Couch Cursor

Control your Mac from bed or the couch. Trackpad, scrolling, volume, brightness and typing from your iPhone over Wi-Fi. Needs the free CouchRemote Mac app.

Turn your iPhone into a trackpad and remote for your Mac. Watch video from bed or the couch without getting up to reach your laptop.

WHAT YOU CAN DO • Move the cursor, tap to click, double-tap, right-click and drag • Scroll with two fingers, with natural momentum • Pinch to zoom the page • Play/pause, skip, and volume from one row of buttons • Brightness, fullscreen, mute, captions, and tab switching in the Controls sheet • Type on your Mac from your iPhone's keyboard, with Esc, Tab, arrows and ⌘ • Sleep timer that puts your Mac to sleep for you • Night mode and an auto-lock so the phone doesn't stay lit

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Pair once by scanning a QR code on your Mac. After that, your iPhone and Mac talk directly over your own Wi-Fi, encrypted with a key only the two of them share. There are no accounts, no servers, no ads and no tracking.

MULTIPLE MACS Pair as many Macs as you like and switch between them from the app.

REQUIRES THE FREE MAC APP CouchRemote needs the free CouchRemote Mac app, which runs in your menu bar. Download it from https://github.com/cranberryrum/couch-remote/releases (macOS 14 or later), install it, grant Accessibility access, and choose "Pair New iPhone…" to show the pairing QR code. Your iPhone and Mac must be on the same Wi-Fi network.