Files, the clipboard, screens and your phone's camera and microphone go straight between your devices, over your own Wi‑Fi. No account, no cloud.
Drop files or whole folders on your phone, or share them to your computer from any app. If the Wi‑Fi drops, the transfer picks up where it stopped.
Once your phone and computer have met on the same Wi‑Fi, they can reach each other over the internet for a week: send a file home from a café, or ring the phone you left at the office.
A tablet or phone becomes an extra monitor: drag windows onto it and touch works as the mouse. Or watch your computer's screen from the couch, and take its mouse and keyboard once it says yes.
Its camera shows up as Linksy Camera in calls, browsers and OBS, with no driver to hunt for. Zoom, focus and the torch are on the computer too.
Check on a build, run Claude Code or fix a config from your phone: a real shell on your computer, with Esc, Ctrl, Tab and the arrows on hand.
Big files go straight from your phone to your computer over a Wi-Fi link of their own: about 80 MB/s, four times faster than through the router, with your internet still on. Linux 0.9.9 and Android 0.2.9 or newer.
Files, clipboard, links and Ring work over the internet too, end-to-end encrypted, for a week after your devices were together.
Phones, tablets and computers: pair each one once on the same Wi‑Fi, and from then on every device talks to every other, two Linux computers included.
Ask your phone where it is and see it on a map. It can say no, and nothing is kept.
Share a link from any phone app and it opens in your computer's browser.
Play, pause and skip what the computer plays from your phone. Calls pause it for you.
A folder you pick on the phone shows up in Files and every app's file dialog, like a USB drive.
See your phone's battery, and make it ring loudly, even on silent, to find it.
Walk away with your phone and the computer locks itself. It never unlocks.
English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Malagasy, Português, Русский and 中文, on the phone and the computer alike.
Linksy needs no sign-up and keeps nothing on a server. Your files, texts and screens go from one of your devices to the other, and the code that does it is open for anyone to read.
At home, over your own network, phone to computer. Away from home, still device to device when it can; otherwise through a relay that passes encrypted bytes and keeps nothing.
Every connection is QUIC with TLS 1.3, and each device checks the other's key, the one it trusted when you paired.
A device works with Linksy only after you pair it, by QR code or a six-digit code. From away, only for a week after you were last together.
Before anyone sees your screen, uses your camera or drives your mouse. Every time, not once.
Linksy for Linux on the computer, the Android app on the phone. Open it once: it adds anything your system is missing.
Add Device on the computer shows a QR code. Scan it with the phone, and they're paired.
From then on they find each other whenever they're on the same Wi‑Fi, and for a week when they're apart.
For x86_64 Linux with GTK 4.14 and libadwaita 1.5 or newer, and Android phones. Flathub and the AUR are next.
GNOME, KDE Plasma and other desktops
One command for every distribution. Paste it in a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://linksy.diary.mg/install.sh | sh It shows what it found (your system and desktop), asks which app you want, GNOME or KDE Plasma, and installs it with one password. Older systems get the Flatpak. See what it does
Paste this in a terminal. Your computer asks for your password once.
cd /tmp && curl -LO https://linksy.diary.mg/download/linksy-common_0.9.11_amd64.deb \
-LO https://linksy.diary.mg/download/linksy_0.9.11_amd64.deb \
&& sudo apt install ./linksy-common_0.9.11_amd64.deb ./linksy_0.9.11_amd64.deb Prefer to download the files? linksy-common_0.9.11_amd64.deb linksy_0.9.11_amd64.deb
The phone half of Linksy
Download the app, open it, and allow installing from your browser when Android asks.
Download the appOther versionsNo. On the same Wi-Fi your devices talk to each other directly, even with the internet down. The internet only comes in away from home.
Once two devices have been on the same Wi-Fi, they can reach each other over the internet for a week, and each time they're together again renews it. They connect directly when the networks allow it, otherwise through Linksy's relay, which only passes encrypted bytes and keeps nothing. Screens, control, browsing files, the camera and the microphone stay on the same network unless you allow them for that device.
No, there's no limit. Pair each device once while they're on the same network, which is how they exchange keys safely. From then on your phones, tablets and computers form a small network of their own: any device can reach any other you paired, two Linux computers included.
Usually not. If your system is missing something a feature needs, like a video codec, the webcam driver or a firewall rule, Linksy's Finish Setup opens the first time and adds it all in one go, asking for your password once.
In spirit, yes, and it covers the same everyday things. Linksy also mirrors and controls screens, turns a tablet into a second display and a phone into a webcam, and gives your phone a terminal on your computer.
Any Linux desktop: GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Cinnamon and others, and a Qt 6 version made for Plasma is coming. Screen sharing, the second display and remote control use the desktop's portals, so they work wherever the desktop provides them. Hyprland, Sway and niri are next on the roadmap.
Devices only connect when there's something to share, and drop the connection after a minute of quiet. Finding each other uses the network's normal discovery.
Not planned. Linksy is for Linux computers and Android phones, and tries to be the best at exactly that.
Yes. Linksy for Linux is free software under the GNU AGPL v3.0 or later, with no ads, no account and no paid tier.