Link extends your Mac onto any Android device, wirelessly, and puts your Mac in your hand when you're out. It brings your phone along too: notifications, messages, calls, clipboard, files, sharing and camera, right on the Mac. Sign in with Google once and every feature works wherever you are, on the same Wi‑Fi or on mobile data.
A display for your Mac, your Mac in your hand, a window into your phone, and the everyday things that should just cross over, wherever you are.
The same virtual display macOS gives Sidecar, so it sits in System Settings like any monitor. The Mac's hardware encoder streams it over the Link. Sized to the device, Retina‑style if you like, rotates with it and stays at full brightness. Turn on Extend automatically and your usual device picks up where it left off, and the Mac can stay awake while you extend.
Show an app in a meeting, or reach it without picking the phone up. Click, drag and type into it from the Mac. Android asks first, every time.
Link isn't tied to your Wi‑Fi. On the same network your devices talk straight to each other. On another network, or on mobile data, they find a direct path over the internet, and where a network blocks one (most mobile networks do), the Link goes through a relay instead. Extend, Mirror, Remote screen, notifications, messages, calls, clipboard, files, Share and the camera all work the same, end‑to‑end encrypted the whole way.
The other way round: one of the Mac's displays on the device in your hand, with its sound if you want it, and your touches driving it. Use the screen as a trackpad or a mouse, and type with a bar of Mac keys above the keyboard: esc, tab, ⌘, ⌥, ⌃, ⇧ and the arrows, held down for shortcuts. A hardware keyboard works too. Your Mac asks for its own PIN before it shows anything, and the Mac always shows who is in control. At home it's a straight connection, and away from home the Mac is there too, end to end encrypted either way.
Your touches become a mouse on the Mac. Touch lock makes the screen look‑only, for a video or a doc you don't want to nudge.
Your phone's notifications land in Notification Center, grouped by app, with their buttons and replies. Dismiss once and it clears on both sides. One‑time codes stay on the phone.
Copy text or an image on one, paste it on the other, both ways, without doing anything else. Copies your password manager marks sensitive stay home.
WhatsApp, Messages, Signal, Telegram, Messenger and Snapchat, built up from your notifications with avatars, unread counts and search. Reply in place, or mark them all as read. Open it anywhere with ⌥⌘M.
A call card with the caller's name and photo. Answer, decline or silence, then mute or hang up from the same card. Missed calls land in Messages.
Send text, links, photos and files from Android's share sheet or the Mac's Share menu, or drop them on a device. Phone to Mac, Mac to Mac, phone to device: every device on your account is a target, even a phone asleep in your bag or one across town.
Push your Mac's pointer past the edge of its screen and it carries on onto the device beside it, taps included. Type into the device's text fields from the Mac's keyboard. Drag the device to where it really sits, the way macOS arranges displays.
Your device sits under Locations: photos, downloads, documents, SD card. Open and save straight into it, or drag files in and out of Browse Files. No root, no Android File Transfer.
Use the device's front or back camera on the Mac. Pick Android Link Camera in FaceTime, Zoom, Meet or any other app.
A device becomes a display, a phone becomes a companion. A foldable switches between the two as you open and close it.
Its own encrypted connection over WebRTC, on Wi‑Fi or mobile data. Sign in with the same Google account and your devices are linked: no cable, no developer settings, no codes to type. Everything is end‑to‑end encrypted with keys that never leave your devices. When the Link has to go through a relay it is encrypted twice, so the relay only ever passes on scrambled data.
Connect, Extend or Mirror in one click. Opens at login, out of the Dock until a window opens.
On the same Wi‑Fi your devices find each other again by themselves after a reboot, a sleep or a dropped network. The Mac wakes its devices with a silent push, and a device wakes its Mac the same way. Away from home, one Connect button links them from wherever you are. Link a device with several Macs and it keeps up with them all. Disconnect on purpose and it stays that way.
A live number in the menu bar, or on the device's notification. Click it for everything else.
See which devices are linked and connected, choose what each one shares, and rename or remove them. Your Google account sits at the bottom of the sidebar, and Permissions shows what is still to allow on each side.
