Poket PC for Android lets you control a Mac from your Android phone. You see the Mac’s screen live, work it with a trackpad or by touching what you see, type into it, or give the assistant on the Mac a task and let it keep going after you put the phone down. The app is free on Google Play, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no account.
A Windows version of the helper is in development and not available yet, so today the computer you control is a Mac. The app’s interface is in English in version 1.0.
On the Mac, click the Poket PC icon in the menu bar and choose Pair New Device. In the app, tap Scan QR code and point the camera at the code. Check that the six-digit code on the phone matches the one on the Mac, then confirm. The code is part of the encrypted handshake, so a wrong one fails rather than pairing the wrong device.
From then on, tap your Mac in Hosts to connect. The app connects directly when both devices are on the same Wi-Fi and through the Poket PC relay when you are away, and it reconnects by itself if the link drops. No port forwarding, no VPN.
Remote shows your Mac’s main display live, and you can pinch to zoom in on small text. Two ways to point:
The keyboard types into whichever Mac app is in front. A modifier bar adds Shift, Ctrl, Option and Cmd: tap a modifier once for the next key, or twice to lock it. Esc, Tab and the arrow keys are there too, so shortcuts and menu navigation work from the phone. A hardware keyboard and mouse connected to the phone work as well.
Ask takes a task in plain words and the assistant carries it out on your Mac. Before it starts, you choose how far it may reach: Screen, Quiet or Tools. You can follow each step as it happens and stop it whenever you like, and it keeps working if the phone disconnects.
The Agent tab shows what the assistant remembers and lets you teach it new facts, look back at past tasks and put one back in the composer, and schedule a task to run on the Mac by itself. In Settings you choose which model on your Mac runs future tasks.
The assistant runs on your Mac with the model you set up there: your Claude subscription through Claude Code, or a local model in Ollama. You pay that provider directly, or nothing for a local model; Poket PC does not resell model usage. Remote control and the keyboard work without any model. Scheduled runs never look at the screen, so they need a model that works without it, such as a local model; the Claude subscription cannot run them. More on this in Ask.
The security page explains the pairing code, the relay and the encryption in full.
Prefer an iPhone? The iPhone app is in public beta. Every platform and its status is on the download page.
Yes. Poket PC: Remote Desktop & AI is free on Google Play, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
A 64-bit Android phone with Android 9 or later.
Not yet. In 1.0 the computer you control is a Mac running the free Poket PC helper. A Windows version of the helper is in development.
No. You pair the phone with the Mac once by QR code. There is no sign-in.
Yes. The app connects directly when both are on the same Wi-Fi and through the encrypted relay when you are away. No VPN or port forwarding.