Wi-Fi — no cable, no app, nothing uploaded.
Try it free →How it compares
AirDrop is fast, but it's Apple-only — no help if you're on Android or your computer is Windows. Cables work everywhere but you need the right one, and most people don't keep one at their desk. Google Photos or emailing a clip to yourself both mean uploading to a cloud service first, waiting, then downloading again — and video quality often gets recompressed along the way. Dedicated transfer apps like Snapdrop-style tools work peer-to-peer too, but they're a separate destination: you still have to move the file from Downloads into whatever you're editing with.
EZ Web Streams skips the extra hop. The transfer happens straight into the same browser tab you're already editing in, at full quality, with no upload step — and unlike a plain file-sharing tool, it's built to survive a shaky connection without losing your progress on a large file.
FAQ
Do I need to install an app on my phone?
No. Scanning the QR code just opens a normal web page in your phone's browser — there's nothing to download or install, on iPhone or Android.
Does my video get uploaded to a server?
No. Your phone and computer connect directly to each other (peer-to-peer) and the file streams straight between them. It never passes through or sits on our servers.
What happens if my Wi-Fi drops mid-transfer?
It reconnects automatically and resumes exactly where it left off — it does not re-send bytes that already arrived. A large video that was 90% done when the connection blipped will finish from that 90%, not from zero.
Why do I have to choose a folder before sending?
So your files always land somewhere real on your computer instead of disappearing into a generic downloads folder with no confirmation. Pick the folder once at the start and every file in that batch is written straight into it.
Can I delete the videos from my phone afterward?
When your phone's browser supports it, you'll get an option to delete the originals right after a successful transfer, so you're not stuck manually clearing your camera roll. It's only offered when it can actually work — never a button that does nothing.