Control My Mac
A shortcut deck for every Mac app, on your iPhone or iPad
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Details
- External ID
- 1263814
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Control My Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 62
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9647357532443107
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Inclusivity
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Control My Mac turns your iPhone or iPad into a trackpad, keyboard and shortcut deck for your Mac, built so the whole Mac works with one finger. Its Grid of shortcut buttons switches automatically to match the Mac app in front. Write long messages on your phone and send them in one go. Launch apps and switch windows. Pair with one QR scan: no account, no servers, no ads, and an encrypted direct connection. The Mac app is free.
Enrichment
- Niche
- cross-device control and hardware utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ios shortcut deck for controlling mac applications
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A companion remote app UI is simple to vibe-code, but the macOS companion daemon requires low-level macOS Accessibility APIs, active window monitoring, and reliable local network communication.
What it would actually take: Building this requires an iOS client (Swift/SwiftUI) paired via low-latency local WebSockets or Bonjour to a native macOS menu bar agent. The macOS agent must leverage Core Graphics event taps (`CGEvent`), Accessibility APIs (`AXUIElement`), and AppleScript to detect frontmost applications and synthesize key/mouse events securely without latency.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 600 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #69 of 601 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- PhoneDeck · ph · 2026-07-04 · 259 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- iMCBridge – Remote Desktop · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Padoo Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Music Remote Control · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Initials · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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