Alongside

Alongside lets you control your Android phone without leaving your Mac's mouse and keyboard. Push the cursor past the edge of your Mac's display and it lands on your phone. Click, scroll, drag and type there with the mouse, trackpad and keyboard you already use. Press Esc, or keep moving, and you're back on the Mac.

No more picking up the phone to answer a message, fill in a form or test an app. Your hands stay on the keyboard.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Install Alongside on your phone and the free Alongside app on your Mac (alongside.kuarasoft.com).
2. Turn on USB debugging on the phone and plug it in.
3. Place the phone next to your screens in the Mac app, then move the cursor over.

There's no mirroring and no lag from streaming video: you look at the phone itself, and Alongside sends your mouse and keyboard to it directly.

FREE
- Mouse and trackpad control with no time limit
- One phone over USB

ALONGSIDE PRO
- Unlimited keyboard: type in any app, including non-English text
- Clipboard and files: Cmd+C on the Mac, Cmd+V on the phone, and back; drag files across
- Wi-Fi: control the phone without a cable
- More phones: several phones side by side, each at its own screen edge

HANDY SHORTCUTS
Right click for Back, force click for Home, Option+H for Home, Option+R for Recents, Option+S for a screenshot, Option+arrow keys for volume and brightness, and Cmd+C / Cmd+V / Cmd+Z mapped to their Android equivalents.

PRIVACY
Your clicks, keystrokes, clipboard and files travel only between your phone and your Mac, over USB or your local Wi-Fi. They never reach our servers. An account is only needed for Pro.

REQUIREMENTS
- A Mac running macOS with the Alongside Mac app
- An Android phone (Android 8.0 or newer) with USB debugging turned on

Alongside uses a foreground service to keep the connection to your Mac open while you control the phone, and shows a notification while it runs.

Questions or feedback: support@kuarasoft.com