This free, open-source app lets me control my Android phone from my Windows PC

A new free, open-source workflow combines three tools—Phone Link, scrcpy, and KDE Connect—to let users control an Android phone from a Windows PC more flexibly. The article compares Microsoft’s Phone Link, which can show notifications and media and is typically preinstalled on Windows but may limit screen mirroring and app mirroring on some phones, with KDE Connect, which enables keyboard/mouse control and other features but doesn’t mirror Android displays. For mirroring, it highlights scrcpy as the reliable option. The piece introduces Sefirah, described as offering Phone Link-like polish while adding native support for scrcpy, letting users open mirrored windows from a phone icon, including multiple instances at once.