Peering Your Mac, from anywhere.
Pair the two once, on your own network. After that they find each other wherever you are, over a connection only they hold the keys to.
See how it works
Pair once. Then it is just there.
Three steps the first time, and one step every time after that.
-
1
Pair on your own network
Open Peering on the Mac, then pick it from Nearby on the iPhone. Both screens show the same six digits.
Confirm them, and the two devices remember each other's keys.
-
2
Choose what to share
A whole display, one running app, or a single window. The list is live, including apps you have not opened yet.
Switch between them whenever you like, without dropping the connection.
-
3
Leave the house
After pairing, the two devices find each other from anywhere, and the picture goes straight between them when the network allows.
Lock your phone and the session survives.
What it does
All of it, listed rather than summarised. Neither end needs an account.
Encrypted, device to device
Each device makes its own key and keeps it in its own Keychain. There is no account and nothing stored on a server.
Locked behind your face
Ask for Face ID every time the app comes back, and a locked phone is the only thing that unlocks the Mac.
An SSH server can carry its own lock too, with a passcode of your own.
Your Macs, named how you like
Rename a Mac to something you recognise, or forget one you are done with, from the row itself.
The list is the pairing. A Mac in it is one the phone can reach; one you forget is one it cannot.
Every Mac you own
Pair every Mac you own, on any plan, and they all live in the same list.
More than one at once
Hold several open together, so moving between two machines is a tap rather than a reconnect.
Come back from anywhere
After pairing, your two devices find each other when one of them is on another network.
Straight between the two
When your networks allow it, the picture takes a path the two devices find for themselves.
Only the control connection goes through the relay.
See which way it went
No guessing about which path you got: the session screen says LAN, RELAY or DIRECT·P2P.
The info panel shows the round trip of the lane the picture is on, counted apart from the control connection.
Says so when the network goes
Change network mid-session and the connection does not fail, it goes quiet: a screen left looking alive while nothing moves.
Peering counts that quiet and ends the session after ten seconds, so you are told rather than left guessing.
You actually drive it
Pointer, keyboard, joystick, scroll wheel and macros. Control & zoom puts your fingers on the Mac.
Observe, or take over
Control mode sends your touches to the Mac. Observe mode shows the screen and sends nothing at all, for when you only want to watch something run.
Zoom, fit, or fill
Pinch to zoom in on a toolbar, or let the Mac's screen fill the phone's and keep the edges you care about in view.
A screen, an app, or one window
Every display the Mac is attached to, one running app, or a single window. Share any of them, and switch between them without reconnecting.
Open an app you forgot to launch
The list is live and includes applications that are installed but not running. Tap one and the Mac opens it, then it is a source like any other.
A picture that gives way rather than stalls
The bitrate follows what the connection can actually carry, stepping down when latency rises and back up when it settles.
Pin it yourself to Low, Medium or High if you would rather decide.
The sharpest picture over the relay
On your own network the picture is uncapped on every plan, and every plan adapts to the network.
What Pro changes is the ceiling on a relayed session: how far the rate may climb while the bytes are being carried.
Sound from the Mac
Whatever the Mac is playing comes out of the phone, so you hear what the machine is doing rather than watching it do it silently.
One switch in the session panel, and turning it off leaves the stream alone.
Save what you are looking at
Take a screenshot of the session and hand it to the share sheet, without a trip through the Photos app first.
Every desktop you have
All of your Spaces, each one shown as a picture rather than a list of names.
Keeps going when you leave
Picture in Picture over your other apps, so the Mac's screen stays with you outside the app. The Live Activity on the Lock Screen and the widget on the Home Screen are on every plan.
Your servers, too
Add a host over SSH and it sits beside your Macs. Its keys are checked the first time, and it can carry its own lock.
Free on every plan.
A real shell
Full-screen terminal sessions with a key row built for a phone: escape, control keys, arrows and word-at-a-time movement.
Named tabs keep several open at once.
Told when a shell is waiting
A shell that stops for an answer, from a password prompt to a build that has finished, puts a banner up on your phone rather than waiting for you to look. It arrives with the app closed, sent by the Mac through the relay.
Files, on either machine
Walk the folders of your Mac or of any server you have added, open a config or a script, change it and save it, make new ones and rename or delete what is listed.
