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

Must have for anyone using Linux. I've found a use for almost every function available, which is a rarity for many of these apps. The main issue for me is that a reliable connection is hard to establish when I'm not home, even when my laptop is on the phone's hotspot. Hopefully the Bluetooth support in the change notes can fix this.

I don't normally write reviews but there's a crucial design flaw in this app that needs to be solved. When using remote input, the 2 finger scrolling method makes this mostly useless. Please add a scroll bar to the right side and bottom for vertical and horizontal scrolling. To demonstrate the problem, connect to a computer, go into remote input, hold your phone in one hand using your thumb to control the mouse cursor, now scroll. Ah see, you can't. Please fix this, everything else is great!

Not a fan of the new color scheme. I miss the pure black. That being said, this is a necessity for pairing with any linux machine. Remote file browsing is amazing (yes on linux you can copy entire folders both ways, rename files, open, edit, or delete by using the native PC file explorer to browse the phone). This app quite literally gives the most incredible conveniences without sacrificing privacy because it's all done on the local network. If it disconnects, just force close and open again 👍

What's new

1.31
* Allow sharing URLs to disconnected devices, to be opened when they become available later
* Show a notification to continue playing media on this device after stopping it on another device
* Display a shortened version of the pairing verification key
* Tweaks to the app theme

1.30
* Added Bluetooth support (beta)
* Improved device controls
* Added scroll sensitivity option to remote input
* Accessibility improvements