Out now. Free in early access
Your PC,
in your pocket.
Your Windows desktop, live on your Android phone. Pick up where you left off, from the next room or another country.
Windows + Android · end-to-end encrypted · iPhone version coming soon
Why PC Tether
Everything important lives on your PC.
Then you walk out the door.
PC Tether keeps the line open to the machine itself, wherever you are.
Setup
Paired before you
finish reading this.
Open PC Tether on your PC. Scan the code, or type eight characters. That's the whole setup. Nothing to configure.
Direct, device to device, end-to-end encrypted.
Control
It feels like
touching the glass.
Your finger is the mouse. Tap where you want to click. Flick to scroll, and pinch when the print gets too small. Every gesture you already know lands on the real machine.
In session
One swipe brings
the whole toolkit.
Seeing your screen is only half the job. The control sheet covers the rest.
- Clipboard, both waysCopy here, paste on your PC.
- Send & receive filesStraight across. No cloud.
- Hear your PCIts sound, on your phone.
- PC alerts, savedPinged, and kept in history.
- Lock itFingerprint or PIN to take control.
- Block screenshotsKeep the session off the record.
Try it yourself
Drag a file to the edge.
It flies to your phone.
Nudge a file toward the side of your screen and a shelf slides out to meet it. Let go, and it lands on your phone. No cloud in the middle, no cable. And no more emailing things to yourself. Go on: drag the file below.
Drag me to the shelf ↘
or press Enter
We can’t see your screen.
Your screen goes straight from your PC to your phone, sealed end-to-end. The relay that introduces the two only ever sees scrambled data, and no switch turns that off. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics or trackers, and this page keeps nothing at all in your browser.
Get PC Tether
Free while we’re
in early access.
Nothing to pay, nothing to cancel. It's yours.
Android phone
From Google Play, or as a file.
Not on Google Play where you live, or no Play Store? The app file works on Android 7.0 or newer.
iPhone
Coming soonBuilt and submitted to Apple. Not approved yet.
Scan with your Android phone to open Google Play. Not offered where you are? Type pctether.com/dl/android in your phone's browser.
The Windows button is the PC half: an installer for your computer, 110 MB, which your phone cannot open. Get the Android app first if you have not already. When you are next at your computer, go to pctether.com and get it there. Download it here anyway
Install help: the Windows warning, work computers, the Android file
Windows pauses the first install with a box headed “Windows protected your PC”. We haven't bought the certificate that skips it yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. It then asks whether to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device, because this installer sets Tether up for everyone who uses the computer, not just your account. Click Yes. If you would rather check the file yourself first, the fingerprints for every download are published, with the command to run.
Using a work or school computer? That second prompt may ask for an administrator password instead of a simple Yes, and if you do not have one the install cannot finish. Use the version that installs just for you instead. It never asks for a password. The only thing it leaves out is signing in to Windows from your phone.
On Android, install from Google Play. If Google Play says the app is not available in your country, or your phone has no Play Store, download the app file instead. Android then asks more than once, because the file does not come from the Play Store. Your browser may say the file might be harmful: choose Download anyway. If the phone then says it cannot install apps from your browser, tap Settings, turn on Allow from this source, and it takes you back. Tap Install. A box headed “App scan recommended” may then appear. If you would rather not send the file to Google, tap More details and then Install without scanning, because once the scan starts that choice is gone. Otherwise tap Scan app, wait about fifteen seconds, then tap Install when it says the app looks safe. These are the standard steps for any app that does not come from the Play Store; nothing has gone wrong.
- Install PC Tether on your Windows PC.
- Install the app on your Android phone.
- Open both. Scan the code your PC shows, or type it. Connected.
Remote access is free too, for now.
Away from your own network, your phone reaches your PC through our relay, which cannot read the sealed traffic. That takes a code. In early access the code is free and we email it straight away. It lasts 30 days from the first time you use it, here or in the app, and you have 90 days to start. On your own network nothing changes when it ends.
Leave your email and we'll send you a code.
One email with your code. Nothing else, ever.
The only things we keep are the email you type here, used just to send you a code, and a short note of which page you asked from. Never sold, never used for ads. Ask us any time and we'll delete it. Remove me
A code is only needed to reach your PC when you are away from your own network.
Your code is checked over an encrypted connection and never stored in your browser.