MacRemote
Control your Mac's volume, media, brightness and keyboard from your iPhone over the local network. Menu bar app in Swift + web UI.
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Details
- External ID
- 1398315320
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacRemote
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4538424649322623
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- cross-device control and hardware utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- iphone remote controller for macs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight Swift menu bar utility hosting a local HTTP/WebSocket server connected to macOS AppleScript/CoreAudio APIs and a web UI is readily vibe-codeable.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 612 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #334 of 613 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- QwikDim · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Control My Mac · ph · 2026-10-04 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ShakeNotes for Mac · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Tejora · ph · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- iMCBridge – Remote Desktop · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MoniVol · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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