CouchWand: Remote Mouse & Keys

Control your Mac or Windows PC from the couch. CouchWand turns your iPhone or iPad into a multi-touch trackpad, a full keyboard with dictation, and a gamepad. Free to use, no account to create, and your controls travel encrypted, straight from your phone to your computer. Perfect for a computer hooked up to the TV, a presentation, or just not getting up.

TRACKPAD THAT FEELS LIKE A LAPTOP Move, click, scroll, pinch and swipe with the same gestures you use on a laptop trackpad. Optional touch rings show where each finger is, and pointer speed is adjustable.

A KEYBOARD, PLUS THE KEYS IT LEAVES OUT Type with the iOS keyboard you already know. A swipeable shortcut bar above it adds Esc, Tab, arrows, Copy, Paste, Undo, media and volume keys, and system shortcuts that match your computer: Spotlight and Force Quit on a Mac, Task Manager and Win shortcuts on a PC.

SPLIT KEYBOARD IN LANDSCAPE Turn your phone sideways for a split thumb keyboard with the trackpad right in the middle.

TALK, IT TYPES Tap the microphone key on the iOS keyboard and speak. Your words appear on your computer as you talk, corrections included. Dictation works in portrait with the keyboard up.

GAMEPAD MODE Five on-screen layouts: Touch (sticks appear under your thumbs), Letters (A B X Y), Letters swapped, Shapes (triangle, circle, cross, square) and Arcade (d-pad plus 6 buttons). On Windows, CouchWand can appear as a virtual controller through the free ViGEmBus driver. On Mac and Windows you can also map the pad to keys and mouse in the desktop app. A Controller switch keeps the virtual controller off until you turn it on, so your computer only sees a controller when you want one.

MACROS AND THE CUSTOMIZATION STUDIO Design your own shortcut pages: custom buttons, key chords, text snippets, media keys, mouse clicks and multi-step macros with timed delays. Start from built-in presets (Developer & Terminal, Couch Media & Streaming, Creative, Video & CAD, Browser & Window Master), rearrange the top toolbar and tune the split keyboard. Separate layouts for Mac and Windows, each with the right modifier names. Explore everything for free; saving your layout is part of Remove Ads + Themes.

THEMES AND ICONS Classic is free. Remove Ads + Themes adds OLED Black (pure black), Liquid Glass (glass over deep violet with light that splits under your finger) and Holo Foil (a holographic trading-card look that shifts as you tilt your phone), plus alternate app icons.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no CouchWand server. Controls go only between your own devices over your Wi-Fi or Tailscale network, end-to-end encrypted. Pair once and CouchWand reconnects automatically.

SET UP IN 3 STEPS

1. Install the free CouchWand app on your Mac or Windows PC: couchwand.getigneous.com
2. Open CouchWand on your iPhone or iPad on the same Wi-Fi network.
3. Pair once with the 6-digit code or by scanning the QR code. Done. Want to look around first? Open the Computers list and choose "Try demo".

FREE VS REMOVE ADS + THEMES Free: trackpad, keyboard, shortcut bar, dictation, split keyboard, all five gamepad layouts and the Classic theme. The free version shows a single banner ad at the top. No pop-up or full-screen ads, ever. Remove Ads + Themes ($3.99, one-time, no subscription): removes the banner, unlocks OLED Black, Liquid Glass and Holo Foil, saves your Customization Studio layouts and macros, and adds alternate app icons. Restore Purchases is in Settings.

Works with Mac and Windows PCs. Requires the free CouchWand desktop app on the computer you want to control.

Grab your phone, sit back, and take control. Download CouchWand free.