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CLUSTER KEYBOARD-MOBILE-USB · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-09-28

Phone-as-Input Device Emulators

This cluster consists of apps that repurpose a smartphone as an external input device for a computer—emulating keyboards, trackpads, mice, or specialized HID devices over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB. The dated history before index start shows six entries spread intermittently from September 2018 to March 2026, with the last pre-index month having two. Traction leaders are uinput-touchpad, Bluetooth QR & Barcode to PC, and Authorizer, though all show zero stars, indicating minimal community uptake.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2016: 1SEP 2018: 1JUN 2021: 1APR 2024: 1MAR 2026: 2SEP 2026: 1
DEC 2016SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 commercial · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01voice-keyboard1★28 days—hobbyDesktop app that turns a phone into a remote keyboard, letting typed or voice input on the phone be inserted at the computer's cursor.
  2. 02Barcode to PC: Wi-Fi scanner0★25 dayslivecommercialUtility app that turns a smartphone into a wireless barcode scanner for computers, sending scans as keystrokes and exporting to CSV.
  3. 03Bluetooth QR & Barcode to PC0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile scanner that sends QR or barcode contents as keystrokes to a computer via Bluetooth HID keyboard.
  4. 04Authorizer0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app that turns an old smartphone into a USB keyboard emulator to automatically type stored passwords onto a connected computer.
  5. 05USB Gadget Tool0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile utility that configures a rooted Android phone to emulate USB devices such as a keyboard, mouse, security key, or camera for connected hosts.
  6. 06TapDucky0★5 moliveopen sourceMobile app that turns a rooted device into a programmable USB keyboard, importing and scheduling keystroke-injection scripts for security testing.
  7. 07Android Virtual Pen0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAn application that captures pen input from an Android device and emulates it as a low-latency pen input on a Linux computer.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.