Many times you find yourself in a situation where you constantly have to reach for your phone while working on your computer or you are just too lazy to go to your phone to check for notifications. What if we tell you that you no longer need to carry your phone with you but instead use your PC to check your messages and notifications on your phone? Awesome, right?

In this article, we’ll share a handful of the best apps that you can use to get your Android phone’s screen on your PC and control it using your computer’s mouse and keyboard. Here are our favorite solutions for streaming your Android device’s screen to a PC.

AirDroid has been around for so long that you may have come across it before for some of its other features. And that’s kind of true, because the app is for those of you who won’t settle for anything less.

You can cast your phone’s screen to your PC, transfer files between devices, view and reply to text messages, and see other notifications on your phone. Most importantly, you don’t need an additional app on your PC to access your phone’s screen; a web browser is all you need.