# Sofa - macOS and Linux Remote

> Mac and Linux Remote Control

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481853328](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1481853328)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1481853328`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Flavio Tordini
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 3.30 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-05
- **First published:** 2020-03-21
- **Size:** 27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sofa-macos-and-linux-remote/id1481853328)
- **Website:** [https://flavio.tordini.org/sofa](https://flavio.tordini.org/sofa)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://flavio.tordini.org/privacy](https://flavio.tordini.org/privacy)

## Description

Control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad with Sofa's simple and effective user interface.

- Launch apps, quit, minimise, go fullscreen
- Open files on your Mac or your Linux box with the default or another associated app
- Navigate through lists, press buttons and edit text
- Access menu commands
- Hand-crafted controls for the most popular apps and websites
- Adjust volume and display brightness
- Lock the screen, put to sleep, restart and shutdown your computer

All this while in couch-potato mode or doing a presentation.

Sofa supports interaction with the most popular applications and websites:
- Apple apps: Music, TV, Books, Photos, Preview, Photo Booth, Finder, ...
- Chrome, Safari, Firefox, VLC, MPV, IINA, Skype, ...
- YouTube, YouTube Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more!

In order to connect, you need the free Sofa Server running on your Mac. Get it at http://tordini.org/sofa

## Rankings

- #582,144 — Overall

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