LIAME
li.a.me, Portuguese, masculine noun
That which links, binds or joins one thing to another. E.g.: the liame between the PC and the phone.
A free app that joins your Windows PC and your Android phone: sound, camera, microphone, controls, files and notifications go from one to the other over your own network.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and Android 9 or newer. Install it on both.
Instead of one app for each thing, a single one that connects by itself when both are on the same network or linked by the USB cable.
Games, videos and music from the PC on the phone's headphones or speaker. In the Game profile, the delay measured on a Galaxy S25 FE is around 25 ms. The phone's player controls what plays on the PC with the buttons each app accepts: shuffle and repeat on Spotify, back and forward 5 or 10 s on YouTube.
The phone camera shows up as "Liame Camera" in Discord, Zoom, Meet, Teams and OBS, and turns on by itself when an app opens it.
Mouse, keyboard and a button panel you build yourself: shortcuts, programs, OBS scenes, volume and sequences of actions in one tap.
Text, images, links and files go from one device to the other. In any app, select some text and tap Copy on PC; new photos on the phone can go by themselves to a folder on the PC.
Notifications and calls show up in Windows; you can reply to messages and see the phone screen in a window on the PC.
QR codes and barcodes read with the phone camera become text typed wherever the cursor is on the PC.
Open Liame-Setup.exe. It installs only for your user, without asking for administrator rights. If Windows warns that the app is unknown, tap "More info" and "Run anyway".
Open Liame-android.apk and allow the installation when Android asks. After that, updates arrive through the PC itself.
In the app, tap Pair with this PC and check that the 6-digit code is the same on both screens. From then on, it connects by itself.
No account, no ads and no data collection. What passes between the PC and the phone stays on your network.
After pairing, everything is encrypted (AES-256-GCM), with keys kept by Windows and by Android.
The internet is only used to look for new versions on GitHub, download them when you tap Update, and download the VB-CABLE microphone driver if you ask for it.
Liame is and will stay free. If it makes your day easier, you can support the project with any amount, by Pix or card. No feature depends on it.
Payment happens on LivePix (livepix.gg/liame).
