Changelog

What's new in 1.2.3

Release emails. You can now get an email whenever a new version of Synqed is out: sign up on synqed.studio/changelog. One email per release, nothing else, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

No changes to the app itself in this version; it's the first release announced to the new list. Everything from 1.2.2 is here: the Send Files window with ⌘V and Esc, transfer cards that close themselves, call shortcuts, and screen sharing that survives a short Wi-Fi drop.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.2.2

A Send Files window. A small floating window in the middle of your screen: drop files on it, click it to choose them, or press ⌘V to send what you've copied (files from Finder, or a copied image). Esc closes it. Settings → Files → "Send files opens" picks what the menu bar's Send files and the shortcut open: the notch, the shelf, or this window. The shelf can be switched on and off from the menu bar too, and takes ⌘V while it's open.

Transfer cards close themselves a few seconds after a transfer finishes (5s, 10s or never, in Settings). A failed one stays until you dismiss it.

Call shortcuts. Optional keys to answer and to decline or end a call (Settings → Calls). They're only held while a call is ringing or in progress. The call animation is calmer, too.

Screen sharing keeps going through a short Wi-Fi drop (up to a minute) instead of ending, and has a Lock button. Needs Synqed 1.0.10 on Android.

Fixes. The file picker no longer opens out of reach (and freezes Synqed) when you're in a full-screen app. The menu-bar callouts lost their shadow.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.2.1

A redesigned send shelf. The tab on the side of your screen is slimmer and slanted. Hover over it and the card falls open from the tab, then folds back up when you move away.

Click to choose files. Click the drop area to pick files to send; the separate Choose Files button is gone. The file picker now opens in front of your other apps instead of behind them.

Shelf colours. Settings → Files → Shelf colour: Default, Sand, Sage, Sky, Rose, Lavender or Black.

Also in 1.2.0, if you skipped it: a red dot on the menu-bar icon when a new version is out, with a click to download it. If you're on 1.2.0, that's how you got here.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.2.0

Know when there's a new version. From this version on, Synqed checks for updates a few times a day. When a new one is out, the menu-bar icon gets a small red dot, and the menu shows "Synqed 1.x is available" with a click to download it. Settings → General → Updates has Check now and a switch to turn the automatic check off. The check only asks GitHub which version is newest; nothing about you or your phone is sent.

This is the last version you'll need to download by hand to find out about.

Also in 1.1.9, if you skipped it: Share → Synqed in Finder's Share menu, an optional send shelf on the side of your screen, copyable numbers and keypad tones in Calls.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.9

Share → Synqed in Finder. Select files in Finder, open the Share menu and pick Synqed: they go straight to your phone. macOS adds new share options switched off, so the first time, go to Settings → Files → Share menu in Finder and click Turn on. If Synqed isn't running, sharing starts it and sends once your phone connects.

A send shelf on the side of your screen. Turn on Settings → Files → Send shelf and a small tab sits on the left or right side of your screen. Hover over it, or drag files onto it, and a drawer slides out with a drop area, a Choose Files button and the send's progress. Drag its handle to move it up, down or to the other side. Handy when another notch app covers Synqed's drop target.

Copy numbers from Calls, and keypad tones. Phone numbers in the Calls list now show under contact names and can be selected and copied, or right-click a call for Copy Number. The dial pad plays a phone's keypad tones as you click or type; turn them off in Settings → Sounds.

Fixed: - The close button on the transfer notification didn't respond. It works now, and clicking the notification itself closes it (or, for a received file, shows it in Finder). - The Screen page's start and waiting screens are now centred in the window.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.8

Keep transfers out of the notch if you'd rather. Settings → Show transfers in now has a Notification option. File progress, Copy and Show in Finder appear in a card at the top right that stays until you close it. It's handy if another notch app already lives up there.

A sound for sent files, and your own volumes. When everything you sent reaches your phone, Synqed plays Mail's whoosh (or any Mac sound, or none). Arriving files, sent files and incoming calls each have their own sound and their own volume slider, separate from your Mac's volume. You can pick the ringtone for calls too.

Copy and Forward on every text message. Each message has Copy and Forward buttons beside it. Forward opens a new message with the text already in, so you only choose who it goes to. You can also select part of any message, notification or setting and copy it.

Phone screen from the menu bar. Show phone screen in the menu bar asks your phone straight away and tells you the request is waiting there. While the screen is shared, the same row stops it. If your phone doesn't answer within a few seconds, Synqed says so and tells you to update the Android app.

Tidier Settings. Settings is split into General, Clipboard, Files, Sounds and Troubleshooting, and conversations slide open and closed.

