DuoBook
Turn your iPhone into a laptop for your Mac
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DuoBook turns your iPhone into a MacBook for your Mac: your Mac's screen, live, above a full Mac keyboard and trackpad that control it. On Apple's iPhone Duo it folds like a laptop, and the outside screen becomes a lid you design. Free, no account, encrypted end to end.
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PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%)
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Remote Work
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Partial The companion iPhone and Mac apps and the UI are buildable, but low-latency screen streaming and remote keyboard/trackpad control across Apple devices need native, performance-sensitive work that vibe coding alone handles poorly.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift apps on macOS and iOS using ScreenCaptureKit or similar capture APIs, a low-latency encrypted transport such as WebRTC or a custom UDP protocol, and input injection via Accessibility or HID APIs. The hard parts are latency tuning, reliable video encoding and decoding on both devices, and the end-to-end encryption design, which call for experienced macOS/iOS systems engineers and access to Apple's Duo hardware for testing.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #462 of 814 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
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