Surfly is free service using which you can browse website with your online friends together at the same time. It does not matter where your friends are, you can browse any website with them using Surfly. Using Surfly feels like friends sitting together on one single computer, with each holding having different cursors for same website.
What happens in Surfly is that, you copy the website address where you want to browse with your friends. Then you generate a new address from your Surfly account and then use the new link to browse website together with your friends. Your friends require the link only, they need not require to register for a Surfly account. Which is a great feature as you can browse with anyone just using one single link.
I have tested Surfly and it worked great for me. I was able to browse I love free software website with my friends together at the same time. Also, while browsing I liked that the different cursors have different colors.
Note that the other user will only be able to see your cursor movements and the website. No other part of screen is shared with your friends. It’s a great security feature as it does not show anything other than the website.
How To Use Surfly:
Surfly is very simple to use. In order to use Surfly, first you have to register in Surfly website for an account (link provided at the end of the article). You will have the user interface as shown below.
After logging in to your account, you have to simply copy the website link that you want to browse with your friends, and paste it into the space as shown in the above screenshot.
Surfly will then provide you a link which you can share with your friends with whom you want to browse the website.
The browsing experience is good as you will be able to see the cursor of your friends on your browser. By this way you can differentiate your cursor with other cursors on screen.
Featues of Surfly:
- Very simply to use.
- Neat interface.
- Many friends can browse together at the same time.
- Option to invite any friend just with one link for everyone.
- Option to end the session.
- Option to browse to a different site while browsing the website.
- No software is required.
Conclusion:
Surfly is very simple to use and it’s a great website when you want to browse website with your friends. What I really liked is the ease of use and simple interface. However, sometimes the cursor lags, but overall Surfly worked well for me. If you want to browse website with your friends then I would recommend you to try it out.