Moving a file between the phone and the machine works on every plan too.
A picture opens as a picture
What a file is comes from its own bytes rather than from its name: an image is drawn as an image, and an SVG is rendered with scripts off.
Make, rename, delete
A new file or folder, a rename on any row, and a delete that says what it will take with it.
On your own Mac that goes to the Bin; on a server it is gone, and the confirmation says so.
Run what you are looking at
An executable row carries a Run button, confirmed by its name and path.
What it sends is a line typed into a shell you already have, so a script that prints something prints it where you can read it.
Every session, remembered
Each connection is filed with how long it lasted, how it was reached, how much came down the wire, and what the Mac said along the way.
One clipboard
Copy on the iPhone and paste on the Mac, or the other way round. The last twelve are kept, so what you copied a while ago is still waiting.
Several windows at once
Pick windows, apps or displays and see them together on the phone, arranged the way you want. Every tile is a live picture rather than a screenshot, and tapping one takes you into it while the whole arrangement waits behind a back control.
The Mac works harder for this one: each tile is captured separately, so the picture stays live.
Virtual displays
A virtual display is a screen the Mac does not physically have. The app asks the Mac to make one, and this phone then shows it like any other screen: somewhere else for the windows the Mac already has, named and taken away from the same list.
Every one of them is made from the app, and none is ever made on its own. Each goes when the session it was made in does.
The commands you type every time
A row of chips above the keyboard holding the commands and snippets you reach for, in every terminal. Nothing fires until you tap it.
Macros
Record a sequence once and fire it with one tap: the things you type every time you sit down at that Mac.
Saved on the phone, editable, and never sent anywhere until you run it.
Told when you are needed
A notification when a Mac is waiting on a pairing code, an SSH server is asking for a password, or a shell has stopped for an answer you have not given.
Siri and Shortcuts
Ask Siri to connect to a Mac, open a shell on one of your servers, or end what is still open, without unlocking the phone and finding the app first.
The Mac end is an app too
It sits in the menu bar and can open at login, so a restart does not quietly end your remote access.
It shows the two permissions it needs, each with a button to the right System Settings pane.
Tunnel a port to your phone
Forward any port from your Mac or a server you have added. A dev server on :3000, a local dashboard, a private API: open it in Safari on your phone as if both were on the same network.
On every plan, alongside the SSH connections that carry the tunnels.
Zoom in, still in control
Pinch to zoom into any part of the Mac's screen and your touches still land in the right place on it. A toolbar too small to tap from full view is perfectly reachable once zoomed.
Wake it, or hide it
Wake a sleeping Mac over the network before you connect, and put its screen away when you would rather nobody walking past saw it.
Stay reachable while you're out
Four switches, all off to begin with: keep this Mac awake on its own, only between chosen hours, wake it once a day, or keep it running with the lid closed.
Free on every plan, covered step by step in the pairing guide.
Encrypted end to end. The relay is not a party to it.
Your two devices hold the keys. The relay is never given them.
What the relay handles
Device identifiers, your Mac's name, technical compatibility information, the plan in use and relay usage needed to provide the connection.
When a Mac cannot reach your phone directly, it also asks the relay to wake it, using the Apple push token your phone gave it for that one request. Not stored.
It sees the address each device connects from, as any server does, and hands each of them the other's. What it can read is nothing, on either path.
What it cannot read
Video, audio, keystrokes, pointer input and clipboard text are encrypted end to end with keys the relay never receives.
What the app collects
No screen, files or keystrokes, ever. The app sends anonymous usage counts (app opens and sessions, never tied to an account) that you can switch off in Settings. No advertising, no tracking SDKs, no account to attach any of it to.
