Streams your screen back
Your PC display plays live behind the controller on each phone — no competing phone-controller app does this. Window-mode capture keeps notifications and second monitors off the feed.
✨ Free while in beta · No account required
A wireless gamepad for your PC, in any phone’s browser. No app to install.
Scan a QR. Play Steam, Game Pass, or any PC game — at home or across the internet. Stream the screen back to your phone, split it between up to 8 players, and pick from 15+ controller layouts. No app on the phone. No cables. No spare controllers to hunt down.
Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · ≈ 8 MB installer · Uninstall anytime
Your PC display plays live behind the controller on each phone — no competing phone-controller app does this. Window-mode capture keeps notifications and second monitors off the feed.
Xbox, DualShock 4, Joy-Con (left, right, dual), NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Genesis, fight stick, racing wheel — plus a full custom-layout editor.
No card, no signup, no nag screens. Once your phone and PC have shaken hands, they talk to each other directly — our servers don’t see a byte of gameplay.
How it works
Download padlinq-setup.exe and run it. One click — Windows prompts for admin, the driver is set up for you.
The helper prints a link to padlinq.com/app with your PC already filled in. Hit Claim, and a session QR appears.
Point your phone’s camera at the QR. The controller loads in the browser, and Windows sees it as an Xbox pad.
Features
Scan a QR and the controller loads in your phone’s browser. iPhone and Android, no App Store, no permissions dance.
Your phone shows up as a real Xbox or DualShock 4 controller — Steam, Game Pass, emulators, every PC game just works.
Pair up to eight phones to one PC. Couch co-op for the whole room without ever buying another controller — each player picks their own layout.
A quick handshake introduces your phone to your PC; after that, the two talk directly. Phones don’t even need to be on the same WiFi.
When the helper exposes a DS4 pad, your phone’s battery and charging state are passed through as the controller’s battery — so PS-aware games and overlays read it like a real DualShock.
PadlinQ installs as a PWA. One tap launches the controller fullscreen — no Safari chrome, no accidental swipes.
Plug in a Backbone, Razer Kishi, or any Bluetooth/USB pad and the phone auto-hides the on-screen layout so the streamed game gets the full screen.
Toggle screen streaming in admin and your PC display appears live behind the on-screen controller — couch, kitchen, patio, anywhere on internet or LAN.
Pick one app instead of the whole desktop. Notifications, second monitors, and stream-snipers stay out of the picture.
Drag-and-drop region editor in admin assigns each phone a slice of the stream. One-click presets for 2-up, 3-up, and 2×2 quad layouts.
The admin panel shows what the helper is actually capturing, with each player’s region drawn on top so you can crop directly on the live feed.
Each player picks Fast, Balanced, or Fidelity from their phone — so the kid on 4G and the partner on the same WiFi each get the right tradeoff.
PadlinQ uses your GPU’s built-in video encoder (NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel) to send the stream — so latency stays low and your CPU stays free for the game.
Xbox, DualShock 4 (retro), NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Genesis, Joy-Con (left, right, or dual with Capture), fight stick, racing wheel, touchpad, on-screen keyboard, and a fully custom layout.
Default, Dark, Neon, Mono, Arcade, Glass, and High-Contrast. Pick the one that matches your game — or your aesthetic.
Switch face buttons between Xbox (ABXY), DualShock 4 (△○✕□), or Nintendo Pro (BAXY) glyphs to match the game on screen.
In-app editor for every button, stick, and trigger. Resize, reposition, recolor, and share by URL — separate canvases for landscape and portrait.
Turn the whole screen into a precision touchpad — every finger is its own touchpoint on Windows. Great for drawing apps, RTS, and kiosk games.
Your phone’s tilt and motion become DualShock gyro and accelerometer. Steam, RPCS3, Cemu, and most emulators pick it up automatically — no setup.
Tap to press. Drag for the half-presses racing and FPS games need. Same button, both behaviours, no settings menu to learn.
Racing layout uses phone tilt for the left stick. Android phones get rumble feedback on every press through the vibration API.
Shrink the layout, slide it to a corner, play one-handed on the bus. Per-phone preference, saved across sessions.
Live source preview, paired-player list, log viewer, system-tray quick access. Open it on the host PC or from any device with the helper’s URL.
Push a specific layout to one player or pin the whole session to one layout — and lock the picker so nobody “accidentally” switches to fight stick.
Match every player’s face buttons to the game’s on-screen prompts. The change pushes to every paired phone instantly.
Online by default so phones don’t need to be on the same WiFi as your PC. No internet? PadlinQ detects it and offers one-click LAN-only — your phone pairs over your local WiFi and nothing leaves your network.
Our online mode just introduces your phone to your PC. From there on, every button press and pixel of video flows directly between the two devices — your inputs, audio, and screen never pass through us.
No sign-up form, no email collection, no analytics ping by default. Opt in if you want to help us debug; otherwise PadlinQ is invisible.
Download, play, and tell us what to fix. No card, no signup, no nag screens. Uninstall takes everything with it.
Who it’s for
TV mirrored from your PC, phone in hand. No cables, no extra hardware.
Friends walk in, scan a QR, they’re player two. Skip the controller hunt.
Hotel WiFi, parents’ house, anywhere with internet — your PC is one QR away.
They use their phones or tablets, not an extra controller. Custom layouts for small hands.
NES, SNES, N64, fight stick layouts ship in the box. Built for emulator front-ends.
Capture a single game window so your second monitor and notifications stay off-stream.
Questions
Yes — free while in beta, with no account, no card, and no upsell screens. We’ll be transparent well before that ever changes.
A Windows 10/11 PC, an internet connection, and any phone with a browser. The phone does not have to be on the same WiFi as the PC.
No. Your phone just loads a webpage. iPhone users can tap "Add to Home Screen" for a fullscreen, app-like experience — still no App Store involved.
Yes. If your PC can’t reach the internet, PadlinQ detects it on startup and offers a one-click LAN-only mode. Your phone pairs over your local WiFi, nothing ever leaves your network, and you can switch back to online any time from the tray menu.
Turn it on in the admin panel and your PC screen — or just one app window — plays live behind the on-screen controller. The video goes straight from your PC to your phone, never through our servers.
Up to eight phones per PC. Each phone gets its own session code from the admin page, and you can force a layout or button skin per slot.
Today, no. PadlinQ runs on Windows 10/11 only. We’re looking to expand to other platforms in the future — no specific dates or platforms promised yet.
Either a virtual Xbox 360 pad (XInput, the default — works with every modern PC game) or a DualShock 4 (DInput, for games that expect PlayStation glyphs or read the DS4 gyro/accel and battery). The admin panel switches between them per slot.
Your phone and PC talk to each other directly, so input lag is essentially your phone’s ping to your PC. On the same WiFi you’ll typically see single-digit milliseconds — fast enough for fighting games and platformers.
One installer. No phone-side setup. No account. Uninstall anytime.
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