Smalt for Android · Pro
Talk to your agents with the screen off
The app makes your phone your Mac's microphone and speaker. Claude Code keeps working on your Mac. Put the phone in your pocket or drive with it on the car's speakers, and keep talking.
Download for Android
Android 10 or later · needs Smalt Pro on your Mac and Tailscale on both
On a computer? Scan this with your phone.- Screen offIt keeps listening with the phone locked. A notification shows who you're with, with Mute, Hold and Disconnect.
- In the carIt talks through Bluetooth hands-free when it's connected, otherwise the loudspeaker. The phone's own echo cancellation keeps it from hearing itself.
- Between your devicesYour Mac does the listening, and Tailscale carries the sound. Nothing goes through a Smalt server.
App or browser
You don't need the app. The same code in Smalt's Settings opens in Chrome too, with nothing to install. The app is for when the screen goes off.
| The app | Chrome | |
|---|---|---|
| Install | Once, from this page | Nothing: scan the code with the camera |
| Screen off, other apps in front | Keeps listening | Keep the page open with the screen on |
| Car and headsets | Bluetooth hands-free first | Wherever Chrome plays |
| Controls | Also in the notification: Mute, Hold, Disconnect | On the page |
| Updates | It tells you, one tap | Always the Mac's version |
Set it up
- Install it. Tap Download for Android on your phone. Chrome may warn that the file can be harmful, as it does for every app that isn't from the Play Store: tap Download anyway, then open it. The first time, Android asks you to allow installing apps from Chrome.
- Turn it on on your Mac. Smalt → Settings → Assistant → Use from my phone. One button puts Smalt on your tailnet.
- Pair. In the app, tap Scan and point it at the code in that setting. Already using the page in Chrome? Its "I have the app" button hands it over.
- Start. Tap Start, allow the microphone, and talk. Type /smalt in a Claude Code session on your Mac and it's on your phone.
Updates
The app isn't in the Play Store yet. When a new version is out, it tells you on its start screen, and one tap downloads it. Every version: GitHub releases.