PhoneDesk lives in your menu bar and drives your phone's real desktop mode — Samsung DEX or Pixel — as a window on your Mac. One click, USB or wireless, no cables required after setup.
$25 one-time · lifetime license · 14-day refund
No Dock icon, no launcher, no fuss — just a menu bar dropdown and a real window.
Drives Samsung DEX (confirmed on Galaxy Z Fold 6) and the Pixel 9 Pro's built-in desktop mode as a normal resizable macOS window — not a phone screen crammed into a box.
Prefer the phone screen to stay off during a session? The virtual-display variant runs desktop mode without lighting up the device.
Start over USB, then switch to Wi-Fi with one click. Or skip cables entirely — pair wirelessly with a QR code or pairing code, straight from Android's own Wireless debugging screen.
Plug in any phone with USB debugging on and it just appears — name, resolution, and Wi-Fi port are detected automatically. Everything is still editable if you want to tune it.
No Dock icon, no app switcher clutter. Desktop Mode, Mirror Screen, and Switch to Wi-Fi live in a lightweight menu bar dropdown, per device.
Ships through Sparkle so you always have the latest build. Signed and notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper workarounds.
The same guided setup that shows the first time you open the app.
On the phone: Settings → About phone → tap Build number seven times.
Settings → System → Developer options → enable USB debugging.
Plug in over USB, or pair wirelessly with a QR code. No drivers to install on the Mac.
One click from the menu bar. Your phone opens as a full desktop window, right there on your Mac.
A real walkthrough pairing a Galaxy Z Fold 6 and launching Desktop Mode as a window on the Mac.
One-time. No subscription, no trial gate.
One purchase, updates for life — delivered automatically through the built-in updater.
Jul 18, 2026
Yes — PhoneDesk drives Samsung DEX as a resizable window on your Mac, confirmed on the Galaxy Z Fold 6. It's the same DEX session your phone already supports; PhoneDesk just puts it in a proper macOS window instead of requiring a separate monitor or dock.
Any Android phone with "desk-eligible" desktop mode built in — confirmed on Samsung DEX (Galaxy Z Fold 6) and the Pixel 9 Pro. Other phones with USB debugging enabled will still connect for screen mirroring even without native desktop mode.
PhoneDesk bundles adb and scrcpy, so there's nothing extra to install on the Mac. USB debugging just needs to be turned on in the phone's Developer options.
Regular Desktop Mode shows a small overlay on the phone screen during the session — that's the trade-off Android requires for desk-eligible display. The invisible virtual-display variant skips that (needs one root device property flipped), so the phone screen stays off.
No — Android drops the Wi-Fi adb connection on reboot, so you'll reconnect over USB once (or re-pair wirelessly) after restarting the phone.
No. $25 once, yours for life, including future updates via the built-in auto-updater.
14-day no-questions refund. Just reply to your license email.