KDE Connect
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Empowers seamless interaction between devices, offering notifications, SMS replies, music control, file sharing, volume control, secure connections, and cross-platform compatibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- KDE Plasma
- F-Droid
- Sailfish OS
- Plasma Mobile
- Chocolatey
- OpenAPK
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Recent News
- Fla published news article about Linux Lite
Linux Lite 7.8 releases 12 rewritten apps and expands software selectionLinux Lite 7.8 introduces 12 key applications fully rewritten with Python and GTK4 as the distribut...
- POX published news article about KDE Connect
KDE Connect 2.0: A Major Upgrade for Seamless Device ConnectivityAfter a decade of development, KDE Connect, the app that connects phones, laptops, and desktop comp...
Recent activities
80`s look. 0 functionality.
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Comments and Reviews
Easy and seamless way to integrate your Android phone with Linux desktop. Completely free (as in money AND as in freedom), lets you see your notifications on PC, receive and send SMS, control media playback, share files, emulate mouse and keyboard input with phone touchscreen and more!
The desktop application is ok. It lacks UX, and the iPhone application as of Dec 2023 is unusable, because it requires to be on foreground and it has just a bunch of basic features implemented. It's very rough around the edges.
You said its ok, why did you give it 1 star?
@PearOfJudes for everything I said after that...
80`s look. 0 functionality.
The best way to connect linux and android. Makes it seem like a cohesive ecosystem while not locking down your choice in terms of OS or devices.
A really good tool that I use for … just remote mouse control, playing/pausing multimedia, or mobile notifications and the ability to reply to them. For everything else – whether it’s contacts, the calendar, text messages, calls or files on the mobile – I use MyPhoneExplorer, which, although it’s proprietary software, is (as far as I can tell) developed solely by a German developer in his spare time. I believe I’ve understood that KDE Connect was actually designed to turn the mobile into a ‘remote control’ for the PC. Even file transfers are a right faff. I don’t understand how to do it via Wi-Fi, so I can only do it via Bluetooth.
Has a basic set of functions, great for file sharing, you can pair your mobile devices with one another, perfect if you don't need anything else. Is intended for use with your own devices. calling it a remote control tool is a bit of an overstatement as it has no screen mirroring.
KDE Connect does basically anything you could want between any two devices you have. For example, I use the "Share Input Devices" plugin to share my mouse and keyboard across two different desktops over the network; no separate app required! Like many KDE apps, the UI isn't that great, but it does what I need.