AN2Linux

AN2Linux forwards notifications from an Android phone to a Linux desktop, so that messages arriving on the handset appear as desktop notifications on the computer. The Android side reads incoming notifications and sends them across the network to a companion component running on the Linux machine, where they are displayed by the desktop's own notification system. The connection between the two sides is encrypted.

Using the tool therefore requires both halves: the Android application and the receiving program on the Linux desktop, paired with each other. It relays notifications in one direction only, from phone to computer, and is not a general-purpose file synchronisation or remote-control utility.

The Linux requirement is a hard limit; there is no equivalent receiver documented here for Windows or macOS. The project is published by rootkiwi under version 3 of the GNU General Public License, in the "only" variant.