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Beyond the Devices

Android × macOS

A little more
connected.

Bring your Android phone and Mac closer together. Share your clipboard, control media, and keep your phone’s notifications in view — without treating your devices like separate worlds.

  • Local network
  • No account
  • TLS with pinning
Beyond the Devices

Clipboard

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Now playing

Sunset Lanes

Nightdrive

Notification

Ada · Messages

Landing at six — see you outside.

9:41

Clipboard

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Synced
Interface illustration · local connection

The gap

Two good devices. One awkward gap.

Individually, your phone and your Mac are the best tools you own. Together, they still ask you to be the messenger: copy a link on one, retype it on the other; pick up your phone to read a code that is already sitting in front of you.

Beyond the Devices closes that gap over the network you already have. No account to create, no cloud in the middle, and no new habit to learn — the two devices simply start behaving like they know each other.

What ships in 1.0.0

Five things it does well.

Not a platform. A focused set of things that remove small, daily friction between two devices.

01

Clipboard, both directions

Copy text on one device and paste it on the other. Mac-to-phone is immediate; the phone side is bound by an Android rule, explained below.

Android only lets the focused app read the clipboard. Copying on the phone syncs when you return to the app or tap the Sync now notification.

Mac · clipboard

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Phone · clipboard

Ship the release notes before five.

02

Media, without reaching over

See what the Mac is playing and move through it from your phone. Your phone's own playback shows up on the Mac too.

Now playing · Mac player

Sunset Lanes

Nightdrive

1:42
−3:18
03

Android notifications, on the Mac

Alerts arrive quietly beside your work, and supported apps can be answered from the Mac without picking the phone up.

Mirrored to Mac

AdaMessages

Landing at six — see you outside.

Design reviewCalendar

In 10 minutes · Studio

Route savedMaps

Home · 24 min

04

Links that cross over

Share a URL from any Android app and it opens on the Mac — in your browser, at the point you left off.

Shared from phone

beyondthedevices.com/changelog
opens on Mac
Default browser · new tab
05

Stays connected in the background

A foreground service and a menu bar item keep the link alive while you work, so the connection is there when you need it.

Menu bar

Connectedlocal

The menu bar item stays while the app keeps the connection alive in the background.

On the roadmap

Other features like file transfer, photo browsing and more are planned for future releases.

How it works

Three steps, then it is out of the way.

  1. 01

    Install the Mac app

    Download the disk image, drag the app to Applications and open it. It lives in your menu bar.

  2. 02

    Install the Android app

    The Android build is being prepared for Google Play. Verify with the Download page for the current status.

  3. 03

    Pair once

    The Mac shows a QR code with a code that expires. Scan it on the phone, then approve the device on the Mac.

Privacy & security

Private by architecture, not by promise.

Your phone and Mac talk to each other directly, over the network in your home or studio. There is no account system to secure because there is no account, and no server holding your data because there is no server.

Read the privacy policy
  • The link is TLS, pinned to the paired device's certificate.
  • Pairing codes expire, and the Mac has to approve the phone.
  • Pairing secrets live in EncryptedSharedPreferences on Android and the Keychain on macOS.
  • Traffic stays on your local network — there is no relay server in the middle.
  • The notification listener forwards only what it mirrors: title, text and a reply action.
  • There is no account, so there is no profile of you to build.

Make your devices feel like one.

Install it on both sides, pair once, and stop being the courier between your own devices.