TwinDesk
Your Mac, Windows PC, Linux box and Android phone, working together like they were made for it. One mouse and keyboard. Files that just fly across. Your phone's calls and texts, right on your computer.
TwinDesk fixes all of that.
Install it on each device, pair once, and they work as one desk. Here's how a day with it looks.
A Mac and a Windows PC side by side. Or two PCs, two Macs, Linux and anything. Scroll along.
No second mouse, no switch box. The pointer slides from the Mac onto the PC like they're one big screen. Trackpad gestures carry over, and a double-tap of the hotkey brings everything home.
Wherever the pointer is, that's where your keys go. Shortcuts too, with Ctrl and ⌘ swapped if you like.
Drag files across the screen edge and they land where you let go, with live progress on both sides. Or copy with ⌃⌥C and paste with ⌃⌥V. Big folder? Share it as a network drive.
Instantly, or when you switch over. Password manager entries are skipped, and a Recent list keeps the last few things you copied.
No full remote desktop. Just the app you need, next to yours, with its own Dock icon or Start-menu pin.
Extend with a real virtual display, or mirror. Drag a window across and keep going. Low-latency video with Fastest and Smooth modes, and optional frame generation.
ssh twindesk opens a shell on the other side, no password.Most phone links stop at notifications. In TwinDesk your Android phone or tablet is a full peer: its calls, texts, photos, files, screen and apps, on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer.
The phone shows up under Nearby on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Plug in a USB cable instead and it's even simpler: click Allow, no code. From then on they connect by themselves.
See who's calling, then Answer, Decline, Mute and End. With Bluetooth, your computer becomes the phone's headset, so you talk and listen right there. A dial pad, your contacts and the call history are on the Calls page.
Every conversation, pictures included, new ones as they arrive, and a count in the sidebar. Start a new one by number.
Browse photos, videos and screenshots, open any of them big, and save one or a dozen to the computer. No cable, no cloud.
Pick Send to computer in Android's share menu, or drag files onto the phone from the computer. Phone Files browses the phone's whole storage, and shared folders work both ways: the phone in Finder or Explorer, a computer folder in the phone's Files app.
Open single Android apps in windows of their own, next to your desktop apps, and control them with your mouse and keyboard. Prop up a tablet and it becomes a second monitor: Extend or Mirror, with touch as the mouse.
On a train, in a café whose Wi-Fi blocks devices, or with no network at all. TwinDesk picks the best link by itself, and moves you when things change.
Home or office. Everything works, at full speed.
3 ms · Wi-FiNo shared network? Nearby devices connect over Bluetooth LE by themselves.
38 ms · BluetoothSending a big file or a screen? A fast direct link comes up just for that, then goes.
Temporary Wi-Fi DirectOne click: the phone shares its hotspot and the computer joins, password remembered.
HotspotPlug the phone in for the lowest latency. Unplug, and it's back on wireless.
<10 ms · USB| Same Wi-Fi | USB cable | Bluetooth | + Wi-Fi Direct | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouse, keyboard, clipboard, notifications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calls and texts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screens, apps, files, photos | ✓ | ✓ | moves to Wi-Fi Direct | ✓ |
Get TwinDesk for each computer and your phone. It's free.
They find each other on Wi-Fi, over Bluetooth, or on a USB cable.
Compare a code (on a cable, just click Allow). After that they connect by themselves.
For the phone's screen and apps in windows, TwinDesk walks you through Android's wireless debugging once. Files, clipboard, notifications, calls, texts, photos and mouse and keyboard work without it.
TwinDesk only talks to devices you've paired with: directly, over your own network, Bluetooth, a direct Wi-Fi link or a cable. No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud relay. Your calls, texts and photos go straight from the phone to your computer and nowhere else. The only internet request is an update check against GitHub, and you can turn it off.
Free and open source. Install it on every device you want on your desk.
All releases · Star it on GitHub ★ · latest: v2.1.0
EADDRINUSE (#5); pairing works again.Each computer runs an Electron app for the window, pairing, the link and the state machines. Next to it runs a small native helper (Swift on macOS, C# on Windows, C on Linux) for what the OS keeps to itself: capturing and injecting input, virtual displays, gestures, window capture and native drag and drop. The Android app is Kotlin and Jetpack Compose; the computers drive the phone's screen through adb and scrcpy's server.
The link between two devices is one TLS session wherever it runs: the local network, a phone's USB cable, or Bluetooth LE (a GATT pipe of TwinDesk's own). When a Bluetooth session needs bandwidth, TwinDesk brings up a Wi-Fi Direct group or joins the phone's hotspot, moves the session onto it, and takes it down again. Ports: TCP 47800 (control) and UDP 47801 (discovery), on your local network only.
You need Node.js 18+ on every platform. Full steps, Android included, are in the README.
xcode-select --install
cd mac
npm install
npm run build:helper
npm startcd windows
npm install
npm run build:helper
npm startsudo apt install build-essential libx11-dev \
libxi-dev libxtst-dev libxrandr-dev libxfixes-dev
cd linux
npm install
npm run build:helper
npm start💻 The demo only works on a desktop browser.