Help
Turn it on
Features that need a switch or a permission on the phone.
- Inbox not showing? Turn on your phone's messages in LinksyGet your Android phone's messages into Linksy's Inbox: the switch on the phone, Android's notification access, and what to do when it's greyed out.
- Gallery not showing? Let your computers see the phone's photosGet your Android phone's photos and videos into Linksy's Gallery: the switch on the phone, Android's photo permission, and what the messages mean.
Guides
Step by step, with the app's own buttons.
- Experimenting with Linksy: give your old phones a jobOld phones as a deck, a microphone and a webcam, a tablet as a second display, three computers together, and what doesn't work yet.
- Read and answer WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal messages on LinuxYour Android phone's chats, texts and mail on your Linux computer, made from its notifications, with reply where the app allows it. Free and open source.
- Use your Android phone as a Stream Deck for LinuxLinksy's Deck makes an Android phone a deck of buttons for your Linux computer: music, volume, the microphone, lock, power and your own commands.
- 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.
Something else? Ask on GitHub.