Change phones without losing anything: PinMy goes with you

Change phones without losing anything: PinMy goes with you

Picture the scene. You’ve spent six months documenting jobs: before-and-after photos, notes on every install, all on the phone. And one day the phone falls in water, gets stolen, or it’s simply time to replace it. What happens to all that work?

If it lives in the phone’s camera roll or in the notes app, the answer is scary: it can vanish in an instant. Months of documentation, lost to one slip or one device swap.

This page is about why that should never happen to you, and how to work without that risk.

The real fear: losing months of work

It’s one of the most common — and least talked about — scares in the trade:

• The phone gets lost, breaks, or is stolen. And with it, every site photo that wasn’t stored anywhere else.
• You change phones and, when transferring data, the photos arrive jumbled and the notes never quite migrate.
• You switch from Android to iPhone, or the other way round. This is worse: Apple Notes don’t move to Android, and Google Keep or Samsung Notes don’t move to iPhone. Whatever you had in there pretty much stays behind.

All that work is yours and it’s worth money. Making it depend on nothing ever happening to a phone is a risk you don’t need to take.

The solution: the work shouldn’t live on the phone

The idea is simple: your photos, your notes, and your installs shouldn’t be stored on the phone, but in the cloud, tied to your account. The phone is just the window you view them through.

With PinMy, everything you document is saved to the cloud the moment you create it. The phone becomes interchangeable: if it’s lost or replaced, you sign in on another one and it’s all there, exactly as you left it. Nothing to migrate, nothing to lose.

The everyday scenarios

This isn’t just for the bad day. It makes normal work easier:

• Photo on the phone, plan on the tablet. You take the photos with your phone on the install and, when you want to review properly, you open the same project on the tablet with the big screen. Same thing, synced.
• The client views it on their computer. You send a link and they open the documentation in their PC’s browser, without installing anything, via guest mode.
• You and your technician, in sync. The technician takes photos from their phone and you see them from yours instantly — because they’re in the cloud, not trapped in their phone’s gallery.
• Switch brands without drama. Android today, iPhone tomorrow: sign in with your account and pick up where you left off. Your documentation doesn’t care about brands.

It works the same everywhere

PinMy is genuinely cross-platform: iPhone, Android, web, and Chrome extension, all with the same account and the same synced data. It’s not “an iPhone app with a poor Android version”. It’s the same information, accessible from wherever suits you at any given moment.

That means you pick the device for the task — the phone on site, the tablet for reviewing, the computer for showing the client — without copying anything from one place to another.

Your data, in the EU and under your control

Being in the cloud doesn’t mean it belongs to just anyone. PinMy is hosted in the European Union and is GDPR-compliant. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and it’s never sold or used for advertising. It’s your work — safe and under your control.

What you can do today

Only features that are live on the phone right now:

• Voice, photo, video, and text pins on PDF plans, photos, and maps, stored in the cloud.
• Cross-platform: iPhone, Android, web, and Chrome extension, synced.
• Guest mode so the client can access from any browser without an account.
• Voice notes transcribed in 20+ languages.
• Category icons, Kanban flow, and @mentions for the team.
• Hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant, encrypted in transit and at rest.

Start without the risk

Document your next install in PinMy instead of in the phone’s camera roll. Whatever happens to your phone, that work will be safe and will follow you to any device.

It’s free to start, no card. Also see why phone notes aren’t enough and how to keep as-built documentation for your installations.

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