Seamless local file drops, live bidirectional clipboard synchronization, remote touchpad gestures, presentation clicker, media player remote, and system automations. Fast, beautiful, and completely offline.
Photos save to Pictures/ with instant gallery indexing. Videos route to Movies/, and documents go straight to Download/. No file pickers or tap confirms needed.
Take a screenshot of any coding challenge, math problem, or quiz question anywhere on your Mac. ScreenCaptureKit beams it straight to your tablet over Wi-Fi, where Google Gemini AI solves it instantly in simple human language—with syntax-highlighted code and 1-tap "Send to Mac Clipboard (⌘V)".
Structured Server-Sent Events (SSE) stream your clipboard across devices sub-10ms without hitting any external servers. Links, OTP codes, code snippets, and text sync automatically.
Includes multi-touch drag cursor motion, tap to click, two-finger/long-press right click, side scroll strip, and keyboard drawer with modifier keys.
Play, pause, skip tracks, and adjust your Mac's master output volume right from your couch or desk without reaching for the keyboard.
Lock your screen when stepping away, put your Mac to sleep, trigger clean desktop screenshots, launch Terminal, or send URLs to open instantly in Safari or Chrome.
MacBook and Moto Pad broadcast battery levels and charging states across Wi-Fi. Check your tablet's charge from your Mac menu bar, or see your Mac's battery right on your tablet.
Everything you love about Apple AirDrop and KDE Connect, unified into a clean, modern native stack.
Press ⌘⇧X anywhere on Mac to capture any question or coding problem. Beams to tablet & solves with Gemini AI in readable English with dark syntax code & 1-tap Mac pasteboard copy.
Hit ⌘⇧D from any app on macOS. High-performance ScreenCaptureKit grabs retina screenshots and beams them directly into Android Pictures/LaptopTransfer/.
Pair and connect ADB wirelessly over Wi-Fi without needing a USB cable or typing adb connect ip:port. Integrated developer options pairing modal.
Customizable buttons on your tablet or Mac to trigger shell scripts (e.g., npm run dev, git pull, docker-compose) with live terminal output.
Stream your phone's high-res camera directly into Zoom, Google Meet, or OBS Studio as a virtual webcam, or inspect live in a floating Mac window at 720p 30fps.
See who is calling your phone on your Mac screen with 1-click "Decline with Quick Message" and ringer mute, plus full notification mirroring with inline reply.
Photos automatically index in Gallery (Pictures/), videos show up in Video Players (Movies/), and documents go directly to Download/.
Copy text on your Mac and immediately paste it on your tablet. Copy an OTP code on your phone and press Cmd+V on your Mac.
Full trackpad cursor movement with tap-to-click, double click, right click, scroll strip, and keyboard text entry into any Mac window.
Slide control with large forward/backward tap buttons, presentation timer, F5 full-screen start, and B blackout key for keynote lectures.
Ring your tablet from your Mac with a loud alarm sound and vibration even when set to silent, or ring your Mac loudly from your tablet.
No cloud relays, no tracking, and no external internet required. Direct peer-to-peer TCP on your local router with SHA-256 tokens.
A clean, lightweight HTTP/REST and Server-Sent Events (SSE) protocol with zero third-party cloud intermediaries.
CGEvent synthetic input dispatchURLSession.bytes SSE streamingIOKit.ps power source battery monitoring:8765MediaStore zero-confirmation direct routingNotificationListenerService for incoming alerts| Method & Endpoint | Purpose | Auth |
|---|---|---|
| GET /api/v1/ping | Service health, battery percentage, & feature flags | Public |
| POST /api/v1/pair | PIN code exchange & SHA-256 token authorization | PIN Validated |
| GET /api/v1/events | Persistent SSE stream (Input, Media, Commands, Notifications) | Bearer Token |
| POST /api/v1/transfer/init | Chunked zero-click file upload stream | Bearer Token |
| POST /api/v1/ai/solve | Multimodal vision question solver with Gemini AI (⌘⇧X) | Bearer Token |
| POST /api/v1/ring | Trigger maximum volume locator alarm | Bearer Token |
Download ready-to-run pre-compiled packages directly from GitHub. Zero account required.
Native Apple Silicon build. Runs silently in your menu bar with instant global hotkeys (⌘⇧X AI question solver, ⌘⇧D screenshot beam, drag-to-drop menu bar target).
Receiver service with background foreground notification, Gemini AI Vision Question Solver, live trackpad, presentation clicker & MediaStore auto-routing.
No. Core BeamDrop file sharing, clipboard sync, trackpad, and commands work 100% offline. Both devices simply connect to the same Wi-Fi network, personal mobile hotspot, or local router. (Gemini AI Question Solver requires internet on the tablet only to query the Google Gemini Vision API).
Pressing ⌘⇧X or ⌥⌘A on your Mac automatically captures a high-resolution screenshot using ScreenCaptureKit and sends it across Wi-Fi to your tablet. Your tablet solves it in the background using Google Gemini AI, displaying the step-by-step logic and code with a 1-tap button to sync the code back to your Mac clipboard (⌘V).
BeamDrop includes all primary KDE Connect features (touchpad, media player remote, slide clicker, commands, battery status, notifications, find device) but is built natively in modern Swift/SwiftUI for macOS and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android. It has zero Qt or C++ runtime bloat and adds zero-confirmation MediaStore photo/video routing.
Yes. Communication occurs directly between your Mac and tablet over authenticated TCP sockets protected by pairing secrets and SHA-256 tokens stored securely in macOS Keychain and Android Keystore.
Yes. You can install `BeamDrop-Receiver.apk` on as many Android phones, tablets, or Android TVs as you like. Each device pairs independently with its own 6-digit PIN.