ReMoKey for iPhone & Mac
Across the room
is close enough.
Your iPhone becomes your Mac’s trackpad, keyboard and media remote. Sit back anywhere on your own Wi-Fi — every tap and keystroke lands on the Mac, device to device, with no cloud in between.
The iPhone app isn’t on the App Store yet. It’s in review. The Mac app above is ready and will update itself, but it does nothing on its own until the iPhone half arrives — so grab it now only if you’d like to be set up in advance.
How it works
Three steps, once.
Then it just works.
Step 01 — Find
It finds your Mac by itself.
Open ReMoKey with the Mac app running and your Mac appears — no addresses, no setup. iOS asks once for permission to see your local network; that is all it asks.
You can always type an address instead — which is also the answer over a VPN, or on the mesh and guest networks that quietly refuse to pass discovery traffic.
Step 02 — Confirm
Two screens. One code.
Both devices work out the same four digits independently. You read them off your iPhone, check the Mac agrees, and press Confirm on the Mac. That comparison is the entire security boundary — there is no password to choose and none to leak.
The Mac commits to its half of the exchange before your iPhone reveals its own, so nothing sitting in the middle can steer both ends to a code it picked.
Step 03 — Control
Then it’s just a trackpad.
The pad fills the phone. Four launchers float over it for arrow keys, media, desktops and the keyboard; the modifier row sits under your thumb. Pull the left edge for volume and zoom, the right edge to dictate.
The Mac asks for Accessibility the first time — macOS will not let any app move your pointer without it. Skip it and the phone still connects, but the Mac quietly ignores everything it sends.
Pair once. From then on it connects on its own.
What it does
The whole Mac,
under one thumb.
A real trackpad
Move, tap to click, double-tap, two-finger tap to right-click, two-finger scroll, and tap-and-a-half to drag. It feels like the glass came off a MacBook.
The full keyboard
⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ arm for the next keystroke, or double-tap one to lock it on. What you type resolves against the Mac’s own layout, and follows it when you switch input source.
Dictation that stays on the phone
Hold to talk, or swipe up to lock it hands-free. Recognition is on-device only — server recognition is refused outright, never quietly substituted.
Media and volume
Real media keys, and a volume bar that reads the Mac’s actual level rather than guessing at one.
Spaces and apps
Switch desktops, open Mission Control, and jump between running apps from a grid of their real icons, fetched live from the Mac.
Shortcuts you define
Build macros from modifiers and a key, and label each one with a symbol, some text, or one of your Mac’s own app icons.
It shows you what you’re typing into
The phone names the Mac app that currently has focus, with its icon — so you are never typing blind into whatever happened to be in front.
Several Macs, one phone
Pair as many as you like, rename them, and switch between them. Remove one and it forgets the phone right back.
Lock it from across the room
Lock the screen outright, or press and hold to reach Restart and Shut Down behind a confirmation.
And what it isn’t. ReMoKey sends input, not video. There is no screen mirroring and nothing to watch — you look at the Mac’s own display, the way you would with any keyboard.
Where it goes
Nowhere.
That’s the feature.
There is no ReMoKey server for your input to pass through, because there is nothing for one to do. Your keystrokes go from your iPhone to your Mac and stop.
- No account, no sign-in, no subscription. Nothing to breach.
- Encrypted, phone to Mac. The connection is authenticated by the key minted when you paired, held in your iPhone’s Keychain.
- No analytics, no telemetry. Not reduced — absent.
- One outbound request, and you can read it. Once a day the Mac app fetches its update feed — public, plain text, at updates.remokey.app. That is the only address either app ever contacts besides the other.
- Dictation never leaves the phone. If your language has no on-device model, dictation simply doesn’t run.
Read the privacy policy — it is short, because there is little to say.
Put it on both,
and forget it’s there.
The Mac app lives in the menu bar and updates itself. The iPhone app connects the moment you open it.
The iPhone app isn’t on the App Store yet. It’s in review. The Mac app above is ready and will update itself, but it does nothing on its own until the iPhone half arrives — so grab it now only if you’d like to be set up in advance.
macOS 14.0 or later · iOS 18.0 or later