Remote control for your own devices
Drive your PC from your phone, your tablet from your laptop, and send files between them in seconds. CTRL connects your devices directly, encrypts everything, and only ever connects the ones on your account.
Free. Version 0.5.1, released 26 October 2026.
How it works
Put CTRL on the PC or phone you want to reach. It waits quietly in the background, ready when you are.
CTRL setupOn that device, choose Be controlled. CTRL shows its ID and a password. That’s all the other device needs.
On the device in your hands, type the ID and password and press Connect. Devices you link once appear in a list, one tap away.
Features
Not a screen viewer. A complete remote, built for the devices people actually own.
Mouse and keyboard work as if you were sitting there. On a phone, tap to click, long-press to right-click and pinch to zoom, or switch to trackpad mode for precise work. Ctrl+Alt+Del and the Windows key are one tap away.
Green means your devices can reach it. Tap it.
Send a 2 GB video or a folder of photos. On the same Wi-Fi, files go straight across your network, never through the internet.
Text you copy on the PC turns up on the phone controlling it, ready to paste.
Two or three screens on that PC? Switch between them from the viewer.
Reach your PC when nobody is there, or have someone at it click Allow before each session. Your choice, for each device.
CTRL takes the shortest way between your devices, and still gets through when networks are strict.
Security
A remote control app has to earn your trust before it does anything else. Here is how CTRL does.
Video, input and files travel inside a DTLS-SRTP connection that only the two devices can read. Not even CTRL can see inside.
Your devices connect directly whenever the network allows. CTRL’s servers only introduce them to each other.
A device can only reach devices linked to the same account. The database checks it on every single request.
A controlled PC shows a banner with Pause and End. A controlled phone shows it in its notifications.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X ends every session on a PC instantly. The power switch turns CTRL off completely.
Protect your account with an authenticator app, and see every session, who and when, in History.
Everything CTRL doesn’t need was taken out before it shipped.
Download
Version 0.5.1, released 26 October 2026. Free on every device.
For Windows 10 and 11. Control this PC from your other devices, and control them from it.
Download for WindowsWindows may say it protected your PC, because CTRL is new. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
For Android 10 and newer. Control your PC from your phone, or let this phone be controlled.
Download for AndroidOn a computer? Scan this with your phone’s camera to download it there.
Older phone with a 32-bit system? Get this version (36.8 MB).
Nothing to install. Open CTRL in Safari or any browser and control your other devices from there.
Open CTRL in your browserApple devices can control your other devices, but can’t be controlled yet. We’ll say when that changes.
Yes. CTRL is free to download and free to use, on every device.
Windows 10 and 11 PCs and Android 10 or newer phones and tablets can control and be controlled. iPhone, iPad and Mac control your other devices from the browser, but can’t be controlled yet.
They use it to sign in and find each other. Once connected, devices on the same Wi-Fi talk straight across your network, which is why big files go so fast.
Only your own linked devices, or someone you gave this device’s ID and password to. By default someone at the device taps Allow before anyone with the ID gets in, a controlled PC always shows a banner with End, and you can make a new password or turn ID access off at any time.
Your email address, the names and models of your devices, and a history of sessions: who connected to what, when and for how long. Never your screen, your keystrokes, your files or your clipboard. The privacy notice has the details.
Windows SmartScreen warns about apps it hasn’t seen many times yet, and CTRL is new. Choose More info, then Run anyway. You can check the download’s SHA-256 against the one on this page.
Download it, open the file, and when Android asks, allow your browser to install apps. Then tap Install, open CTRL and follow its setup steps.
Tap the power button in CTRL to turn it off on that device: nothing runs and nothing can connect until you turn it back on. To remove a device for good, open its menu in Devices and choose Remove.
