Alt-C

Instant clipboard sharing between PC and phone made simple

Alt-C is a lightweight yet powerful utility that turns your devices into a unified clipboard. Instead of emailing snippets to yourself or juggling chat apps just to move text around, you can copy on your computer and have it appear almost instantly on your phone’s clipboard, and vice versa.

The concept is beautifully simple: select text on your PC, hit the configurable hotkey (by default Alt+C), and the content is ready to paste on your handheld device. Copy something on your phone, press the paste hotkey on your computer, and it appears where your cursor is waiting. In everyday use, the process feels natural and fast enough that it quickly becomes part of your workflow.

One of Alt-C’s standout strengths is its smart handling of different content types. You can configure it to auto-launch links in your browser, phone numbers in the dialer, GPS coordinates in your maps app or plain text in your favorite note-taking tool. This reduces friction and makes transferred snippets immediately useful instead of merely sitting on the clipboard.

Privacy-conscious users will appreciate that text is parsed directly on the device. There is no separate account to create, although your phone must be signed in with a Google account for messaging to function.

Alt-C isn’t perfect: it’s focused purely on text, so you can’t move images or files, and both devices need an active connection. There is also no native support beyond the provided computer platforms, which may disappoint Linux users.

Still, for anyone who frequently moves links, passwords, one-time codes or notes between computer and phone, Alt-C offers a clean, reliable and highly convenient solution that rapidly feels indispensable.