How it works
AuraDesk is built around a simple idea: on a phone, you should work in one window at a time, at a size you can actually read. Everything else follows from that.
Install AuraDesk on your computer and on your phone. The desktop app shows a QR code; your phone scans it; the desktop asks you to approve the pairing, by name, before anything connects. From then on, opening the app on your phone reaches your computer whenever it is on and AuraDesk is running. Nothing to type, nothing to configure, nobody paired without you seeing it happen.
Your open programs appear in a tab strip at the top of your phone, each with its own thumbnail, the way tabs work in a mobile browser, including windows tucked away in the background. Buttons along the bottom let you see everything that is running, jump to the programs you keep pinned for quick launch, or start a new program from the full list of what is installed.
The window you pick is centred and sized to your phone, in your choice of three sizes. Pinch to zoom in on the detail. The scroll control in the middle of the bottom bar scrolls the document when you are reading one, and moves your view across the window when you are zoomed in or the window cannot be reshaped, in which case AuraDesk tells you so plainly. Need two windows at once? Put one above the other and work in both. Type with your phone keyboard, use modifier keys that stay held while you tap, and rotate freely: the layout follows you.
Close the app, lose your signal, run out of battery: however a session ends, your desktop returns to exactly the state you left it in, every window back in its place and size. A window you opened during the session is tucked away minimised, not left lying around. The next person to sit down at your computer finds it precisely as you left it.
Sound
The sound from your computer plays on your phone, so a video, a call, or a notification chime is part of the session, not left behind on an empty desk.
Clipboard
Copy text on your phone and paste it into the document on your computer, or the other way around. When something sensitive asks to cross over, AuraDesk asks first.
Prompts
When your computer asks an important question, a permission prompt or a security dialog, AuraDesk brings that question to the front and lets you answer it, then returns you to your work.
And if you ever want the whole desktop? It is there as a fallback: the full desktop view, the way traditional remote access works, one tap away. AuraDesk simply refuses to make it the only option.
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