ATA-GUI

ATA-GUI

Android, under control.

ATA-GUI puts adb, fastboot, sideload, logcat and screen mirroring behind one calm desktop window. Remove the apps you never asked for, flash a boot image with progress you can actually read, watch the device log live, or drop into a real shell without memorising a single command.

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The idea

The 3.x app was a WinForms tool that did a lot and froze while doing it. This is the same tool rebuilt on Tauri 2 + Rust + React: same workflows, none of the blocking. Every adb and fastboot call runs off the UI thread with a watchdog and a cancel button, the window is a native binary around the system webview (2.4 MB installer), and the whole thing ships for Windows, Linux and macOS from one codebase.

No account. No telemetry. No bundled SDK you did not ask for: Platform Tools and scrcpy are downloaded on first use and live beside the app.

What you get

Apps, without the command line

The APK manager lists every installed package with search, bulk selection, install-from-file, uninstall, disable and restore. Split bundles install as one, a drag-and-drop zone takes APKs straight from Explorer, and the bloatware list from the Universal Android Debloater marks what is safe to remove. No root, no package names to copy.

Flashing you can watch

Queue boot, recovery, vbmeta or a whole set of partitions, pick a slot, and flash. The panel follows the tool it is driving (sending, writing, done), with the transfer size, elapsed time and raw fastboot output, line by line. Sideload an OTA from recovery with a real progress bar, or pull a partition image off the device and keep the .img. Cancel works mid-flight; the child process dies with it.

Logs, and a terminal that behaves like one

A dedicated log window streams logcat and getevent, batches thousands of lines a second without janking the UI, filters by level and saves to a file. The terminal is a full-height shell surface with a real prompt, scrollback, ↑/↓ history, Tab completion for adb/fastboot verbs and Ctrl+C that stops the running command instead of the window.

Wireless ADB, including QR pairing

Android 11+ can pair without typing a code. ADB over network → QR renders the official WIFI:T:ADB;S:<service>;P:<password>;; payload; scan it with Pair device with QR code, and the app discovers the new endpoint over mDNS, pairs, connects and refreshes the device list. Manual ip:port connect, adb tcpip, IP history and readable failure hints are all there too.

The rest of the bench

• Device info in system and fastboot modes, per user, with a multi-device selector.
• Permissions: inspect, grant and revoke runtime permissions; set default app roles.
• Screen and camera mirroring through scrcpy, with encoder discovery and a visible download.
• Bootloader tools: unlock, lock, OEM device-info and the current state of the unit.
• Task manager: what is running, and one click to stop it.
• Eight languages (English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese), switchable at runtime; drop a JSON file in locales/ to add your own.
• Dark, light or system theme, applied before the first paint and mirrored onto the native window and every detached window.
• Portable build: config.json, locales and downloads live next to the executable, so the whole thing travels on a USB stick.

Built to stay out of the way

Nothing blocks the UI	every adb/fastboot call is spawned off the main thread
Every long job is cancellable	installs, pushes, flashing and extractions run through a guarded wrapper with a watchdog, drained pipes and a process-tree kill
One row per phone	the same device seen over cable, ip:port and mDNS is collapsed by ro.serialno
It remembers its window	size, position and maximised state, clamped to the 1040×720 minimum
One instance, no consoles	a second launch focuses the running window; no console flashes for child tools
Strict CSP	the webview only loads bundled assets

Install

Platform	Recommended	Also provided
Windows 10/11 x64	ATA-GUI_<version>_x64-setup.exe (per-user NSIS)	.msi, portable .zip
Linux x64	.AppImage or .deb	.rpm, portable .tar.gz / .zip
macOS 11+ (Apple silicon)	.dmg	portable .zip containing ATA-GUI.app

Downloads are on the releases page. Portable builds are self-contained; the Windows .zip keeps ATA-GUI.exe at its root so the 3.x in-place updater still works.

Platform notes, the portable layout, macOS quarantine and the 3.x upgrade path: docs/INSTALL.md.

Build from source

Node 22+, Rust 1.80+ and the platform toolchain (MSVC on Windows, GTK/WebKit on Linux).

npm ci
npm run desktop:dev      # Tauri window with hot reload
npm run build            # type-check + bundle the frontend
npx tauri build          # app + installers
npm run package          # release/: portable archive + installers, in publish order
npm run check:locales    # catalogue parity, duplicates and dead keys

Prerequisites per platform, the test suite and CI: docs/BUILD.md.

Documentation

Document	Contents
docs/FEATURES.md	the full tour: every panel, behaviour and shortcut
docs/INSTALL.md	bundles, portable config, macOS, upgrading from 3.x, updates
docs/BUILD.md	prerequisites, development loop, tests, packaging
docs/RELEASING.md	versioning, tag workflow, the release asset contract
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md	source tree, process layer, conventions
docs/TRANSLATIONS.md	adding or overriding a language
docs/PORTING.md	mapping from the WinForms forms
CHANGELOG.md	release notes

The 3.x C# sources are on the legacy branch; main is the Tauri rewrite.

Credits

Massimiliano Sartore · icons by Tabler Icons (MIT) · debloat list by the Universal Android Debloater Alliance · screen mirroring by scrcpy · powered by SDK Platform Tools.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.