Fixed: - Turning on Hide Dock icon could make the Synqed window disappear. The icon now goes when you close the window. - If macOS refused to ask about notifications, Ask macOS did nothing. Synqed now says so and takes you to Notification settings. - The music controls in the menu bar no longer show when nothing is playing.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.7

Copy a file the moment it arrives. When a file from your phone lands, the bar in the notch now has a Copy button next to the Finder button. It puts the file on your clipboard, ready to paste into Finder, Mail, Messages or an image editor, and the bar reads Copied.

Choose the sound for arriving files. In Settings, Sound when a file arrives lets you pick any of your Mac's own sounds, keep the default, or choose None. You hear each one as you pick it.

Fixed: copying a file you'd just received, from the notification's Copy button, could send it straight back to your phone through clipboard sync. It now stays on your Mac.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.6

Send files with a keyboard shortcut. Press ⌃⌘P from any app to open the drop target in the notch. With files selected in Finder, the shortcut sends them straight to your phone instead. - Change the shortcut in Settings: click it, and a panel waits for your new keys. You can also turn it off. - Turn off Send selected Finder files in Settings if you'd rather the shortcut always opened the drop target. - The first time you use it with Finder in front, macOS asks to let Synqed see which files are selected. That's all it reads.

A new last step in setup. Once your phone is connected, setup shows a few things to try: the shortcut, transfers in the notch, letting Claude use your phone, and copying one-time codes automatically, with the switches right there.

Smaller things: the "Sent" bar in the notch shows a checkmark. The Finder button stays on files you receive, where there's something new to find.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.5

File transfers show in the notch, both ways. When a file comes from your phone, or you send one from anywhere on the Mac, the notch opens with the file name and progress. - A soft light runs along the edge of the notch as the transfer goes, from the left, around the bottom and up the right. - Long transfers fold into a slim bar with a progress ring after a few seconds. Click the bar to open it again, or use the minimise button. - When it's done, the bar shows Saved or Sent, with a Finder button on the left and a close button on the right. It goes away on its own after a few seconds.

Copy one-time codes automatically. A new option in Settings, off by default. When a verification code arrives on your phone, in a text or a notification, it goes straight onto your Mac's clipboard so you can just paste it. It isn't sent back to the phone, clipboard managers are asked not to keep it, and it's cleared after two minutes.

A cleaner notch. The notch outline is redrawn as one smooth shape, so its curves stay crisp, with a soft white glow that lifts it off dark windows and wallpapers.

Fixed: card and button borders were cut off along the left and top edges of scrolling pages, which made them look thin and their corners shaved. They now show in full on every screen, and the last row of a list no longer draws a line through the card's rounded corners.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.4

Now with MCP: let Claude use your phone. Synqed comes with an MCP server, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop and other MCP apps on your Mac can use your Android phone through Synqed.

• Read: messages, notifications, calls, contacts, battery and signal, and files on the phone.
• Do: send a text, place a call, send a file, set the phone's clipboard, control media.
• Screen: start a screen share, read what's on screen, open apps, tap, swipe, type, take screenshots and record.

You choose how much it can do, for all apps or one app at a time: - Read only: it can look but not act. - Ask first (the default): every action waits for Allow in the menu bar or a notification. - Auto: actions go through and Synqed tells you what was done.

Texting or calling someone who isn't in your contacts, sending a one-time code, and more than three texts or calls in ten minutes always ask, even in Auto. One-time codes are withheld by default. Pause in the menu bar drops every assistant to Read only.

AI access is off until you turn it on under System → AI assistants, which also shows the setup line to copy. A screen share an assistant starts closes by itself when the assistant disconnects or goes quiet for a minute.

Also fixed: the Show phone screen button was unreadable while the window wasn't focused.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone. Reading the screen and opening apps need Synqed 1.0.6 or later on the phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.3

Works on your phone's hotspot as well as shared Wi-Fi. Setup and help now say so. On a hotspot, turn off Turn off hotspot automatically in your phone's hotspot settings, or Android switches the hotspot off while your Mac sleeps.

Screen sharing: - Cancel a request while your phone is still asking for permission. The prompt on the phone closes too. - A screenshot of your phone no longer pops up on the phone itself. It was being copied to the clipboard and synced back, which made Android show its clipboard preview.

Clipboard: anything an app marks as private, such as a password copied from a password manager, is no longer sent to your phone.

See setup again from Settings, including the code for getting the Android app. Nothing is reset.

