There are a number of great reasons for why you may want to mirror your Android phone or tablet to your PC. Doing so would allow you to not only get a bigger screen for viewing the content on your phone, but you can use your computer's keyboard and mouse to respond to messages on mobile-only apps, navigate through your phone's files, edit photos and even enjoy some Android gaming with a keyboard instead of on a touch screen, where supported.

On the Google Play Store, plenty of paid apps can be found, that offer Android-to-Windows PC mirroring, of varying success. Most of them require you ...