Remote control, with AI, 24/7
MacOn pairs the Mac on your desk with a playful iPhone and iPad app that reaches all the way in. See and drive its screen from anywhere, wake and unlock it even when it is asleep or locked, automate it, code on it, and hand tasks to an AI that operates it for you. It runs your iOS builds too.
macOS 14+ · iPhone & iPad · free on your Wi-Fi, Pro to roam
Drag to spin · tap the machines
The companion
Pair once with a single-use code, and the app becomes a home screen for your Mac: builds, screen, apps, deck, fleet, AI, code and flows.
What it does
Six things your Mac can do from your phone. Tap through for the full story.
Hardware H.264 up to 120 fps, with full cursor, keyboard, a virtual trackpad, and CompactOS that refits a single Mac app to your phone.
A power assertion keeps it reachable, a magic packet wakes it, and a 3D padlock unlocks it. Works on the LAN, through a free tunnel, or over iCloud.
A Stream Deck in your pocket, plus visual flows you draw as clay blocks on swinging strings. Or just describe one and the AI wires it.
A file explorer, a tabbed editor that saves back, real zsh terminals, and Xcode in the loop. Fix a broken build from bed.
Chat with local models, or speak a task and watch the agent read the screen, plan, and drive the Mac, step by approved step. Web too, with Playwright.
The same Mac is a local iOS runner: watch a repo, build, test across simulators, ship to TestFlight, all on hardware you own.
One engine, three surfaces
Set it up visually, run it headless, carry it in your pocket. Anything one surface configures, the others can run.
A desktop control panel in a soft 3D clay world: screen sharing, flows, power and access, pipelines, runners and secrets, plus a menu-bar switch for everything.
macon CLIThe same runner, headless, via Homebrew. For scripts, git hooks, always-on machines and cloud EC2 Macs, with --json everywhere.
A free iPhone and iPad download that reaches all the way into the Mac: screen, deck, flows, code, AI, power and builds. Unlimited on your own Wi-Fi; Pro to reach it from anywhere.
Trust model
MacOn is built for one team on machines they own, and treats every remote power as a privilege you grant, not a default.
Single-use codes with a 15-minute life, rate-limited and verified in constant time. Every device gets its own revocable token.
Screen, control, CompactOS, flows, wake, unlock. All off until you flip them on, per capability, on the Mac itself.
Tokens, API keys and the unlock password live in the macOS Keychain, never in your repo, logs or on the phone.
Remote access rides HTTPS and WSS through Cloudflare, but the address alone is useless. Pairing codes and bearer tokens are always required.
The clay world
The Mac app and companion share a re-skinnable 3D clay world, with paint-box palettes and full model swaps previewed live in the picker. This site wears Pastel, and the hero above re-tints with your light or dark choice.
Free to run on your own network, yours to control, from the desk or the couch.