Life & fun · September 2, 2026
TouchNow
Control or play your Mac from iPhone. Free on your Wi-Fi.
What it does
TouchNow streams your Mac to an iPhone or iPad and lets you control it by touch — or play Mac games with an on-screen controller that maps to keyboard input, so games that only expect WASD just work. Apple-only by design: native Swift on both ends, no cross-platform layer. That's why it's fast, and why it fits macOS's privacy model. Free forever on your own Wi-Fi — no account, no router setup. Remote access is US$2.99/mo. Unlike Sidecar, it works with iPhone, and across networks.
Turn your iPhone or iPad into a touchscreen, game controller and second display for your Mac. 8 ms LAN RTT, 1080p60. Free forever on the same Wi-Fi.
TouchNow turns your iPhone into an extended display, game controller and touchscreen for your Mac — ultra-low-latency streaming and fully customizable virtual buttons, so you can play Mac games and drive your entire Mac from the couch. Free forever on your local network. End-to-end encrypted. No account. On the same Wi-Fi, your screen never leaves home. Virtual sticks and buttons map straight to keyboard input. A 50 ms heartbeat keeps keys alive so they never stick — and a physical controller takes over the moment you plug one in. Your whole screen becomes a precision trackpad: drag to move, tap to click, two-finger scroll — with a built-in cursor magnifier that shows you every pixel. Tap…from touchmac.app
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