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KDE Connect, DroidCam and AudioRelay in one app, for Linux
One free app instead of three on Linux: files and clipboard, your Android phone as a webcam and a microphone, plus screens and a second display.
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Guides
Step by step, with the app's own buttons.
- Use your Android phone as a camera in OBS Studio on LinuxAdd your Android phone to OBS Studio on Linux as a PipeWire camera, at up to 1080p and 60 fps, with Linksy. Free, open source, no driver needed for OBS.
- Phone as a webcam for Meet, Zoom and Discord on LinuxUse your Android phone as a webcam in Google Meet, Zoom, Discord and browser calls on Linux. Linksy makes a Linksy Camera device with v4l2loopback.
Comparisons
How Linksy compares, including where the others are ahead.
- Linksy, a KDE Connect alternative for Linux and AndroidLinksy vs KDE Connect and GSConnect: what both do, what Linksy adds (screens, a second display, a webcam, a terminal), and where KDE Connect is ahead.
- Linksy, a DroidCam alternative: your phone as a Linux webcamUse your Android phone as a webcam on Linux, at up to 1080p and 60 fps, in calls, browsers and OBS. How Linksy compares with DroidCam.
- Your phone as a Linux microphone: Linksy vs AudioRelayLinksy turns your Android phone into a microphone for your Linux computer. What it shares with AudioRelay, and what only AudioRelay does.
How Linksy works
What happens to your data, and how the project is run.
- How Linksy's relay works, and why we say no cloudAway from home, an open-source iroh relay helps your devices find each other. It forwards encrypted packets it can't read, and keeps nothing.
- Linksy is open source, for the long runLinksy for Linux is free software under the GNU AGPL, built in the open with a public roadmap, and maintained for the long term.