Your Mac,
running at your fingertips.
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.
Real app, real screens
Real screenshots, not mockups.
Streaming, gamepad, both roles — this is the actual app.
Three modes, one app
Three ways to control your Mac.
Every use you can imagine, covered.
Game mode
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. How it works →
Trackpad mode
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. How it works →
Direct touch
Tap exactly where you mean. The stream is your touchscreen, backed by keyboard input and a Mac shortcut-gesture menu — zero learning curve.
Extended Display
Turn your iPhone into a real second desktop for your Mac — not a mirror, but its own space you can drag windows onto, behaving exactly like an external monitor. Switch it on from the menu when you need it, off when you don't. No extra hardware. How it works →
Single-App Streaming
Stream just one Mac window to your iPhone — put Logic's control panel, a monitoring dashboard, or a chat window on your phone while your Mac screen keeps doing something else. Taps automatically raise the target window.
A full MacBook keyboard
Drawn to match the real thing: Esc, F1–F12, arrow keys, ⌘⌥⌃⇧ combinations and caps lock. The iOS keyboard can't send a single one of these — and they're exactly what you need when driving a Mac. Sticky modifiers make combos work one-handed. How it works →
Measured 2026-09-08: MacBook Pro (M2 Pro) ↔ iPhone 16 Pro, 5 GHz Wi-Fi 6 at −46 dBm, direct peer-to-peer with no relay. 320 readings over 10 minutes while streaming 1920×1240 at 54 fps — median 5 ms, p95 9 ms. Network round trip only, not glass-to-glass. Turn on Performance Info in the app to measure your own.
Built for play
Turn your iPhone into
a complete Mac game controller.
TouchNow combines a custom virtual gamepad, Mac screen streaming, a trackpad and a keyboard so you can play Mac games on your iPhone. Compare support across alternatives →
A fully customizable virtual controller
Not a canned four-button gamepad. Your game, your layout.
- Any number of buttons and sticks — drag to place, slide to resize
- Bind multi-key combos to any button (e.g. Shift + Z to fire a skill)
- Dual sticks: WASD movement on the left, arrow-key camera on the right — bind each direction separately
- Adjustable stick trigger sensitivity — a light push is all it takes
- Physical MFi / Xbox / PS controllers take over automatically when connected
Latency pushed to the physical limit
Every link in the chain is built for real-time control, not for watching videos.
- Direct WebRTC peer-to-peer connection with a 0–30 ms adaptive playback buffer: zero waiting on a clean network, automatic absorption when it jitters
- Input rides a cumulative-delta protocol — even with packet loss, not one millimeter of your movement goes missing
- Hardware encoding and decoding end to end; game keys kept alive by a 50 ms heartbeat
- Built-in performance panel: fps / p95 frame interval / RTT / buffer depth shown live — no guessing at the numbers
Dropped? It reconnects itself.
The number-one complaint against the big remote tools is "won't connect, freezes dead." We made reconnection good enough to put in the copy.
- Lost connections retry automatically, with progress and attempt count on screen — it never fails silently
- Back to the Home Screen? Picture in Picture (PiP) keeps playing without dropping the connection; a Live Activity card stays on your lock screen
- Wi-Fi jitter, Mac sleep and wake, lock screen, app switching — all eight scenarios exhaustively tested, all passing
- Mac asleep? Wake it with Wake-on-LAN in one tap, then connect
60 seconds to play
Three steps to start — no account, no router setup.
Install TouchNow on your Mac
Download the free TouchNow Host from touchmac.app (it is not on the Mac App Store), grant the permissions, and it stands by.
Scan the QR with your iPhone
Scan the QR code on your Mac's screen to complete encrypted pairing; not near the Mac? Pair remotely with an encrypted pairing code plus PIN. Connect once within 10 minutes to complete enrolment; after that it stays valid long-term and can be revoked anytime.
Tap to connect
Your Mac is found automatically on the same Wi-Fi. Lie down. Play.
Why TouchNow
See how it stacks up.
| Feature | TouchNow | Steam Link | Moonlight | Traditional remote desktop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Mac host support | ✓ | Steam games only | Incomplete on Mac | ✓ |
| Custom controller layouts / key combos | ✓ Fully customizable | Fixed layout | No remapping | ✕ |
| Zero-setup pairing (QR / auto-discovery) | ✓ | Steam account required | PIN + firewall | Usually needs an account |
| Single-app window streaming | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Trackpad / direct touch / keyboard | ✓ All three modes | ✕ | Basic | ✓ |
| Auto-reconnect with visible progress | ✓ | Drops when backgrounded | Unstable | Depends on product |
| No account · Direct P2P, relay only if needed | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | Usually relayed |
| Full Mac keyboard (Esc / F1–F12 / ⌘⌥⌃⇧) | ✓ Whole MacBook layout | ✕ | Basic | Partial |
Private by design
Your screen stays between your own devices.
TouchNow needs no account and stores nothing in the cloud. Connections go peer-to-peer between your devices wherever possible, with cryptography guarding every step.
Tonight, play your Mac somewhere new.
Download TouchNow — your Mac is in your hands 60 seconds from now.