House Call: Remote Computer

House Call puts your own computer in your hand. See your Mac's or PC's screen on your iPhone, and use your iPhone as its trackpad and keyboard, at home or away. It's simple, it looks and feels like part of iOS, and it's made for iPhone Duo.

There's nothing to install on a Mac: House Call uses the Screen Sharing built into macOS. Windows and Linux PCs work too, through a standard VNC server.

FINDS YOUR COMPUTERS • Macs with Screen Sharing turned on appear by themselves on your home network. Tap one, sign in, and you're there. • Add any Mac or PC by name or address. • Give each computer its own icon, color or emoji. The list shows each screen as you left it.

A TRACKPAD IN YOUR HAND • Drag to move the pointer and tap to click, like a Mac trackpad. • Tap with two fingers to right-click, drag with two to scroll, and tap then slide to drag. • Pinch to zoom in; the view follows the pointer. • Tracking speed, secondary click, natural scrolling and tap to drag work like your Mac's Trackpad settings. • A full keyboard with a row of Command, Option, Control, Shift, Escape, Tab and arrow keys, and Paste to send text from your iPhone.

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Fold it any way you like and House Call follows, without dropping the connection: • Open flat: the whole desktop fills the inner screen, with the tools along the side. • Half-open like a laptop: the screen stands on the upright half, with the trackpad and keyboard on the half lying flat. • Half-open like a book: the screen on one page and the trackpad on the other, or the screen across both. • Closed: the cover screen zooms in around the pointer. • Open in portrait: your computer on top, another app below. • The Computers list and Settings spread across both pages, with nothing in the crease.

SIMPLE BY DESIGN • Built with the system's own controls and Liquid Glass, so it looks and works like the rest of your iPhone. • Nothing to configure: House Call finds your Macs, picks the best way to reach each one, and reconnects by itself. • A short guide shows what your computer needs, and a demo computer lets you try it first. • Free, with optional tips. No ads and no account.

HIGH PERFORMANCE ON APPLE SILICON Turn on High Performance for a Mac with Apple silicon and it makes a display shaped to your iPhone, streamed at up to 60 frames per second in full color. Other Macs use standard Screen Sharing.

AT HOME OR AWAY • On your home network, House Call connects directly. • Away from home, it connects through Tailscale if you use it, and keeps going as your iPhone moves between Wi-Fi and cellular. • Picture in Picture keeps your computer's screen in view while you use other apps. • Copy on your computer and paste on your iPhone, and the other way around.

PRIVATE AND SECURE • Mac sessions are encrypted, with the same sign-in and encryption as Apple's Screen Sharing. House Call remembers each Mac's key, so it knows it's talking to the same Mac. • Standard VNC isn't encrypted, so House Call connects to PCs only over your local network or Tailscale. • Passwords are kept in your iPhone's Keychain. • No tracking and no analytics. Screen thumbnails stay on your iPhone.

REQUIREMENTS • Your own Mac with Screen Sharing turned on (System Settings › General › Sharing). High Performance needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later. • Or a Windows or Linux PC running a VNC server with a VNC password, such as TightVNC or UltraVNC. • To connect away from home: Tailscale on your iPhone and your computer.

Mac and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc. VNC is a trademark of RealVNC Ltd. Tailscale is a trademark of Tailscale Inc. House Call is not affiliated with RealVNC or Tailscale.