SCRCPY
Mirror and control your Android device from your computer
Details
- External ID
- 1263867
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- SCRCPY
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
SCRCPY lets you mirror and control Android devices from Windows, macOS, or Linux without installing an app on your phone. It supports USB and TCP/IP connections, keyboard and mouse control, recording, audio forwarding, copy-paste, OTG mode, and more. It is free, open source, lightweight, and requires no account or ads.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen mirroring and control tool for android devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Scrcpy requires deep low-level systems programming in C, low-latency video streaming (H.264/H.265 encoding on Android via MediaCodec), and low-level USB/ADB protocol manipulation.
What it would actually take: Scrcpy uses a custom client-server architecture: an on-device Java server pushed via ADB that accesses Android's private surface/input APIs and hardware video encoder (MediaCodec), coupled with a native C/SDL desktop client. Low latency (<50ms) is achieved through unbuffered socket streaming, hardware-accelerated video decoding (FFmpeg), and raw HID/AOA input injection over USB. Building this requires deep systems-level knowledge of the Android OS internals, video codecs, and cross-platform native C development.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 150 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- omarchy-android-mirror · github · 2026-09-17 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Remote Magic Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HandyPC · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Any Display · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Relay · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- PC Controller · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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