Always-on, battery-aware connection
5-state lifecycle on Android — exponential backoff and a 5-minute deep-sleep wake. Targeting under 2% drain over 8 hours idle.
v1.0 in active development — join the waitlist
Your Android, Right on your Mac.
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A native bridge between macOS and Android over your local WiFi. Mirror notifications with inline reply, send SMS, take calls, sync clipboard, and drag files across — end-to-end encrypted, no cloud, no servers.
End-to-end encryptedNo cloud, no serversBattery-first designNative Mac & Android apps
Your devices. Your data.
Your data lives on your two devices — and nowhere else.
Plug Devices runs entirely between your phone and your laptop over your local WiFi. We don't run a server. We don't have an account system. We literally cannot see your messages, contacts, or files — there is no path from your devices to us.
No cloud, no accounts
There's no sign-up, no login, no server holding a copy of your messages or contacts. The bridge is two devices on your WiFi — and that's it.
Zero telemetry
No analytics. No crash reporters that phone home. No Sentry, no Firebase, no PostHog. If something breaks, you'll see a local log file you can email us — manually.
End-to-end encrypted
TLS 1.3 with a pinned self-signed certificate. Per-session AES-256-GCM. Pairing keys derived via X25519 ECDH and stored in your OS keychain — never on a server we don't have.
Only two outbound calls, ever
GitHub Releases for the Mac update check, once per launch. Google Play Billing for Android license verification. Nothing else, full stop.
v1.0 — Coming soon
Everything that lives between your phone and your laptop.
The features below ship in the first public release. We build them with two non-negotiables: no cloud servers and no measurable battery impact. The bridge is a single TLS WebSocket on your local WiFi.
Clipboard sync, both directions
Text and images move with you the moment you copy. SHA-256 loop guard so the bridge never echoes itself.
Continuity links
Right-click a URL on either device and it opens on the other — with smart Maps detection that routes Google or Apple Maps correctly.
Notification mirror with inline reply
Every phone notification banners on macOS — with per-pairing icon cache, app filter, and full inline reply for apps like WhatsApp.
SMS with dual-SIM and MMS
Send and receive SMS from your Mac, pick a SIM slot on dual-SIM phones, see MMS image thumbnails inline.
Calls — cellular and WhatsApp
Accept or decline cellular and WhatsApp calls from the Mac, with one-tap dial-out and dual-SIM aware routing.
How we're different
A native upgrade over KDE Connect.
KDE Connect was the first to prove the Mac ↔ Android pattern works, and it's a great project. But on macOS it runs through KDE Frameworks — a 200 MB install, a Qt-rendered UI, and a heartbeat that keeps your phone awake. Plug Devices is built ground-up to feel like a Mac app, with battery economics that match the OS.
| KDE Connect | Plug Devices | |
|---|---|---|
| Native macOS app | Qt-based, requires KDE Frameworks | SwiftUI, signed & notarized |
| Battery impact on Android | Continuous mDNS + heartbeat | 5-min deep-sleep + WiFi-gated |
| Inline notification reply | Limited / app-specific | Full RemoteInput support |
| Dual-SIM SMS | Not supported | First-class SIM picker |
| MMS image thumbnails | Not supported | 64 KiB inline thumbnails |
| macOS Notification Center mirror | Not on macOS | Via UNUserNotificationCenter |
| End-to-end encryption | Yes | TLS 1.3 + per-session AES-GCM |
| Open source | Yes (LGPL) | Mac free; Android paid |
v1.1 and beyond
What follows the first release.
We build v1.0 with calls. After that, the focus is files, contacts, and polish — the long tail of small daily-use moments where a phone and a laptop should already feel like one device.
File transfer with mid-flight resume
Drag a 1 GB folder onto the Mac sidebar and it streams to your phone in chunks. Switch networks halfway — it picks up where it left off.
Contacts sync
Search your phone's address book from the Mac — used as the autocomplete source for new SMS threads and call dial-out.
Media controls + WiFi lock
Play / pause / next from the Mac menu bar. Per-SSID auto-reconnect so Plug Devices only wakes on networks you actually trust.
Safari Web Extension
Send the current tab — or any link — straight to your phone from the Safari toolbar.
OEM battery guides
Samsung, Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi — each has its own "never sleeping apps" maze. The app walks you through the right toggles for your model.
mDNS auto-discovery
Today the QR carries an IP hint. After the next iteration, devices find each other automatically over Bonjour — no re-pair when your Mac's IP changes.
Waitlist
Be the first to plug in.
Drop your details below and we'll email you the moment the first beta build is ready. No newsletter, no marketing — one launch email when there's something to install.