Cyclop Connect

Your computer and your phone stop being two machines.

A call comes in and the music on your computer goes quiet by itself. A message

arrives on your phone and you answer it from your keyboard. A file goes from

one screen to the other without a cable, without an account, without leaving

your home network.

WHAT IT DOES

Notifications, both ways. Your phone's notifications appear on your computer,

with their icon, and you can reply without picking the phone up.

Messages. Read and write your SMS from your computer, with a real keyboard.

Calls. Your computer lowers its volume when the phone rings and puts it back

when the call ends.

Files and links. Send anything to the other screen in one gesture, at local

network speed.

Media. Pause, skip and set the volume of what your computer is playing, from

your pocket.

Mouse and keyboard. Your phone becomes the touchpad and keyboard of your

computer, useful when the screen is across the room. This works in one

direction only: the phone sends pointer movement and typing to the computer.

The computer never controls the phone, and Cyclop Connect cannot tap, type or

read anything on the phone screen.

Presenter. Hold one button and point: a laser dot follows the phone on your

slides, and the arrows change slide.

Battery and clipboard. Your computer knows how much charge your phone has

left, and a copied text can cross from one to the other.

Find my phone. Make it ring from the computer, even on silent.

WHAT IT ASKS FOR, AND WHY

Notification access. Android calls this "Notification access", and it is what

lets your phone's notifications appear on your computer and lets you answer a

message from your keyboard. You switch it on yourself, in the system settings,

and you can switch it off at any time; the rest of the application keeps

working without it. Notifications are sent only to the computer you have

paired, on your own network, and they are never stored or forwarded anywhere

else.

Cyclop Connect does NOT use the AccessibilityService API. It does not read or

act on the screen of your phone, it does not change your settings, it does not

record calls, and it does not prevent any application from being disabled or

uninstalled. An earlier version offered controlling the phone from the

computer; that feature and the accessibility service it required were removed,

and the application no longer declares one.

WHAT IT NEEDS

A computer running Cyclop OS with a Pro, Gaming, Education or Enterprise

licence, and both devices on the same network. The application will tell you

if the computer it finds cannot be paired, and why.

PRIVACY

Nothing goes through a server of ours, or anybody else's. The two devices talk

to each other directly on your local network, over a channel each one

authenticates with its own certificate, created on the device and never sent

anywhere. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.

Cyclop Connect is built by Cyclop Technologies, a European company with North

African roots, on open source code.