DrawBridge

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About this app

DrawBridge brings your Mac's screen onto your tablet and lets you work it directly with a pen and your fingers. Your tablet becomes a second canvas for your Mac.

■ Key features

• Mirror your Mac — See your Mac's screen live on your tablet and use it as a mirror or an extended display.

• S Pen input to your Mac — Send the tablet's S Pen, touch, and keyboard input back to your Mac, complete with pressure and tilt. Draw and write right on the tablet.

• Glass keycap deck — A floating, tinted-glass keycap overlay sits on top of your screen, putting a Stream Deck-style shortcut deck at your fingertips.

• Per-app binding profiles — Keycaps and shortcut layouts switch automatically based on which Mac app you're in, so the right controls show up for the task at hand.

• Wi-Fi or USB — Go light over Wi-Fi or steady over USB. Connect whichever way suits you.

■ Great for

• Driving your Mac's painting and drawing apps directly with the tablet and pen
• Moving panels, tools, and timelines onto the tablet to free up your main screen
• Gathering your favorite shortcuts into the glass keycap deck for one-tap access

■ How it works

The DrawBridge tablet app is a viewer/client. It decodes and displays your Mac's video and captures the tablet's own pen and touch to send to the Mac. It does not capture your Android screen and does not inject input into Android (no Accessibility Service, no screen recording, no foreground service).

■ Requirements

• Android 10 or newer, optimized for tablets (built and verified on Galaxy Tab S8)
• A Mac on the same local network, or connected over USB
• This is a personal release from an individual developer.

■ Data handling (the honest note)

• Google Sign-In: used to pair and authenticate with your own Mac via your Google account identifier (email / account id).
• Diagnostics: crash and diagnostic data (stack traces, device model, OS version, app state at crash) is collected to improve stability.
• No ads. No advertising ID (AD_ID removed). No usage analytics or tracking.
• Mirroring data: the Mac's screen pixels and your pen, touch, and keyboard input are exchanged over your local network (Wi-Fi or USB) with your own Mac only. They do not pass through any developer or third-party server and are not stored off-device. The Wi-Fi connection is end-to-end encrypted via secure pairing (Google sign-in); USB is a direct cable connection.
• Pairing and device keys are stored locally on your device and removed when you uninstall or unpair.

Permissions used: INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, and CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE (for mDNS discovery) only. No location, contacts, photos/media, SMS/call, microphone, camera, or storage access.

Contact: [e-mail]

What’s new

DrawBridge 0.10.1 — first public release.

• Mirror your Mac in real time (mirror or extended display)
• Send S Pen, touch, and keyboard input back (pressure and tilt)
• Pair with a six-digit match — no account, no sign-in
• Graphite keycap deck and per-app shortcut profiles
• Wi-Fi or USB

This version fixes first-time USB pairing and reconnects. Start pairing and unpair from the computer list.

Feedback: [e-mail]