LinkFlick
Stop re-pairing your Magic Keyboard between Macs
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I built this because I got sick of re-pairing my Magic Keyboard and Mouse every time I moved between my MacBook and my work MacBook — different Apple IDs, so Universal Control was never going to work for me. LinkFlick just flicks them over Bluetooth instead. Hotkey, or tell Siri "flick devices," done. Menu bar app, customizable hotkey, and it nags you before your Magic Mouse battery dies. Still rough around the edges in places, but it works, and it's mine.
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 73 upvotes (top 2%) · 1 view
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial While trigger mechanisms (Siri Shortcuts, hotkeys) and standard macOS menus are easy to build, programmatically switching paired Bluetooth accessories between macOS hosts requires lower-level IOBluetooth APIs, private frameworks, or coordinating disconnect/connect scripts across machines.
What it would actually take: A functional app would be built in Swift using the IOBluetooth framework or reverse-engineered private Bluetooth APIs to unpair/disconnect a device on machine A and initiate connection on machine B. It requires a lightweight local daemon or peer-to-peer signaling mechanism (e.g., local network WebSockets or MultipeerConnectivity) so one Mac can signal the other to grab the device. The hard part is reliably triggering reconnection of Apple Magic peripherals without physical toggles or pairing dialogs, which often relies on undocumented CoreBluetooth/IOBluetooth private calls.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #42 of 493 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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