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PhoneDeck

Turn your iPhone into a free Mac controller

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You already own a StreamDeck. It's your iPhone. PhoneDeck turns your iPhone into a fully customizable Mac controller, media controls, app launcher, custom buttons, all on your phone's screen. No hardware. No subscription. Free. Built by a solo developer in 7 days because I needed it myself. Works out of the box. No setup headaches. Download Now: Phonedeck.io

PH · launched Jul 4, 2026 · 259 upvotes (top 52%) · 1 view

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

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Hardware & robotics
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Productivity

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Could you build this?

Yes The developer built it in 7 days; standard iOS/macOS apps communicating over local network via Apple's built-in MultipeerConnectivity framework or WebSockets are easily scaffolded with AI assistance.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 457 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #223 of 458 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 207 days after the earliest competitor.

  • OldPhoneDeck · github · 2026-10-17 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • MiniDeck · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Control My Mac · ph · 2026-10-04 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • AirDeck · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • iMacroPad · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • SofaDeck · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • RyperDeck · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51

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