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CLUSTER PHONE-WIRELESS-ANDROID · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-09-11

Phone-as-wireless-gamepad apps

This cluster consists of Android apps that turn a smartphone into a wireless game controller or gamepad for PCs (Windows/Linux) over Wi-Fi or a local network. The dated history before the index start has fewer than 5 entries, so the cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Andromote leads on traction with 1 star, while PadConnect and Controlloid have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2018: 1APR 2019: 1JUL 2025: 1APR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2018OCT 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 · 2 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 4 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01phonepad3★18 daysliveWireless gamepad app that uses an Android phone to emulate an Xbox controller on Windows over local Wi-Fi, requiring no additional hardware.
  2. 02OmniPad1★18 days—hobbyMobile app that turns a smartphone or tablet into a virtual gamepad for PC games on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  3. 03seidr-pad0★15 days—hobbyApp that turns phones into virtual Xbox controllers over Wi-Fi so up to four players can play PC couch co-op games without controllers.
  4. 04play-together1★1 moliveMultiplayer game platform that turns phones into controllers for shared browser-screen play sessions.
  5. 05Andromote2★1 molivehobbyMobile app that turns an Android phone into a motion-tracking game controller, air mouse, and retro gamepad for PC and emulators.
  6. 06PadConnect0★1 moliveopen sourceAndroid app that connects a phone to a PC to use it as a wireless game controller for games.
  7. 07Controlloid0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that turns a phone into a wireless game controller for a PC over a local network.
  8. 08VirtualGamePad Mobile0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceAndroid app that turns a phone into a wireless gamepad for Windows and Linux PCs over Wi-Fi.
  9. 09Yoke0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that turns a phone into a wireless gamepad for Linux computers using accelerometer and thumbstick inputs.

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.