Bridge & your devices · About Bridge
What is Storage Studio Bridge?
Short answer: Storage Studio Bridge is a free companion app that links another device to your Mac over a direct, end-to-end encrypted connection, so that device's folders appear on your Mac and your clipboard can be shared both ways — with no server or cloud in between.
Storage Studio Bridge is a free companion app that links another device to your Mac over a direct, end-to-end encrypted connection. Once linked, the device's shared folders appear on your Mac alongside your cloud accounts, and — if you switch it on — what you copy on one device turns up in the other's Junk Yard.
On the Mac side, Bridge lives in the Devices tab of the Connect Accounts window. On the other device you install the Bridge app (it shows as SS Bridge), which displays a connecting code you type into your Mac.
There's no server and no cloud in the middle: your files travel straight between your two devices. Bridge works on the same Wi-Fi or across the internet.