Pricing
Your own network is free and unmetered, forever. The relay is what reaches your Mac from somewhere else: Free includes 30 minutes a day, and Pro and Lifetime have no limit.
| Feature | Free $0 on your own network, for as long as you like | Pro $2.99/month Unlimited time away, the sharpest relay picture | Best value Lifetime $24.99one time Everything in Pro, paid once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the plans differ | |||
| Relay time every day | 30 minutes | unlimited | unlimited |
| The sharpest picture over the relay | Not included | Included | Included |
| Included on every plan | |||
| Macs you can pair with | every Mac you own | every Mac you own | every Mac you own |
| Sound from the Mac | Included | Included | Included |
| Picture in Picture | Included | Included | Included |
| Files that move both ways | Included | Included | Included |
| Clipboard history | Included | Included | Included |
| Told when a terminal needs you | Included | Included | Included |
| More than three agent chats at once | Included | Included | Included |
| Several shells at once, as tabs | Included | Included | Included |
| Several Macs open at once | Included | Included | Included |
| Several windows in one picture | Included | Included | Included |
| Virtual displays on the phone | Included | Included | Included |
| Macros, snippets and quick commands | Included | Included | Included |
| Every display, app and window | Included | Included | Included |
| One shell at a time | Included | Included | Included |
| SSH servers, with saved keys | Included | Included | Included |
| SSH port forwarding | Included | Included | Included |
| The file browser, with editing and running | Included | Included | Included |
| Clipboard, both directions | Included | Included | Included |
| Keyboard, pointer, trackpad and scroll wheel | Included | Included | Included |
| Observe mode | Included | Included | Included |
| Privacy mode | Included | Included | Included |
| Screenshots, widgets, Live Activity and Siri | Included | Included | Included |
| Wake on LAN, Spaces, and session history | Included | Included | Included |
| Notifications when the Mac is waiting for you | Included | Included | Included |
Prices shown are US prices. The App Store sets them per country and shows them in the app before you buy. Pro renews automatically until cancelled, and you can cancel any time in your App Store settings. Lifetime is paid once and does not renew.
Questions
Can the relay see my screen or my controls?
No. It forwards the encrypted connection between your paired devices and cannot read the video, audio, clipboard text, keystrokes or pointer input inside it.
What does the relay know about me?
Device identifiers, your Mac's name, technical compatibility information, the plan in use and relay usage needed to provide the connection. A paid connection also sends proof of the App Store purchase. No account is involved.
It also sees, as any server does, the address each device connects from, and it hands each of them the other's, so they can try to reach one another directly. And when a Mac cannot reach your phone directly, it asks the relay to wake it with a push notification, using the Apple push token your phone gave it for that one request.
Do I need an account?
No. Peering creates an identity on each device and stores it in that device's Keychain. There is nothing to sign up for and no password.
Why do the two screens show a code?
Each device creates its own key. The six digits are how you confirm that the device you are pairing with is the one in front of you. Once you confirm it, both devices remember the other's public key.
Can I transfer files?
Yes, on your Mac and on any server you add over SSH. Walk the folders, open a file, change it and save it, upload one from your phone, and save a copy down to Files.
You can also make a file or a folder, rename one, and delete one: on your own Mac that moves it to the Bin, while on a server it is gone and the confirmation says so.
What happens if my phone changes network?
The session cannot survive it: the address the Mac was sending to stops existing. The connection does not fail or close, it goes quiet, and an app that waits for an error sits on the last frame forever.
Peering counts the quiet and ends the session after ten seconds of it, so you are told. Join the new network, tap the Mac, and you are back.
Does my screen go through your servers?
Only when it has to. Your two devices try a path straight between themselves first. The relay introduces them, and carries the session when that path cannot be opened. Both are encrypted the same, and the relay reads neither.
Does it work on a network I do not control?
Yes. Once paired, your two devices find each other over the internet, so it works from a hotel, a train, or someone else's Wi-Fi.
They try a path straight between themselves first, and fall back to the relay when the network will not allow one. The local network only has to be shared for the first pairing.
Which Macs and iPhones does it work on?
Any Mac running macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. Any iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 or later, including older devices that cannot upgrade to iOS 26.
Can I reach a Mac that has gone to sleep?
Wake it over the network right before you connect. For a Mac you would rather never went to sleep in the first place, the host app has switches for that too: awake on its own, on a schedule, or awake even with the lid closed.
Can more than one iPhone connect to the same Mac?
Yes, on every plan. A Mac does not limit how many iPhones it trusts.
How do I stop a Mac being reachable, or remove a device?
Press Stop on the Mac and it stops listening, on its own network and over the relay both. To remove one iPhone without stopping the Mac for everyone else, forget it from the Devices list in the host app; forgetting one there and unpairing it from the iPhone are two separate steps, since either device can end a pairing.