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

Absolute godsend of an application. However, Google's increasingly heinous storage restrictions make anything involving files a nightmare... Just recently, they even blocked the Download folder from being used, so send/receive files does not work with default settings. Incredibly disappointed in Google's decisions to cripple this application...

Fixed indeed in 1.32.5. Full marks reestablished. Update: With older versions email notifications on my phone would appear on my Linux desktop as well. With the latest version that is no longer the case. The only thing that has changed in my setup (Android and desktop) is the KDE Connect app version. Losing two stars as a result.

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.

What's new

1.32.5
* Fixed crash in Android 14+

1.32.4
* Fix trusted devices list

1.32.2
* Handle expired certificates
* Support doubletap drag in remote mouse

1.32.1
* Fixed a crash when opening the presentation remote

1.32
* Rewrite the remote file browsing
* Add Direct Share targets
* Send album art from phone to PC