Linecast

Live over a USB cable

Your Android phone, on your PC.

Plug your phone in and its screen shows up in a window on your PC, with sound. Play phone games on a big screen, record or stream them with OBS, or just use your phone without picking it up.

Download for Windows Free · Windows 10 and 11
Video delay
20ms
Frame rate
120fps
Bitrate
200Mbps
The Linecast window while streaming: quality settings, 120 fps preset, 21 ms video delay A game on the phone, on the PC through Linecast
≈ 20 ms

Picture and sound, with very little delay

Over a cable, the picture reaches your PC in about 20 milliseconds on our test phone, at up to 120 frames a second when the phone can do it. Your graphics card decodes it, so your PC stays free for everything else. Sound plays on the PC as well.

Linecast's Stream page: what goes from the phone to the PC
no app

No app mode: nothing to tap on the phone

Linecast can capture the screen without installing anything on the phone or asking you to press "Start now" every time. Plug in, press Start, done. In this mode, teammates' voice chat from games and calls can play on your PC too.

Linecast's Video and sound page
USB device

Keyboard and mouse

Click and scroll on the phone from the video window, and type with your PC's keyboard. Device mode makes your mouse and keyboard look like real USB ones to the phone, so games that support a mouse get a proper pointer.

Linecast's Mouse and keys page
PC ⇄ phone

Copy on one, paste on the other

Copy text on your PC and paste it on your phone, or the other way round. Pictures can come along too if you switch that on. Copies that password managers mark as private stay where they were made unless you allow them.

Linecast's Settings page with the clipboard switches
OBS

Made for streaming

The video window can be captured on its own in OBS (Window Capture, "Linecast — Video"). You can keep it on top of other windows, choose the shape of the picture, and change everything from your PC before or during a stream.

A game in Linecast's video window, ready for OBS
Your PC

Free and Premium

Linecast is free to use. Premium adds the extras.

FreePremium
Phone screen and sound on your PC✓✓
Capture with the phone app✓✓
No app mode (nothing to tap on the phone)–✓
Teammates' voice on the PC–✓
Keyboard and mouse on the phone–✓
QualityPhone's 3 presets, up to 60 MbpsCustom size and frame rate, full bitrate, variable bitrate
CodecH.264H.264 and HEVC
Choose the phone's encoder–✓
Picture shapes (16:9, 4:3, 21:9 and your own)Phone's own shape✓
ClipboardTextText, pictures, passwords
Video window, sound, shortcuts, updates✓✓
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What you need

  • A Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit).
  • An Android phone running Android 11 or newer.
  • A USB cable that carries data (some cheap cables only charge).
  • USB debugging turned on in the phone's Developer options. How to turn it on

Made by Sreeraj

I'm Sreeraj, from Alappuzha, Kerala. I built Linecast because I wanted to play and stream my phone games on my PC without the lag and the hoops other tools put you through. It's a small, independent app and I answer support mail myself.