Remotype
Your phone: keyboard, trackpad & presenter for any computer
This is 1 of 125 launches in device connectivity and system utilities — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
178 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1266226
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Remotype
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8004366812227074
- Tags
- Android, Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Remotype turns your iPhone or Android phone into a real keyboard, trackpad, presenter remote and second screen for Mac, Windows and Linux. Keyboard & trackpad are free forever. Pair once with a code, everything is encrypted, and the computer app is open source.
Enrichment
- Theme
- device connectivity and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- smartphone controller app for computer peripherals
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic web/websocket controller is easy, but low-latency cross-platform virtual HID drivers and virtual display drivers for screen mirroring require native OS-level programming.
What it would actually take: The mobile app (React Native/Flutter or Swift/Kotlin) communicates over low-latency local WebRTC/WebSockets with a daemon written in Rust, C++, or Go on the host machine. The hard part is implementing virtual HID input injection and virtual display drivers across macOS (CoreGraphics / virtual display private APIs), Windows (IddCx indirect display driver architecture), and Linux (evdev/Wayland virtual outputs) with sub-15ms input lag and smooth 60fps streaming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- Remote Magic Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- desktop-remote · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- PC Controller · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Padoo Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PhoneDeck · ph · 2026-07-04 · 259 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Remote Terminal · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- phone mouse · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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