Navette

Your Android phone and your Mac, together.

Copy on one, paste on the other. See your notifications, swap files, share the phone’s connection in one click. Just like an iPhone with a Mac.

Version 0.4.2 · 8.4 MB · Android 14 or later · free

Navette icon: a Mac screen and a phone showing the same card

Everything that was missing between Android and the Mac

Navette works over Wi-Fi on your network, or over Bluetooth when you don’t share one. Nothing goes through the internet.

Shared clipboard

Text, links and images copied on one device show up on the other, automatically or with one tap.

Notifications on the Mac

Your phone’s messages appear on the Mac, and you reply right there without picking up the phone.

Files and photos

Send files both ways, and browse the phone from the Mac just like in the Finder.

One-click hotspot

The Mac asks the phone to turn on its hotspot, then joins it on its own.

Ring your phone

Lost under a cushion? The Mac makes it ring, even on silent.

Private by design

End-to-end encrypted between your devices, with no account and no server. No data is collected.

Install Navette on your phone

Navette for Android is downloaded here, outside the Play Store, so Android will ask you to confirm a few things, just once.

  1. Download Navette on your phoneFrom the phone, tap “Download for Android” at the top of this page. On the Mac, Navette’s welcome screen shows a code to scan with the camera to land here.
  2. Open the downloaded fileTap the download notification. If Android asks, allow your browser to install apps (“Unknown sources”), then go back.
  3. Confirm the installationPlay Protect may say it doesn’t recognize the app, because it doesn’t come from the Play Store: tap “More details”, then “Install anyway”.
  4. Pair the phone with your MacOpen Navette on the phone, tap “Scan the Mac’s code”, then point it at the code Navette shows on the Mac. Both devices display the same verification code.
  5. Choose what you shareNavette then offers the useful permissions: notifications on the Mac, file access for the explorer, running in the background. All of them are optional.

To check the file: SHA-256 6cf69b93ef19952f16cce50425e4a4446e4fc18fa6ee09a5c55b1c9ca62db551
Signing certificate (SHA-256): 1a4d82925dc17a0c426cd82634622dba43510a271b89ced759adf306bc6825ef

Navette for Mac

The Mac app lives in the menu bar and in a window inspired by Windows’ “Phone Link”. It is coming soon to the Mac App Store: a free 30-day trial, then a one-time purchase.