# Apperture: Remote Desktop Apps

> Big apps on small screens

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6766278792](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6766278792)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6766278792`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LAND MK 1
- **Category:** Developer Tools
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01
- **First published:** 2026-06-18
- **Size:** 11 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apperture-remote-desktop-apps/id6766278792)
- **Website:** [https://runapperture.com](https://runapperture.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://runapperture.com/privacy/](https://runapperture.com/privacy/)

## Description

Apperture lets you see and control one Mac app right from your iPhone — not your whole desktop. Apperture mirrors just the app that matters, full-screen on your phone, so it feels like the app is running in your hand.

Traditional screen sharing puts a 27-inch desktop on a 6-inch screen and makes you pan, zoom, and hunt for windows. Apperture takes the opposite approach: pick a single running Mac app and it fills your iPhone with a sharp,
low-latency live view sized for the screen you're actually holding.

BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS
• Mirror the iOS Simulator and it feels native: touches map directly, and rotating your phone rotates the simulated app.
• Keep working while your Mac builds and runs. Perfect for agent-assisted coding — let Claude Code or your favorite agent build and launch the app on your Mac, then review and interact with the result from anywhere in the
house.
• Stream any Xcode-launched Mac app with its real window chrome intact.

FULL CONTROL, NOT JUST A VIEW
• Tap, drag, long-press for right-click, two-finger scroll — touch input translated naturally to the Mac.
• Type with the iPhone keyboard, including full Unicode text entry.
• Browse and run the Mac app's real menu bar commands from a searchable, touch-friendly palette.
• Send clipboard text securely between devices.
• Fit-width, fit-height, and readable-zoom layout modes in portrait and landscape.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No accounts. No cloud relay. Your screen never touches our servers.
• Pairing starts with a short-lived QR code on your Mac, and the Mac owner must explicitly approve every phone.
• Connections work only over private networks — your Wi-Fi or your own VPN such as Tailscale. Public endpoints are rejected by design.
• Every session is encrypted. Pairing trust is stored in the device Keychain and never synced to the cloud.
• Review or revoke paired devices anytime. The Mac keeps a local 30-day session history — device, time, and app names only, never keystrokes or screen contents.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Apperture requires the free companion Mac app from runapperture.com. It's notarized by Apple and distributed directly because it uses Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions the Mac App Store doesn't allow.
• Away from home, you'll need a VPN to reach your Mac — Tailscale takes about five minutes to set up, works beautifully, and is free for personal use.
• Your Mac does all the work, so it needs to be on, awake, and logged in. Apperture is a viewer and controller for your own Mac, not a way to run Mac apps on iPhone.
• Apperture streams one selected window at a time — that focus is the point.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Rankings

- #1,800,602 — Overall
- #16 — desktop

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