Sidekick
Your Android phone on your Mac, over your own Wi-Fi
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Free beta. Sidekick connects an Android phone to an Apple-silicon Mac directly over your own Wi-Fi or the phone's hotspot. Mirror and control the phone's screen, see notifications and reply where the app allows, send SMS from your number, browse photos, send files, and answer or decline calls (audio stays on the phone). Pair with a QR code; no cloud server. Sign up with your email to get the Mac download and a beta token. macOS 11+ on M1 or later, Android 10+.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: screen mirroring and casting software · 76 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Mac
- Productivity
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More like this: all 76 launches in screen mirroring and casting software →
Could you build this?
Partial The Mac-side app and UI are vibe-codeable, but low-latency Android screen mirroring, the phone-side agent for notifications/SMS/calls, and Apple-silicon system integration require low-level platform expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version needs an Android companion app (Accessibility, NotificationListener, telephony permissions) plus a screen-capture and H.264 hardware-encoding pipeline streamed over local Wi-Fi or hotspot, with a native macOS client decoding it via VideoToolbox. The hard parts are latency tuning, reliable reconnection, and keeping up with OS permission changes, which takes experienced mobile and systems engineers to get right.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 518 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 519 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
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