Eye-Fi was a company based in Mountain View, California, that produced SD memory cards with Wi-Fi capabilities.

Eye-Fi offered multiple models that varied in data transfer speed, storage capacity, and the provided software and other services.

[1][2] Eye-Fi was originally known for its Wi-Fi enabled SD Card product line which began commercial shipments in 2007.

Starting in 2009, Eye-Fi Geo and subsequent products offered geotagging of photos using a Wi-Fi positioning system.

Infrastructure transfer is accomplished when both the Card and the device running the Eyefi Mobi app are within range of the same router based network.

Eyefi Mobi Cards only support direct mode, automatic file transfer, so no desktop set-up is required.

In August 2016, in response to complaints, Eye-Fi announced the "one-time release" of a new, Mac-only software utility "to allow more time for customers seeking an alternative WiFi SD card solution."

[6] The third-party command line utility eyefi-config[7] can be used to retrieve a compatible card's authentication data, which can then be used to manually configure appropriate client software.

Third-party free software exists to enable Eye-Fi cards to be accessed from Linux but the platform is not officially supported.

The company announced in October 2015 that the apps will also directly connect to cameras with built-in Wi-Fi radio modules such as GoPro, and selected models from Canon, Casio, Nikon and Olympus.

Once transcoded, videos can be played back on inside Eye-Fi Mobi apps and within a browser via in-app streaming at 480p resolution.

[citation needed] Beyond storage, Eye-Fi Cloud also provides a range of features designed to simplify organization, access and sharing of private image collections.

[21] In October 2010, Time magazine technology editor Peter Ha placed the original 2 GB Eye-Fi card on his list of "the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present".