Apple runs a members-only club. iPhones and Macs pass calls, texts and files back and forth like old friends, while everyone else waits outside. I have an Android phone and a Mac, and that never seemed fair.
AyPhone
Your Android phone, on your Mac. Calls, messages, notifications and files—over your own Wi-Fi, with no cloud and no account.
Download for MacmacOS 14+, Apple silicon & Intel · 3 MBDownload for AndroidAndroid 10+ (.apk) · 42 MB
Why should iPhones have all the fun?
So I built my own way in. AyPhone lets my Android phone do most of what an iPhone does with a Mac—calls, texts, notifications, clipboard, files—and then keeps going: phone apps in Mac windows, the phone as a trackpad, a remote for the Mac. Somewhere along the way I realised how good an ecosystem feels when you get to build it yourself.
Android phoneAndroid 10+
- Wi-FiFinds the Mac on your network—even when Bonjour is blocked
- USBPlug in and it switches over automatically
- BluetoothKeeps calls, texts and clipboard going when Wi-Fi keeps devices apart
MacmacOS 14+
Encrypted end to end with AES-256-GCM. Nothing passes through a server.
0cloud servers or accounts
1QR scan to pair
3ways to connect
256-bitAES-GCM encryption
Everything your phone does, without picking it up.
Copy on your phone. Paste on your Mac.
Or the other way round. Text and images both work, and on the Mac it’s just ⌘V.
Read it. Reply. Keep typing.
Notifications land on the Mac with their own buttons: Reply, Mark as read, Mute.
One-time codes, already copied.
When a verification code arrives by text, it’s on the Mac’s clipboard before you go looking for it.
Your phone rings. Your Mac picks up.
Calls from Phone, WhatsApp, Telegram and more pop up in a floating panel, even over full screen. Answer, decline, mute or hang up without leaving what you’re doing.
Drop a file. It’s on your phone.
Drag it onto the Dock icon or use Send to Phone in Finder. Share from the phone and it lands in the Mac’s Downloads.
Take a screenshot. It’s already here.
New screenshots come straight across, and your latest photos are a click away.
Your phone, in a Mac window.
Mirror the screen with sound, then click, swipe and type to control it.
Your phone is now a trackpad.
Steer the Mac from the sofa, play and pause its music, lock it, or make it ring when it’s gone missing.
And more
- Texts and contacts
- Call from the Mac
- Find my phone, even on silent
- Battery levels both ways
- Now playing with album art
- Phone apps in Mac windows
- Mute single apps
- Android home-screen widget
- Works over Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth
See it in action.
Notifications
Every notification, with all its buttons.
Phone notifications arrive on the Mac with the actions the app offers—Reply, Mark as read, Like, Mute. Clear one on either device and it’s gone from both.
- Choose whether notifications and calls show on this Mac
- One-time codes are copied to the clipboard as they arrive
- Skip apps you already have on the Mac, like Outlook, Teams or WhatsApp
Apps
Every phone app, one click away.
Search the phone’s apps from the Mac and open any of them on the phone. Plug in over USB once and they can run in their own Mac windows, over Wi-Fi from then on.
Files
Files go both ways.
Drag files onto the window or the Dock icon, or right-click in Finder and choose Send to Phone. Files from the phone land in Downloads, ready to drag anywhere.
On the phone
Your phone becomes a remote for your Mac.
The Android app shows the Mac’s battery and connection, pushes your clipboard and files across, and puts the Mac within reach.
- Lock the Mac, make it ring, or use the phone as a trackpad
- Play, pause, skip and change the Mac’s volume
- Quick toggles to pause alerts or mute the Mac
Pairing
Pair once. It reconnects on its own.
Scan a QR code from the phone and you’re done. Calls on the Mac over Bluetooth and the developer-only extras are there when you want them, and switched off until you do.
Four steps, once.
Download both apps
The Mac app and the Android app, from the buttons on this page.
Install them
Drag AyPhone into Applications on the Mac. Open the .apk on the phone and allow the install.
Pair with a QR code
Open the Mac app’s Pairing screen and scan the code from the phone.
Finish the checklist
Allow notification access, SMS and phone permissions, and unrestricted battery so it stays connected.
First launch on the Mac
AyPhone isn’t notarised by Apple yet, so macOS asks once: System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.
On the phone
The app is installed directly rather than from the Play Store, so Android asks you to allow installs from this source. If Play Protect says “App blocked to protect your device”, install it from a computer with adb, or pause Play Protect’s scanning for the install (details in the install guide on GitHub).
Reconnecting
When the Mac wakes it announces itself, and the phone reconnects straight away.
Built with
- SwiftUI (macOS)
- Kotlin + Jetpack Compose
- Bonjour discovery
- AES-256-GCM
- Hardware H.264 mirroring
- Bluetooth hands-free
Get AyPhone
You need both apps: one on the Mac, one on the phone. Pair them once and you’re done.