ersinkoc/phonebox
Turn an old Android phone into a local desk panel for Windows, Linux and macOS. 55 widgets, Smart Stack, AI quotas and sessions, media controls, USB or paired Wi-Fi.
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PhoneBox Turn an old Android phone into a desk panel for your computer: Windows, Linux or macOS. Widgets for your PC, AI coding sessions, music, weather and anything you push to it. USB or Wi-Fi, no cloud. ▶ Try the live demo in your browser PhoneBox has two parts: a small Android app that runs full screen on the phone, and an agent on the computer (Windows, Linux or macOS) that feeds it over the USB cable (or over Wi-Fi / Tailscale after pairing once). You design the pages in a visual editor on the PC: 114 widgets, 30 templates, as many pages as you like. buzzes when one finishes or needs you, and Claude Code's permission prompts show up with Allow / Deny. GitHub review requests and your pull requests with CI status. pomodoro, timers, checklists, notes, a breathing exercise. when something happens (a call, music, an AI session…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- Recent highlights
- Control Deck, appearance and Podman (0.8 – 0.9)
- Android 9 and 10 (0.7.3)
- Native Antigravity quotas (0.7.2)
- Smart Stack and session details (0.7.0)
- Quick start
- Appearance
- Control Deck
- Pages & templates
- Widgets
- Layout editor & settings
- Claude Code permission prompts
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What this repository does
Turn an old Android phone into a local desk panel for Windows, Linux and macOS. 55 widgets, Smart Stack, AI quotas and sessions, media controls, USB or paired Wi-Fi.
Repository facts
- Owner
- ersinkoc
- Primary language
- C#
- Stars
- 320
- Forks
- 29
- Open issues + pull requests
- 20
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-11-07T16:45:16.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-14T12:00:01.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: android, claude-code, codex, dashboard, desk-panel, dotnet, linux, macos, old-phone, smart-stack, stream-deck, system-monitor, tailscale, webhooks, widgets, windows
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