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Music Remote Control

Control Apple Music on your Mac from iPhone & Apple Watch

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Music Remote Control turns your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into a remote for Apple Music on your Mac Control playback, browse your Mac’s music library, playlists, and stations, search for songs outside your library, manage AirPlay speakers and volume, and favorite or suggest less for songs and more... It also adds a compact mini player and menu bar player on Mac, plus widgets and Live Activities on iOS for quick access to your music without interrupting what you're doing

PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Music
  • Apple
  • Entertainment

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Could you build this?

Yes A companion Mac helper script using AppleScript/MusicKit communicating over local WebSockets or Bonjour with an iOS/watchOS client app is well within vibe-coding capabilities.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1105 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #431 of 1106 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.

  • RemoTune · ph · 2026-10-04 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • JUT · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Nunc Sonat · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • OVO · ph · 2026-09-14 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Apple Music TUI · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Apple Sound · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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