How It Works
Peer-to-peer text sharing, explained.
amanmaps connects your phone and computer directly through your browser — no app to install, no account to create, and no data that touches a server beyond a brief connection handshake. Here is exactly how it works, step by step.
Start a session
Your computer generates a unique session ID and encryption key. The key is placed in the URL after the # symbol — browsers never send the fragment part to any server.
Scan the QR code
Open your phone's camera and point it at the QR code on your computer screen. The QR encodes the session URL including the secret key — no typing, no copying.
Peer-to-peer connection
Your phone opens the URL and the two browsers connect through our signaling server, which simply helps them find each other by exchanging connection metadata (SDP handshake, ICE candidates).
The signaling server steps aside
Once the browsers have negotiated a direct path, the signaling server is out of the loop. All subsequent data travels directly between your devices over a WebRTC data channel.
Share peer-to-peer
Type or paste text on your phone — it arrives on your computer instantly through the direct encrypted channel. Nothing is stored, logged, or visible to any server at any point.
Session ends on close
Refreshing or closing either browser tab destroys the session. The server immediately removes all handshake data from memory. Nothing persists. No trace is left behind.
Why we built it this way
Most sharing tools upload your content to a server and then download it on the other device. That means the provider can see, log, or inspect what you share. amanmaps was designed around a different idea: the content should never leave your devices at all. By using WebRTC for direct browser-to-browser transfer, your text goes straight from your phone to your computer with no intermediary that can read it. The only data our servers ever see is technical handshake metadata — and even that is ephemeral, discarded the moment the session ends.