If you're a fan of sleek, powerful computers and highly-customizable smartphones, then you probably own a Mac and an Android device. But the downside to this glorious hardware pairing is that it can be hard to get the software on the two devices to play nice together. Previously, the best way to transfer files from an Android phone to a MacBook or an iMac was to use Google's app for OS X. But this app has a bare-bones interface, and it's extremely lacking in features. Well, the development team at has the perfect Android File Transfer alternative.

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Their Mac app sports a beautiful, native interface, while giving you the ability to drag and drop files from your phone to your computer, as well as perform batch import and export operations, so I'll show you how to set it up below. Once you've done that, go ahead and launch HandShaker, and you'll be asked if you'd like to open this app automatically in the future. This will make HandShaker open immediately after you plug any Android device into your Mac, so go ahead and click 'Launch Automatically' here. We recommend uninstalling the old Android File Transfer app at this time to avoid any conflicts. Next, you'll see a screen prompting you to enable USB debugging on your Android device.

Leave HandShaker on this screen, then grab your Android phone or tablet to do a bit of setup. With everything set up now, give HandShaker a moment to finalize initial setup, and make sure to leave your phone connected to the computer.

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Step 3: Browse Your Phone's Storage on Your Mac At this point, you should be greeted by HandShaker's main menu. It's an intuitive interface, complete with thumbnails for all of the pictures that are stored on your phone. If you'd rather see different types of media, you can use the navigation menu on the left to browse by Music or Video as well, and the interface in these menus looks just as nice. Overall, it's a great alternative to Android File Transfer, to the point where HandShaker is better in almost every way.

This app lasted all of 5 minutes on my computer/phone, and I was gladly reinstalling AFT. It may be useful for moving files from an Android device to the Mac, but going the other way around? AFT is more powerful. I want you to think about that for a second: a v1.0 app that hasn't been updated since 2012 is still superior to an app that was in v2.0.2 in late December 2016. Take your time.

Let that sink in. In the 'Music' section of the app, you can't delete music folders, nor can you drag them from the Finder to the app. If you do, you get an error message: 'Cannot found (sic) audio files in transfer path.' Install drive for mac.

You have to do that instead in the 'Files' section. And the FAIL doesn't stop there: anything you move over in the 'Files' section? It's going directly to your device. You can't even see your memory card there.

If you want your files on your card and not your device's internal storage? You're going to have to find your device's file manager and do it there. Good ghod, even AFT can do that much. Smartisan had one job. One job: give us an interface for our Android devices that's much more robust and Finder-like. Enough so that we might be able to forgive Android for not letting us just mount the bloody device and memory card directly in the Finder, like we were once able to do. And Smartisan still couldn't manage that much, not even in v2.0.2.