About
Built because it didn't exist
Microsoft ships “Link to Windows®”. Apple® links iPhone® to Mac®. An Android phone next to a Mac gets nothing — this project fills that gap, without handing your clipboard to a cloud.
Link to Mac is a personal-use, open-source project by grkndev. It isn't on the Play Store or the App Store, and that's the point: you build or sideload it, you host the relay (or skip it), and nothing about your phone or your Mac touches anyone else's infrastructure.
The design bar is simple — it should feel like a feature the two operating systems forgot to ship. A Material 3 app on the phone, a native menu-bar agent on the Mac, and a link that quietly picks the best path between them.
What it does today
- Two-way clipboard sync (text)
- Remote lock from the phone
- Proximity auto-lock over Bluetooth
- Live battery telemetry, both directions
- Notification mirroring to native Mac banners
- SMS threads on the Mac (read-only)
- LAN-direct with automatic relay fallback
- End-to-end encryption with replay protection
Roadmap
What's next
The Home screen already hints at it — some cards are just waiting for their feature.
File transfer
Send files between phone and Mac — the “Received files” card is already waiting on the Home screen.
Reply to messages
Answer SMS from the Mac's Messages tab instead of just reading them.
Screen casting
Mirror the phone's screen into the dashboard, plus the Calls and Photos tabs beside it.