Your Mac.
In your pocket.
Control your Mac from your iPhone: trackpad, keyboard, live screen mirroring, Mac audio, and a VR mode you look around by moving your phone. Encrypted over your local network.
VR Mode
A personal theater for your Mac.
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Live link quality
Wi-Fi or Internet, latency color-coded in real time.
Camera joystick
Push to glide the view. The farther, the faster.
The goggles button
Enter or leave VR anytime.
App switcher
Jump straight to any open Mac app.
Trackpads toggle
Tap to raise the corner thumb pads.
Camera clutch
Hold to look around, release to freeze the view.
Joystick toggle
Show or stow the thumbstick.
Thumb trackpads
Cursor, click, and scroll from the corners.
Your Mac, pinned in space
H.264 mirror, boosted to a higher-quality stream in VR.
Features
Invisible control.
Dark, calm surfaces that stay out of the way. The Mac being controlled is the hero, not the app. Try the cards.
Precision trackpad
Cursor-level accuracy with momentum scrolling, gestures, and click-and-drag.
Live screen mirroring
Hardware-accelerated H.264 with adaptive bitrate that rides your Wi-Fi.
Full keyboard
Every key your Mac has: modifiers, function row, media keys.
Mac audio, in sync
System audio streams alongside the picture, so video on the Mac is video on your phone.
Keyboard shortcuts, yours
Compose any combo on a full MacBook keyboard, even modifier-only ones like just ⇧, and fire it from a chip. Your favorites ride along in VR mode.
keyTap ⌘⇥ · App Switcher → Mac
App switcher
Flick through the apps running on your Mac and bring one to the front, or search and launch anything, straight from your phone.
Finder → front
Paired. Encrypted. Local-only.
One QR scan pins your Mac's TLS certificate to your phone. Every message is HMAC-signed and replay-protected. Nothing leaves your Wi-Fi.
fp=3A:9F:C2:71 · _macremote._tcp · :52731
Remote Mac Relay
One tiny helper on the Mac.
Remote Mac Relay is the tiny menu-bar app your iPhone talks to. Install once, pair once, and it just works.
iPhone
Remote Mac app
Your Mac
Remote Mac Relay · menu bar
Encrypted over your local network. Nothing leaves your Wi-Fi.
Signed. Notarized. Verifiable.
Local-only by design
Listens on your network only. No cloud, no telemetry, no outbound connections.
Pinned TLS + HMAC
The QR scan pins the certificate; every message is signed and replay-protected.
Verify every download
Check the Developer ID signature, Apple notarization, and checksum right in Terminal.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What Remote Mac does, what it needs, and where your data goes (which is nowhere).
What is Remote Mac?
Remote Mac turns your iPhone into a complete remote for your Mac. You get a precision trackpad, the full Mac keyboard with media keys, live screen mirroring with Mac audio, and a VR mode that puts your Mac screen on a curved virtual display. Everything runs over your own Wi-Fi network.
How do I control my Mac from my iPhone?
Install the free Remote Mac Relay helper on your Mac, open the Remote Mac app on your iPhone, and scan the pairing QR code once. Your iPhone then finds the Mac automatically over Bonjour every time you open the app. There is no account to create and nothing to configure.
Do I need to install anything on my Mac?
Yes, a small menu bar app called Remote Mac Relay. It is signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without security warnings. It has no Dock icon and no account.
Does Remote Mac work over the internet or only local Wi-Fi?
Your iPhone and your Mac talk directly to each other on the same local network. The connection never leaves your Wi-Fi, there is no cloud relay for your screen or input, and no telemetry is collected.
Is Remote Mac secure?
Every session is encrypted with TLS 1.3. Scanning the pairing QR code pins your Mac's exact certificate fingerprint to your phone, so no other device can impersonate it, and every message is HMAC-signed and replay-protected. The helper listens on your local network only and makes no outbound connections.
What is VR mode, and do I need a headset?
No headset needed. VR mode wraps your mirrored Mac screen onto a curved virtual display you can zoom into, like a personal theater. Hold the gyro clutch and move your phone to look around, or push the on-screen joystick to glide the view. It is motion-tracked rather than stereoscopic, so your iPhone is all it takes.
Can I use my iPhone as a trackpad and keyboard for my Mac?
Yes. The trackpad supports pointer movement, tap and drag, two-finger scrolling and secondary click, and the keyboard sends every key a Mac has, including modifiers, the function row, and media keys such as play, pause, and volume.
What are the system requirements?
iOS 17 or later on the iPhone, macOS 14 or later on the Mac, and both devices on the same Wi-Fi network.
Is there an Android version?
Android is coming soon. The Remote Mac app for Android phones and tablets is in development and will connect to the same Remote Mac Relay helper on your Mac.
How much does Remote Mac cost?
Remote Mac is free on the App Store, and the Remote Mac Relay helper for your Mac is also free. Everything on your home network is included. Remote Mac Premium, an optional subscription or one-time purchase, adds internet access from anywhere and higher mirror quality, with 30 free minutes of internet time to try it.