KDE Connect

KDE Connect integrates your smartphone and computer

KDE Connect - Integrate Your Smartphone and Computer

"KDE Connect" is an open-source app that integrates your smartphone and computer, facilitating file transfers, notifications sync, and remote control. It operates over WiFi with end-to-end encryption, ensuring your data's safety. With features like shared clipboard, multimedia control, and remote input, it enhances your workflow across devices. Keep in mind that you need to install the desktop version for full functionality.

Download

App stats

By: KDE Community

Users: 2,140,731

7.76K

Rating: 4.05

(25,055)

22 new ratings

Version: 1.32.5 - Play Store (Last updated: 2024-10-02)

Creation date: 2013-09-04

Email: pl*****@kde.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Device & app history: read sensitive log data

Contacts: read your contacts

Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)

SMS:

read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
receive text messages (MMS)
receive text messages (SMS)
send SMS messages

Phone: read call log, read phone status and identity

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Microphone: record audio

Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity

Other:

download files without notification
view network connections
pair with Bluetooth devices
access Bluetooth settings
change network connectivity
allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
full network access
run at startup
draw over other apps
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

# 37,417 ▲ 4

Other platforms

KDE Connect (v0.1.7)

3.85

(34) 6,000

KDE Connect (v0.1.7)

4.16

(25) 1,491

Not available on Edge

Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Android apps? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Android-Stats data as you browse the Google Play Store.

App summary

Analyze keywords

KDE Connect provides a set of features to integrate your workflow across devices:

- Transfer files between your devices.
- Access files on your phone from your computer, without wires.
- Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your devices.
- Get notifications for incoming calls and messages on your computer.
- Virtual touchpad: Use your phone screen as your computer's touchpad.
- Notifications sync: Access your phone notifications from your computer and reply to messages.
- Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players.
- WiFi connection: no USB wire or bluetooth needed.
- End-to-end TLS encryption: your information is safe.

Please note you will need to install KDE Connect on your computer for this app to work, and keep the desktop version up-to-date with the Android version for the latest features to work.

Sensitive permissions information:
* Accessibility permission: Required to receive input from another device to control your Android phone, if you use the Remote Input feature.
* Background location permission: Required to know to which WiFi network you are connected to, if you use the Trusted Networks feature.

KDE Connect never sends any information to KDE nor to any third party. KDE Connect sends data from one device to the other directly using the local network, never through the internet, and using end to end encryption.

This app is part of an open source project and it exists thanks to all the people who contributed to it. Visit the website to grab the source code.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great for Linux users with seamless integration between phone and computer.
Intuitive controls and useful features like remote file browsing and copy-paste across devices.
Easy to set up and connect devices, making file transfers straightforward.
Offers unique functionalities like controlling media players remotely and reading notifications on a computer.

Cons

Frequent connectivity issues, where devices fail to stay connected or find each other.
Bugs in recent updates that affect functionality, such as problems with notifications and remote inputs.
Configuration can be complex, requiring tech-savvy users to fully utilize the app.
Design and usability flaws, particularly with scrolling during remote input.

Most mentioned

Connectivity issues and device discovery problems.
Bugs in recent updates affecting previous functionalities.
Praise for its integration with Linux and the variety of features it offers.

User reviews

Very useful app. Took a bit of work to get connected the first time but I haven't had any trouble with that since. What I do have an issue with is the app overlapping behind the top status bar & bottom navigation bar making some of the controls literally impossible to use....

EnragedN3wb, 2024-12-16

Absolute godsend of an application. However, Google's increasingly heinous storage restrictions make anything involving files a nightmare... Just recently, they even blocked the Download folder from being used, so send/receive files does not work with default settings. Incredibly disappointed in Google's decisions to cripple this application...

Maxx Jaeger (40percent), 2024-11-02

Have the exact same issue as others where the app simply refuses to find any device on my network all of a sudden after it randomly let it pair with my phone. Great app if it wasn't so buggy, the updates haven't done anything to alleviate this problem I been dealing with this issue since July of 2023. If it weren't for this infuriating issue I'd say it's the best remote software for phone to pc on the play store.