KDE Connect

KDE Community

About this app

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

- Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices.
- Share files and URLs to your computer from any app.
- Get notifications for incoming calls and SMS messages on your PC.
- Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad.
- Notifications sync: Read your Android notifications from the desktop.
- 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.

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

I mostly use the shared clipboard. Saves a lot of touchscreen typing. The touch pad function is also extremely interesting (although not an improvement over a real mouse, of course ;) ). Notification sync is great (now I can ramp up my "annoyance level" for telemarketers even before I pick up my phone). Update 2022: really like the file transfer! No more messing with Bluetooth or some FTP app.

There's an age old bug with notification spam that has never even been acknowledged. Plus, I get a new one now where a notification will be duplicated 6 times. It also opens bittorrent when clicking the notif for some reason... So I'm going back to pushbullet for notifications. Media control mostly works, but can be real funky with volume. Settings aren't too clear either. Should be 'phone' and 'pc' instead of device/remote device.

Transfer is slow, under a Mbps, around 700kbps. Number of files limited - can't do more than 9 files at a time. Can't send folders either. It's a hassle to use it. So much so that I'll have to use my card reader and do a complex job all the time I'm handling transfers between - which is undesired... I will give 3 stars now, because I love you guys and I appreciate the work. Hope to come back later and give more. Until then, gtg remove my SD card 😭 bye! 😢

What's new

We recently disabled mDNS device discovery by default. Please report any new problems finding devices.

1.34.2
* Made the notification for received files not silent by default.

1.34.1
* Fixed crash

1.34.0
* Disabled mDNS device discovery by default.
* Fix cellular network connectivity not being reported.
* Fix unwantedly stopping multimedia players after pausing them.
* Fix arrow keys input when using remote input.
* Display "continue watching" notifications less often.