Sidekick - Your Android phone on your Mac, over your own Wi-Fi
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Free beta. Sidekick connects an Android phone to an Apple-silicon Mac directly over your own Wi-Fi or the phone's hotspot. Mirror and control the phone's screen, see notifications and reply where the app allows, send SMS from your number, browse photos, send files, and answer or decline calls (audio stays on the phone). Pair with a QR code; no cloud server. Sign up with your email to get the Mac download and a beta token. macOS 11+ on M1 or later, Android 10+.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Chetan, and I built Sidekick on my own. It's a free beta.
My phone is Android and my laptop is a Mac. Continuity is for iPhone and Phone Link is for Windows, so I built the bridge I wanted: a Mac app and an Android app that talk directly over your Wi-Fi (or your phone's hotspot), with nothing going through a cloud server.
What works in this beta: screen mirroring with mouse control, notifications (reply where the app supports it), SMS from your own number, photos and files, and call answer/decline (audio stays on the phone).
What doesn't, to be honest:
Intel Macs, iPhone and Windows aren't supported. Texts are SMS, not RCS or WhatsApp chats. Android asks for permission each time mirroring starts.
The Mac app isn't notarized yet, so the first time you open it macOS will ask you to allow it under System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway.
You sign up with your email to get the Mac download and a beta token. Android is a Google Play test: I add your Google account by hand, usually within a day.
One beta tester with a Galaxy A34 can't pair yet. I'm still investigating that, so if pairing fails for you, please tell me here. It helps a lot.
The video and images are an animated illustration of the app with an AI voice, not a screen recording.
One question for you: if you use Android with a Mac, which of these do you actually need most day to day? That's what I'll work on next.