Your Mac,
under your fingers.

Turn your iPad into a fast, full-screen window onto your Mac, at home or away. Type, dictate, write with Pencil and control your desktop with familiar gestures.

Requires Remote Rat on your Mac with a paid subscription. Sign in to the same iCloud account on both devices.

Remote Rat streaming a Mac desktop to iPad

A native control surface.
Not a browser in a frame.

01

Dictation

Speak naturally on iPad and send the finished thought straight into the active Mac field.

02

Full Mac keyboard

Keep Command, Option, Control, Shift, Tab, arrows and your custom shortcuts within reach.

03

Up to 90 Hz

Native Retina-quality H.264 streaming targets the iPad display and prioritises fresh frames over stale work.

04

Native trackpad control

Use the entire display as a trackpad, with scrolling, pinch zoom and familiar macOS gestures.

05

Window gestures

Three fingers can take an app full screen; two-finger drags from either side arrange split-screen windows.

06

Apple Pencil

Point, drag and write with direct Pencil input plus native Scribble handwriting-to-text.

Mac to iPad.
No hosted screen relay.

Connect directly on your local network, or use built-in peer-to-peer connectivity when you’re away. Our discovery service helps your devices find each other; your screen, audio and controls travel directly between them, never through our servers.

Some networks block direct connections. If yours does, a separately configured tool such as Tailscale can provide an alternative route.