Bluefy: BT Keyboard & Mouse

Bluefy turns your phone into a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for your computer. The computer pairs it like any other wireless keyboard, and nothing gets installed on it. That is the whole idea. Bluefy is a real Bluetooth HID device, not remote desktop software. No companion app on the PC, no server to run, no WiFi network to join, no account to sign into. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android TV and single board computers like the Raspberry Pi. It works at the login screen before anything has started, and in BIOS and UEFI menus, where a network app cannot exist. Reach for it when the mouse dies, when the media PC is across the room, or when the laptop is out of reach. A TRACKPAD THAT BEHAVES LIKE ONE One finger moves the cursor. Tap to click, two fingers to right click, three for middle. Hold, then move, to drag. Two fingers scroll both directions with coasting, pinch zooms, and a three finger swipe goes back or forward. A keyboard slides onto the touchpad when you need to type without leaving it. AN AIR MOUSE FOR THE FAR SIDE OF THE ROOM Hold the clutch and your gyroscope drives the cursor, so you can point at the screen from the sofa. Sensitivity is yours to set. Handsets without a gyroscope never see the mode. THE KEYS A PHONE KEYBOARD LEAVES OUT A full wireless keyboard with the desk row your phone has never had: Esc, Tab, arrows and Del. Ctrl, Win, Alt, Space and Enter stay put on every layer, so Ctrl+C is one reach. There is a symbols layer, F1 to F5, F11 and F12, and PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, Ins, Caps and PrtSc. Modifiers latch, and undo, cut, copy, paste, select all and save sit together. An echo strip shows the last five keys you sent. A PRESENTER REMOTE WITHOUT THE DONGLE Next slide, previous slide, blank screen and Esc, on a panel sized for a thumb. Bluefy pairs as a keyboard, so it drives PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides the same way a presentation clicker does. Nothing to plug in, nothing to lose in a bag. A MEDIA REMOTE FOR THE ROOM Play and pause, next and previous track, volume and mute, and keys that open the browser, the file manager or a terminal. Volume steps the way the keys on a real keyboard step; the computer keeps the level. BUILD YOUR OWN PANEL Lay out a control surface on a twelve column grid. Drag widgets in, resize them, and the editor refuses anything that would collide. Nine kinds: trackpad, click, scroll, d-pad, action key, volume, text macro, modifier and zoom. Three presets to start from, Media Remote, Presenter and a video editing deck. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no cloud, no sync. Your layouts and settings live on the phone and nowhere else. Nothing you type or click is sent anywhere: keystrokes go over Bluetooth to your computer and stop there. Bluefy uses the network for two ordinary things, crash reports and anonymous usage statistics through Google Firebase, and a check for a newer version. On Android 12 and newer it asks for no location permission at all. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL PRO Every control that sends to a computer works free, and so does one custom layout of your own on top of the three presets. Pro adds unlimited layouts and the Macro, Modifier and Zoom widgets. One payment or a monthly plan, and Google Play shows you the price in your own currency before you decide. WHAT YOU NEED Android 7.0 or newer, and a computer willing to accept a new keyboard pairing. Most are. Some work machines block unknown HID devices by policy, and no app can change that. Open the add a device panel on the computer and Bluefy is in the list, or pair from inside the app. After that it reconnects on its own. Text macros send US layout scan codes, so a character with no US key is skipped rather than sent wrong. Five languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish and Hindi, with full right to left layout. Pair it once. From then on, it is just a keyboard.