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Control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad
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See and control your Mac from your phone: live screen, tap to click, keyboard, trackpad, volume, files and widgets. Direct encrypted connection, no account, no cloud, no analytics. Free iPhone/iPad app plus a free Mac companion. Works on Wi-Fi and away from home.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: remote desktop and control software · 115 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Mac
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The iOS and macOS apps and UI are straightforward, but live low-latency screen streaming, input injection, and NAT traversal for use away from home require native system-level expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native macOS companion using ScreenCaptureKit for hardware-accelerated capture and Accessibility/CGEvent APIs for input, plus an iOS client. The hard parts are encoding and streaming video with low latency, secure peer-to-peer connectivity through NATs (STUN/TURN or relay design), and handling macOS permission and entitlement quirks. This requires experienced systems and security engineering, not just vibe coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1970 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1033 of 1971 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Control My Mac · ph · 2026-10-04 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- DuoScreen · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- iMCBridge – Remote Desktop · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Tetherly · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- AimMac · github · 2026-11-07 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Music Remote Control · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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