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.
Same app also turns your phone into a real second monitor for your Mac, and sends files and text from phone to Mac in one tap.
$25 one-time · lifetime license · 14-day refund
Real windows, real menu bar — no mockups pretending to be the product.
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.
Flip the direction: PhoneDesk creates a real macOS display and streams it to your phone, which renders it as an actual arrangeable second monitor — drag windows onto it like any other screen. Works over USB or Wi-Fi.
Share from any app, pick files in the companion app, or drag and drop onto its window — files land in Downloads and shared text lands on your clipboard. No cable-drag, no MTP mount.
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 20, 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.
Full Samsung DEX for Mac setup guide →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.
Yes — pick "Use as Second Display" and PhoneDesk creates a real, arrangeable macOS display and streams it to your phone over USB or Wi-Fi. It shows up in Displays settings like any other monitor, and you can drag windows onto it.
Full second monitor setup guide →Share from any app on your phone (PhoneDesk shows up as a "Send to Mac" share target), pick files in the companion app, or drag and drop them onto its window during a desktop session. Files land straight in your Mac's Downloads folder; shared text or links land on your clipboard.
Full file transfer guide →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 — request it yourself from the manage-order page, or reply to your license email.
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