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Life & fun · August 19, 2026

Reclaim

Two machines, one monitor, one keystroke to take it back

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What it does

Two computers, one monitor. Reclaim runs on your Mac and switches the monitor between the two with one shortcut. Press it on your Mac's keyboard to send the screen to the other computer. Press it again to bring it back. You never have to see the Mac's screen to do it, and you never have to touch the monitor's buttons. Nothing is installed on the other computer. Nothing to set up either: Reclaim reads both inputs from the monitor itself. No permissions, no network, free.

Free Mac app for two machines on one monitor. When the PC wakes and steals the screen, one keystroke tells the monitor to show your Mac again. No permissions, nothing leaves your Mac.

Two machines share one monitor, and the monitor picks a side. Most monitors switch input automatically to whichever machine has just started sending a picture, which is why a PC waking from sleep takes the screen the moment you nudge its mouse. A Mac never produces that event, because it is already awake and sending continuously, so it has nothing to take the screen back with. The result is an unfair fight: the other machine can steal the monitor and yours cannot answer. Reclaim gives it an answer. Press one keystroke, from wherever you are, and your Mac asks the monitor directly, over the video cable, to select its input. The whole thing lives on the Mac. Nothing is installed on the other…from appsbymo.app

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