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

app is successful at pinging my phone or computer, wow. app can send a file from phone to computer. wow. not the other way around. can control media. big whoop. can't browse files on other device. can't do anything of substance or useful in any way. the hunt for software that works and doesn't continuously try to grab data to sell... continues, seemingly in perpetuity. but not before I lost hours of my life fighting this bs, so that's cool.

This app is a big part of why I switched my laptop to Plasma. If you can get it to work, it will be a great tool. Unfortunately, there's a well-documented, long-running bug that makes it useless for me. Whenever I connect, I can push files from the phone to my laptop, but I can't access the phone from my laptop. And the entire time I'm connected I get a string of error messages scrolling down the laptop screen. Useless for bulk file management.

When my devices can see each other through the murky haze that is my unconventionally configured LAN, this app is suddenly a rock star. Sending files, remotely controlling media apps, using your phone as a HID, there isn't much to gripe about. An app I would be happy paying for (honestly) and yet it is glorious FOSS. Also, it gives me something to brag about to my Windows friends. Worth it's weight in gold, that. 10/5 stars. Linux users, don't pass this up!

What’s new

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.

1.33.1
* Fix compatibility with GSConnect.

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).