A beautiful native Mac app that talks to your phone over your own Wi-Fi — and comes back on its own after a drop, with no second pairing. Texts, calls, files and notifications all land at launch. No cloud in the middle. Any Android since 2021.
Free Companion tier forever · Pro is a one-time purchase · macOS 14+, Android 12+
This keeps happening. Phone-on-your-Mac tools arrive from big-name suites, bundled OEM utilities and beloved side projects, and within a few years they are discontinued or quietly left to rot — and the Mac half is always the half that goes first. Pier exists because your Mac and your phone deserve better: one committed independent vendor and a radically public roadmap as the covenant.
An incoming text mirrors to your Mac, into the thread it belongs to. Replying from your keyboard, the full thread history and a filter by name or snippet arrive at launch. SMS. Works with any Android since 2021 — no flagship required, no brand allegiance, nothing to sideload.
Honest print: we have watched a text arrive on the Mac on real hardware, with both ends of that round trip on the same handset — so the mirror is proven and a third-party sender is not, yet. Sending from the Mac, history and the filter are at launch.
At launch, Pier’s Calls tab will show who’s ringing, the number, and your recent calls. Answer or decline there, start a call by typing a number — or a name, once you’ve granted contacts access — and take the conversation on the headset already paired to your phone, while the phone stays charging across the room. Pier never becomes your phone app.
Honest print: call audio stays on your phone, or on the headset your phone is already connected to. Pier does not play calls through your Mac's speakers. And calls are the one pillar we have not yet run end to end in the lab — it needs a second SIM-carrying handset we do not have. We will not put it in the present tense until we have.
Mount your phone as a drive in Finder, called Phone: open it, copy off it, save files up to 64 MB back to it. You mount it from Pier's menu bar with a click on Mount in Finder, over your own Wi-Fi, and the drive is Pier Pro. At launch the menu bar carries battery, signal and media, and notifications arrive as real Mac notifications you can act on. Apple-silicon native, Developer ID signed — no browser tab cosplay.
Xiaomi, OPPO, Realme, Vivo, OnePlus and Samsung all freeze background apps by default — which is why lesser tools “keep disconnecting.” Pier ships a per-brand setup that turns that off, and when the link itself drops the Mac says so: it flips to “Reconnecting,” counts, and comes back on its own with no second pairing. Switch brands next year and the promise still holds.
Plus, at launch: ring a lost phone from the Mac to find it — free, on any Android.
Pier connects your phone and Mac directly, encrypted, on your own network. No relay server and no company between your phone and your Mac. We can't read your texts — not "won't," can't. There's nowhere to read them.
Cloud relays, brand-locked suites, browser tabs, and one very good open-source project. Here is where Pier sits, in claims that are ours to make: it is a native Mac app, it runs on your own network with no relay, and it is a one-time purchase.
You will not find a tick-and-cross table on this page. Most of the crosses in one would be claims about somebody else's product that we had not checked on their own pages, and being wrong about a competitor to sell you something is not a trade we will make.
Respect where due: KDE Connect walked so we could run. It is free, open source, and works on your local network — if that is what you want, install it, and read KDE's own documentation rather than our marketing to compare it with us.
At launch, every feature is free for 14 days when you pair — no card needed. Then keep the Companion tier forever, or buy the whole phone once. At launch, 10 November 2026, both lists below are the v1.0 line-up.
Never nagged, never capped, never expires.
Yours forever · One Mac at a time, move it from Settings · 2 years of updates included, extend anytime for $19.99. Never a renewal countdown.
Any Android phone running Android 12 or later — that's 2021 hardware onward. Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, whatever's in your pocket. No flagship requirement, no brand allegiance, nothing to sideload. The Mac side wants an Apple-silicon or recent Intel Mac on macOS 14+. Pier connects to one phone at a time — that is by design. Connecting a second phone asks you to unpair the first.
Pier connects your devices directly on whatever network they share — home, office, or your phone's own hotspot. When they're apart, nothing syncs, because there is no cloud to sync through; everything catches up the moment they're back together. If you want remote access, we document a path through your own Tailscale network — your network, still nobody's servers.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. At launch Pier will show who's calling and let you answer, decline, or place calls from the keyboard — the audio stays where your phone already put it, on the phone itself or on the headset it is already connected to. Android hands call audio only to the app holding the default-dialer role, and Pier deliberately does not take that role: your own dialer and in-call screen stay yours.
The Mac app ships from this site, signed with our Apple Developer ID. The Android companion comes from Google Play. Both arrive on launch day, November 10, 2026.
Tell us your phone and what hurts most, and we'll write the day it ships. Every email we send is a build-in-public engineering note, never a nag.