Clearer status at a glance. The phone icon turns green while connected, and the signal bars in the menu bar are readable again.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone. Screen sharing needs Synqed 1.0.4 or later on the phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.2

See and use your phone's screen on your Mac. The new Screen page shows your phone's screen live. Your phone asks for permission each time you start.

• Control it with your mouse and keyboard: click to tap, drag to swipe, hold to long-press, scroll to scroll, and type into the field that's selected. Esc goes back, and there are Back, Home and Recent apps buttons. This works when you share the whole screen and turn on Synqed under Accessibility on the phone.
• Screenshots go to your Desktop and the clipboard. Screenshots you take on the phone while sharing come to your Mac too.
• Recordings are saved to your Desktop as MP4.
• Pop it out into its own window that keeps the phone's shape and can stay on top of other windows.

Your Mac notices straight away when your phone leaves. Turning off the phone's Wi-Fi, shutting it down or putting your Mac to sleep now updates the other side immediately, instead of after a delay. A phone that walks out of range is noticed within a few seconds while you're using the Mac.

A clearer Connection page. It shows your phone's status, battery, network and storage up top, lists each remembered phone once with its address, and keeps manual connection and diagnostics under Advanced.

Daily summaries work on busy days. The notification summary no longer gives up on a day with a lot of long messages, and when it does fall back to a count, it says why.

Smaller fixes. The incoming-call banner in the notch has a shadow so it stands out, and message timestamps have more room.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone. Screen sharing and the instant updates need Synqed 1.0.4 on the phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.1

Reconnecting is much faster, especially on a phone hotspot and after sleep.

• Synqed now tries every address it knows for your phone at the same time and uses whichever answers first. Before, one dead address could hold everything up for several seconds on every retry.
• On a phone hotspot, Synqed now also tries the hotspot itself. Android gives the hotspot a new address range each time it starts, so the address Synqed remembered was usually out of date.
• After the lid opens, Synqed no longer starts by dialling where your phone was before sleep, which used to cost about 8 seconds per attempt.
• With the latest Android app (1.0.3), your phone tells your Mac where it is as soon as its Wi-Fi or hotspot changes, so the Mac doesn't have to go looking.

Clearer connection status. The sidebar and menu bar now say what's happening in plain words ("Reconnecting…", "Your Mac is offline", "Can't find your phone · last connected 5 minutes ago") and keep your phone's name on screen while it's away.

One alert per call. A ringing call no longer produces extra "Incoming call" and missed-call notifications on top of the notch banner. The incoming-call notification clears when the call ends.

Full message text, and Copy for codes. Notifications show the whole message instead of the one-line preview. When a notification contains a one-time code, it has a Copy button for it.

Received files have buttons. The "Received from your phone" notification now has Open, Copy and Show in Finder. A file with the same name as one already in Downloads is saved alongside it instead of replacing it.

A dial pad. The Calls page has a Dial button for calling any number from your phone, not just contacts and recent calls.

Friendlier empty screens, with the stickers from synqed.studio.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone. Everything except the phone announcing itself also works with older versions of the Android app.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

What's new in 1.1.0

Reconnecting after a restart. If your phone doesn't connect after you restart your Mac, Synqed now tells you why, in the menu bar where you'll see it:

• macOS has a known bug where a granted Local Network permission silently stops working after a restart. Synqed now spots this, shows it in the menu-bar popover with a button straight to the setting, and sends one notification after a restart if your phone still can't be found. The fix is to turn Synqed off and on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network.
• If Synqed isn't set to start at login (so it isn't running after a restart), the popover now offers to turn that on.

Getting the Android app is part of setup. The setup screen that asks you to install Synqed on your phone now shows a little cherry-blossom garden that turns into a QR code: scan it with your phone's camera to open Synqed on Google Play, or click "Or open Google Play".

A more legible menu bar. The popover's text and icons now adapt to the wallpaper behind them, so they stay readable on any desktop.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

Android remains at 1.0.0.

Fixes Send files in the menu-bar popover appearing available when no phone is connected.

Choosing it with nothing connected used to open the notch drop zone anyway, and only report "Phone not connected" once a file had already been dragged onto it. It is now disabled until a phone is actually connected, with a tooltip saying why.

Messages, Calls and Notifications are unaffected — they open stored threads, call log and history, which are worth reading with your phone away.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.

Android remains at 1.0.0.

First release.

Calls, messages, notifications, clipboard and files between your Android phone and your Mac, over your own network. Pairing is a six-digit code confirmed on both devices — no account, no cloud, no relay server.

Requires macOS 14 or later, and the Synqed app on your Android phone.

Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning.