Turn Your Phone into a PC Mouse & Keyboard

When you don't have a working mouse, PCDeck allows you to use your smartphone as a replacement in seconds: 1. Launch PCDeck on your Windows PC (press M for the emergency keyboard shortcut guide if your mouse is already broken). 2. Scan the on-screen pairing QR code with your iPhone or Android camera over local Wi-Fi. 3. Tap the link to open the zero-install web remote in your phone browser. Your smartphone screen immediately becomes a multi-touch trackpad with smooth cursor movement, left/right clicks, and scrolling. Read our full guide on how to use a PC without a mouse.

Using PCDeck on your phone touch screen: Right-Click by tapping with two fingers simultaneously anywhere on the trackpad (or tap the dedicated Right Click button). Scroll Up or Down by dragging two fingers vertically across your phone display with natural kinetic inertia. Left-Click by tapping once with one finger, and Drag & Drop by long-pressing with one finger. Learn more in our trackpad gestures guide.

Open PCDeck on your Windows computer and scan the pairing QR code with your phone. Switch to the Keyboard tab in your mobile browser or the Android companion app. You can type into any Windows text field using your phone's native touch keyboard (with voice dictation and swipe input support). PCDeck also provides access to full PC keys including Enter, Backspace, Escape, Tab, Windows Key, Alt, Control, Function keys (F1–F12), and a dedicated numeric keypad. Read our phone as keyboard guide.

PCDeck uses your local Wi-Fi network (or your phone's mobile hotspot) rather than Bluetooth. Wi-Fi offers greater wireless range across rooms, much higher bandwidth for 60 FPS real-time PC screen streaming and 48 kHz stereo audio, and lower input latency without Bluetooth pairing headaches. Simply scan the on-screen QR code to connect instantly.

Yes, PCDeck is 100% compatible with 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11. It is available as a verified Microsoft Store application with zero security warnings and as a portable standalone .exe requiring no driver installations or external runtimes.

Yes — that is the main reason people install PCDeck. It streams the desktop to your phone and accepts touch as mouse input, so a machine with a cracked, dark or disconnected monitor stays fully usable. Set it to start with Windows and the phone can connect to a PC that never shows a picture locally. No second monitor or HDMI adapter is needed. Installing it before the screen fails is easier, so it is worth having in place ahead of time.

PCDeck turns the phone into a multi-touch trackpad with left and right click, two-finger scrolling and drag, plus a full on-screen keyboard with a numpad. It covers pointer and typing well enough to finish what you were doing, needs no drivers on the PC, and works as an emergency replacement until the hardware is repaired. Windows also has built-in options that need no download at all — see how to use a PC without a mouse and how to use a PC without a keyboard.

Because the direct standalone executable is newly published, not because anything harmful was found. Direct downloads build SmartScreen reputation over time. Click More info, then Run anyway. Alternatively, install directly from the official Microsoft Store for verified, warning-free 1-click installation.

A wireless trackpad has to capture the screen, synthesise mouse and keyboard input and open a local network port. That combination looks like remote-access software to a heuristic scanner, and unsigned files get less benefit of the doubt. Those capabilities are the product working as intended. If the file is quarantined, restore it from your antivirus history and optionally exclude the PCDeck folder — after checking the checksum.

PCDeck is not on Google Play, so Android needs one-time permission to install it. Open the downloaded APK and allow “Install unknown apps” for whichever browser or file manager you used. If Play Protect says the app was not scanned, choose Install anyway. You only grant this once.

No. Everything runs on your local Wi-Fi, or on the phone's own hotspot if there is no router. There is no account, no cloud relay, no analytics and no telemetry, so screen contents and transferred files never leave your network.

The free version covers trackpad gestures, the on-screen keyboard, standard console gamepad and HUD controls, 30 FPS screen streaming, PC audio streaming and the two-way file manager. A one-time $3.99 lifetime licence raises streaming to 60/120 FPS, unlocks the custom Gaming HUD layout designer & key-mapper, and removes speed caps on local transfers. There is no subscription, and the license activates directly with your order key.

Pro unlocks inside the app you already downloaded — there is no separate Pro build to hunt for. The APK below is the full app, free features first.

Yes! PCDeck features a built-in Zero-Install Web Remote. When you launch PCDeck on your Windows PC, simply point your iPhone or iPad camera at the on-screen QR code (or navigate to your PC's local IP address in any browser). Safari or Chrome immediately opens the full touch controller with multi-touch gestures, on-screen keyboard, 60 FPS desktop streaming, PC audio receiver, and file manager — with zero app installation required.

Yes! PCDeck runs natively on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Raspberry Pi OS, and SteamOS (Steam Deck). Simply run curl -sSL https://pcdeck.vercel.app/install.sh | bash in your Linux terminal to launch it immediately with multi-touch trackpad, keyboard, and screen streaming support.

Windows 10 and Windows 11 as a standalone executable; Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, SteamOS, Raspberry Pi) via universal 1-line script or binary; Android 5.0+ natively; and iOS/iPadOS/macOS via the instant Zero-Install Web Controller.

The phone reports the touch coordinates, and PCDeck maps them onto your desktop resolution before issuing a native Windows mouse event at that point. Tapping a window, icon or button on the stream clicks that exact element.

Yes, and it is built expecting them. PCDeck watches the wireless link and reconnects on its own if it drops, renews the address if the network hands out a broken one, and resumes file transfers from where they stopped rather than starting over. Screen streaming quality can be lowered if the link is slow.