Zorin Connect

Zorin OS Technologies Ltd.

About this app

Zorin Connect provides functionality to integrate your phone and your computer:
• Sync your phone's notifications with your computer
• Browse photos from your phone
• Get notifications for incoming phone calls and messages on your computer
• Reply to messages from the Zorin OS desktop
• Share files and links between devices
• Use your phone as a remote control for your computer

The app seamlessly connects your computer and your mobile device over your local network, securely with RSA encryption.

Please note you will need to have Zorin OS 15 or 16 installed and have enabled Zorin Connect on your computer for this app to work.

The following permissions can be granted to enable core functionality in the app:
• SMS & MMS - To view and reply to SMS & MMS messages on your computer
• Phone & Call log - To get notifications for incoming calls
• Contacts - To display which contact is calling or sending messages
• Storage - To browse and send your phone's files to your computer
• Accessibility Service - To receive mouse input from other devices

Ratings and reviews

Anyone reading this and you get the storage error message after installing on your desktop, go to the phone app and turn on permissions from there. Needs to work across different networks, not just local one. If I'm at my PC using this service, in better off just using my phone since it's with me already. Needs a better notification panel in Linux. The SMS system is messed up. The title of each conversation is the same, random gibberish. Needs work. But thanks for bringing this.

Despite having some "similarities" with KDE connect , this app provides a really nice user experience due to the fact that it's integrated with ZORIN OS 15 ,just on a button click i am able to share files between my laptop and phone effortlessly (the file sharing works with phone hotspot and the transfer rate is phenomenal around 30-25 mb/s ). I only wish that there is an exit button on the phone , i don't really need an always running app affecting my battery life when i don't really need it at that time

Tried with zorin pro which i recently purchased but seems it is one way broken street. If i had established connection successfully of devices, and did a link or file share from desktop to mobile, mobile never receives it. All notifications from my phone show up as popups after popups but cant disable it nor see any selected notification. The mouse pointer pad & buttons seems to work on their own nothing what user wants. In short,sync & collaborative feature of connect never works from anywhere.

What's new

- Display your computer's battery status
- Send your phone's clipboard with one tap from the home screen
- Option to show notifications on your computer only if the phone's screen is off
- Add loop and shuffle controls to Multimedia Control (for supported media players)
- Allow configuring the action for left clicks in Remote Input
- Run commands from the Android power menu (on Android 11 and newer)
- New About screen
- Bug fixes and performance improvements