screenless

See it in action

Everything in this clip is driven from the laptop. The phone's own display is off.

Settings → Chrome → this website, scrolled with the mouse. Recorded straight from the phone with scrcpy --record.

What you get

One click

Double-click Phone. USB if the cable's in, Wi-Fi if not. Quality is tuned for each, and the phone's IP is remembered.

No phone screen needed

Mouse, keyboard, clipboard and pattern unlock from the laptop. The phone's damaged display stays off.

Wireless

Run once over USB and it switches the phone into wireless mode. After that, no cable.

Any laptop

Copy the phone's trusted key to a friend's laptop and it connects with no "Allow?" prompt.

Faster phone

Reversible tuning: quicker animations, stay-awake, bloatware off. +210 MB free RAM on a moto g30.

A real Mac app

Your phone as a card, one click to mirror, reconnects by itself. Native Swift, 308 KB.

AI setup

Open OpenCode or Claude Code in the folder and say “connect my phone”. It follows AGENTS.md.

The Mac app

Typing a command every time got old, so it became an app.

It's a small native Mac app, 308 KB, written in Swift. Your phone shows up as a card. Click Mirror and it's on your screen, over Wi-Fi or USB. If the Wi-Fi drops for a second, it reconnects on its own. Everything in the clip below runs from the Mac, with the phone's own screen off and no cable plugged in.

Recorded on a Mac, 31 Oct 2026. Settings → this website in Chrome → calculator (2026 × 12 = 24,312). The moto g30 is on a phone hotspot; nothing is plugged in.

The screenless Mac app: a card for the moto g(30) reading Wi-Fi, ready to mirror, with Mirror, Stop, Snapshot, Pair wizard and Saved devices buttons

What's in it:

A card for every phone it can see, with its address
Mirror and Stop, plus a status light
A pairing wizard for Android 11+ phones
Snapshot, for a quick screenshot of the phone

cd screenless/app/macos
./build.sh --install

Set up on Windows

Turn on USB debugging
Settings → About phone → tap Build number 7×. Then Developer options → USB debugging ON and Disable ADB authorisation timeout ON.

Get the project and install

Installs scrcpy and puts a “Phone” shortcut on your Desktop.

git clone https://github.com/prutxvi/screenless C:\screenless
cd C:\screenless\windows
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1

Plug in and double-click Phone
First time only: tap Always allow on the phone. The mirror opens.
Go wireless
Unplug, double-click Phone again. Same Wi-Fi network needed.

Measured on a moto g30

	Before	After	What changed
Free RAM	650 MB	860 MB	12 background bloat apps disabled
Animations	1.0×	0.5×	Screens open about twice as fast
Mirror black on Wi-Fi	Yes	No	Stay-awake that works without charging
Wi-Fi ping, 2.4 GHz hotspot	166 ms avg	—	Network-bound: use 5 GHz or USB