iMacroPad
Turn your iPad or iPhone into an app-aware Mac control deck
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iMacroPad turns the iPad or iPhone you already own into a control deck for your Mac: keys, knobs, faders, a trackpad, a trackball and a Pencil area, with haptics. Bring an app to the front and its layout appears: 81 ready layouts for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, OBS, Logic, Excel, Claude Code and more. The pad shows live state (OBS recording, Teams mic, volume) and runs macros and AI-agent approvals over your own Wi-Fi. For creators, streamers and developers. Free; Pro removes ads.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iPad
- Mac
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The iPad control UI is vibe-codeable, but the macOS companion app needs native Accessibility API integration for app detection and low-latency input, which requires Swift and OS-specific expertise.
What it would actually take: Build an iOS/iPadOS app in SwiftUI with haptics and a trackpad surface, plus a macOS helper that observes the frontmost app via NSWorkspace and sends synthetic key and mouse events via CGEvent. Communication runs over local network or Bluetooth with low latency. Accessibility permissions, event injection reliability, and the 81 hand-tuned layouts are the hard parts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 652 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #356 of 653 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- Control My Mac · ph · 2026-10-04 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Padoo Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DuoScreen · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PhoneDeck · ph · 2026-07-04 · 259 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Maxy MIDI · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- iMCBridge – Remote Desktop · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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