H.264 or HEVC from the Mac's hardware encoder, every frame shown the moment it arrives, Wi‑Fi kept out of power saving while you work.
Sidecar only works with an iPad. Second‑screen apps stop at the screen, and phone apps can't show your Mac on an Android device. Link does both, for any Android device.
Only| Feature | Link | Apple SidecariPad only | Second-screen appse.g. Duet Display | Phone-to-Mac appse.g. AndroMeld, AirSync | Phone Link, Samsung FlowWindows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extend a Mac onto an Android device | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Phone notifications and replies on the Mac | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Answer phone calls from the Mac | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Android files in Finder | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Use your Mac from an Android device | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Runs on a Mac | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| All of the above, in one app | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
Based on what each product offers on a Mac as of October 2026. A ✓ for phone-to-Mac apps means at least one of them offers it. All trademarks belong to their owners.
No cable, no developer settings, no codes to type. Your Google account introduces your devices.
Extend your Mac onto it, or use your Mac from it with Remote screen, and share notifications, the clipboard, files and the camera.
Notifications, Messages, calls, clipboard, files, Share and camera on the Mac, Mirror when you need its screen, and your Mac in your pocket.
The Mac app goes in your menu bar. Get the Android app from this page on the device, or scan the QR code the Mac app shows.
Sign in with the same Google account on the Mac and the device. That links them.
Link connects by itself on the same Wi‑Fi, and with one Connect from anywhere else. Choose Extend or Mirror from the menu bar whenever you like.
Free, for your Mac and every Android you own. Install it on this device, then get the Mac app on your Mac.
Android asks once to allow installing apps from your browser. No cable or developer settings needed.
Tap Download, then open the file. Android asks once to allow installing apps from your browser.
Download the APK getlinked.now/download/android-link.apkOpen the DMG and drag Android Link to Applications. It lives in your menu bar and runs on macOS 13 Ventura or later.
Open getlinked.now on your Mac to download it there.
Download for Mac getlinked.now/download/android-link.dmgAny device, phone or foldable on Android 11 or later. A screen at least 600 dp wide (most large devices, an unfolded foldable) can extend your Mac; a phone gets notifications, messages, calls, clipboard, files, camera and Mirror.
No. Sign in with the same Google account on the Mac and the device, and they are linked. Everything runs on the Link, end‑to‑end encrypted.
Yes, every feature. On the same Wi‑Fi your devices connect straight to each other. On another network or on mobile data they connect over the internet, and where the network blocks a direct connection (most mobile networks do) the Link goes through Cloudflare's relay, if you allow it in Settings. The relay only passes on data that is already end‑to‑end encrypted. Remote screen also needs Away from home turned on for that device, and it lowers the picture's bitrate to suit the connection.
No. On the same Wi‑Fi, linked devices stay connected and come back by themselves after a reboot, a sleep or a change of network. The Mac opens at login and wakes its devices with a silent push; a device wakes its Mac the same way. Away from home, press Connect on either side. Extend and Mirror only start when you choose them, unless you turn on Extend automatically. If you disconnect on purpose, it stays disconnected until you press Connect.
That's the idea. It uses the same virtual display API Sidecar uses, and the same words: Extend to use the device as another display, Mirror to see a device's screen. Sidecar needs an iPad; Link brings it to Android, along with the Continuity‑style phone features.
Only between your Mac and your devices. Google's Firebase introduces them and Cloudflare's relay may carry the Link when no direct path exists, but neither can read it: the Link is end‑to‑end encrypted (X25519 key agreement, AES‑GCM), and each side proves who it is with its own key. Only devices signed in to your Google account can link. If you leave it on, the apps send crash reports and anonymous usage to Firebase to help fix problems; you can turn that off in Settings. The privacy policy says exactly what is collected.
Link never asks for SMS permission. Messages and calls come from your phone's notifications, so you see what your phone shows you, from any chat app.
Choose Remove this Mac or Remove this phone from your account in the app, or follow Delete your account and data to remove everything Link holds for your Google account.
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