One app, one window
Each app runs on its own virtual display, so you can keep several open side by side while the phone stays free.
Early development · v0.3
Your Android phone, in a window on your desktop.
Open the whole phone, or give every app its own phone-shaped window. Control it with your mouse and keyboard. A free, open-source way to use Android screen mirroring in one small native app.
For Windows, macOS and Linux.
6 MBPortable Windows app
245–367 msFor a phone window to appear
0.95 sTo the first picture
Apache 2.0Free and open source
Timings measured over USB on one phone (Nothing A059, Android 16), after the first window of a session.
How it works
A straight line from the phone to your screen.
No account, no cloud and no app to install from a store. Video and input travel only between your phone and your computer.
01
Your phone
scrcpy-server captures the screen and encodes it as H.264.
02
ADB tunnel
Android's own debug bridge carries it over USB or Wi-Fi.
03
Native decoder
A Rust client decodes each frame and keeps only the newest.
04
Your window
The picture appears the moment a frame arrives, with no browser in between.
Screen videoYour clicks and keys
Features
Built around how you actually use a phone.
The labels are honest: "tested" means it has worked on a real phone, not just in code.
Mouse control
Click on the window and the phone responds. Right-click goes back, and the middle button goes home.
Wi-Fi pairing
Scan a QR code on the phone, or use a pairing code or IP address.
Drag and drop
Drop an APK to install it, or any other file to send it to the phone.
Clipboard sync
Copy on one side and paste on the other. You choose when it's on.
Recording and screenshots
Save the screen to MP4 or PNG straight into your Videos and Pictures folders.
Phone sound on your computer
Hear the phone through your speakers while you mirror the whole screen.
Install
Up and running in about a minute.
You need Android's ADB tool and a phone with USB debugging turned on.
Windows x64 (.exe)Recommended for youPortable: one file, nothing to install. Windows 10 or 11.
Download .exe
Windows x64 (.zip)Recommended for youThe same app, with its license files.
Download .zip
- Open the app and choose Install ADB if it asks. It downloads Google's ADB tool and checks it. To install it yourself, download SDK Platform-Tools and unzip it into
%LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenVysor. - The app isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you. If you trust this download, choose More info, then Run anyway.
SHA-256 checksums for every file are in SHA256SUMS.txt.
Preview Builds and passes its tests on macOS, but hasn't been tried on a real Mac with a phone yet.
Apple Silicon (.dmg)Recommended for youM-series Macs. Open it and drag the app to Applications.
Download .dmg
Intel (.dmg)Recommended for youIntel-based Macs.
Download .dmg
Apple Silicon (.zip)Recommended for youThe app bundle, without a disk image.
Download .zip
Intel (.zip)Recommended for youThe app bundle, without a disk image.
Download .zip
- Drag the app to Applications and try opening it once. It isn't notarized yet, so macOS stops it. Then choose System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
- If the app asks, choose Install ADB. It downloads Google's official tools for you.
Preview Opens and passes its tests on Linux, but hasn't mirrored a real phone yet.
Debian or Ubuntu (.deb)Recommended for youx64. Adds OpenVysor to your applications menu.
Download .deb
Any distribution (.tar.gz)Recommended for youx64. Needs glibc 2.35 or later.
Download .tar.gz
- Install the package. This also brings in ADB and its USB access rules.
sudo apt install ./OpenVysor-linux-x64.deb
Status
What works today, plainly.
OpenVysor is young, and testing so far has used one phone running Android 16.
- Live video of an app in its own windowTested
- Tapping on the phone with the mouseTested
- Phone-shaped windows, toolbar and full screenTested
- Clean exit with nothing left runningTested
- Whole-phone mirroringBeing tested
- Dragging, scrolling, typing and rotationBeing tested
- Reconnecting automaticallyBeing tested
- Clipboard sync, and drag and dropBeing tested
- Wi-Fi pairing and phone soundBeing tested
- Recording to MP4Being tested
- macOS and LinuxBeing tested
- Workspaces, per-app quality and key mappingIn the next release
- File browser and phone notificationsIn the next release
- Hardware video decodingNot done yet
- Installer and code signingNot done yet
- Sound in recordingsNot done yet
- End-to-end latency measurementsNot done yet
FAQ
Android screen mirroring, answered.
Is OpenVysor free?
Yes. It is free and open source under the Apache License 2.0, with no account and no paid tier.
Do I need to root my Android phone?
No. You only need to turn on USB debugging in Developer options.
Does my phone screen go through the cloud?
No. Video and input travel only between your phone and your computer, over USB or your own Wi-Fi.
Can I control my phone with a mouse and keyboard?
Yes, that is the point of the app. Clicking is confirmed on a real phone. Dragging, scrolling and typing are written and still being tested.
Which computers does it run on?
Windows 10 and 11 are ready to try. Preview builds for macOS and Linux pass their tests, and still need testing with a real phone.
Is OpenVysor related to Vysor or scrcpy?
OpenVysor is an independent open-source alternative and is not affiliated with Vysor. It runs the open-source scrcpy-server on the phone for capture and input, with its own desktop client.
Put your phone on your desktop.
Free to use, with nothing to sign up for.