Holdwire: Remote Desktop & SSH

See and control your own Mac, Windows PC and Linux computers from your Android phone, with the screen and a terminal side by side. Holdwire is a remote desktop and an SSH client in one: it uses the SSH login you already have, so there is no screen-sharing server to set up and no port to open on your router.

YOUR COMPUTERS
- Mac: uses the Screen Sharing built into macOS. Turn on Remote Login and Screen Sharing once.
- Windows 10 and 11: needs OpenSSH Server. Holdwire adds its own small screen helper with one tap.
- Linux: desktops and servers. Holdwire adds its screen helper with one tap. A computer without a desktop gets a private desktop that exists only while you look at it.
- Touch and trackpad modes, a key bar with Ctrl, Alt, Cmd or Win and Shift, and the clipboard in both directions.
- The person at the computer is told that its screen is being viewed. Use Holdwire only with computers you own or may access.

SCREEN AND TERMINAL TOGETHER
Open the terminal beside the screen and drag the divider, or put a web page or your notes in either pane. Terminal sessions run on the computer, so they keep going when you lock your phone, switch networks or close the app, and missed output is replayed. A session ends if the computer restarts, the helper is stopped or you close the session. Hosts without the helper use plain SSH and are labelled that way.

AWAY FROM HOME
- Reach from anywhere (Pro): the computer keeps one outgoing link to Holdwire's relay and your phone connects through it. Nothing changes on your router. Your SSH connection stays encrypted from phone to computer, and the relay cannot read it.
- Wake-on-LAN: wake a sleeping computer from your home Wi-Fi, or through another of your computers that is always on.

MORE
- Add a computer by address, pick one found on your Wi-Fi, or scan the code that "holdwire pair" shows on it.
- Send files and photos to the computer's Downloads folder.
- Approve your AI coding agent: when an agent in your terminal asks for permission, Approve or Deny from the notification. Holdwire only answers the prompt that is waiting. One list shows every agent on your computers.
- Desk: a web page served on your computer's localhost next to your notes.
- 12 colour themes and a colour per computer, so you always know when you are on production.
- SFTP files, also in Android's Files app. Port forwarding, jump hosts, snippets and a command palette.
- Keys in Android Keystore (in the StrongBox chip when your phone has one). Lock Holdwire with your fingerprint or screen lock.
- Widgets and a Quick Settings tile for your running sessions.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- No account, no analytics, no ads. Your screen and terminal go straight between your phone and your computer, or through the relay as encrypted bytes it cannot read.
- Keys and passwords stay on this phone and are never sent to us.

HOLDWIRE PRO
Free includes the terminal on all your computers and servers, the screen of one computer with every screen tool, files, port forwarding, agent approvals, and sessions kept running on one computer.
Pro adds the screens of all your computers, Reach from anywhere and sessions kept running on every computer.
Pro is a monthly subscription with a 1-month free trial for new subscribers, or a yearly subscription; both renew automatically until you cancel. Manage or cancel them in Google Play.

From Jiji Labs.
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