KDE Connect

KDE Community

About this app

KDE Connect provides a set of features to integrate your workflow across devices:

- Transfer files between your devices.
- Access files on your phone from your computer, without wires.
- Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices.
- Get notifications for incoming calls and messages on your computer.
- Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad.
- Notifications sync: Access your phone notifications from your computer and reply to messages.
- Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players.
- WiFi connection: no USB wire or bluetooth needed.
- End-to-end TLS encryption: your information is safe.

Please note you will need to install KDE Connect on your computer for this app to work, and keep the desktop version up-to-date with the Android version for the latest features to work.

Sensitive permissions information:
* Accessibility permission: Required to receive input from another device to control your Android phone, if you use the Remote Input feature.
* Background location permission: Required to know to which WiFi network you are connected to, if you use the Trusted Networks feature.

KDE Connect never sends any information to KDE nor to any third party. KDE Connect sends data from one device to the other directly using the local network, never through the internet, and using end to end encryption.

This app is part of an open source project and it exists thanks to all the people who contributed to it. Visit the website to grab the source code.

Ratings and reviews

What it does is useful, but there is huge room for improvement. For instance, I can't pair from my phone. Only from my PC. I can't browse my phone from my PC. I can't send SMSs from my PC. There are too many applications in my Linux Mint menu that don't seem to do anything. Notifications don't work. I get duplicate icons on my System Tray that relate to other PC accounts. I'll stick with it for a while in the hope of some updates.

Works perfectly in conjunction with Manjaro KDE, however I wish there were a way to stop my phone and PC communicating and close the app without having to unpair and pair again next time I want to use it, or force-killing the app. I mostly use this to transfer files across devices, maybe once or twice a month, even if I can turn the notifications off, I still don't want an app that I barely use running in the background all the time.

Works like a charm on KDE and i3wm. I saw some other reviews saying they had issues with not being able to browse phone files and send SMS from the connected PC, but these features worked out of the box for me. It's worth pointing out, though, that some features on the PC end could only be accessed by the kdeconnect-cli command line utility.

What’s new

1.33.5
* Bug fixes and translation improvements.

1.33.4
* Extend offline URL sharing behavior to direct share targets.
* Improve paring screen.

1.33.3
* Fix connection issues. Pairing again might be needed in some cases.
* Add a setting to export the application logs.

1.33.0
* Add support for PeerTube links.
* Allow filtering notifications from work profile.
* Fix bug where devices would unpair without user interaction.
* Verification key now changes every second (if both devices support it).