Remote Buddy Mobile 22.5.1 - App Store

Control your Mac, with your iPhone or iPad acting as trackpad, keyboard, mirrored display and powerful remote control for 100+ Mac apps.

Watch web videos and streaming services in Safari or Google Chrome and control playback, speed and volume from the comfort of your couch.

Use the built-in, high performance screen sharing to mirror your screen on your device's display and control your Mac from another room.

Deliver your presentations with confidence using the multitouch trackpad and its elegant Mousespot highlight.

Launch, switch and quit apps - or pick from Remote Buddy's huge library of 1.200+ actions for 100+ popular Mac apps, right from your device.

Remote Buddy Mobile is the mobile companion app for Remote Buddy, the remote control app for your Mac.
KEY FEATURES

. Remote Control
Control 100+ popular Mac apps with 1.200+ tailor-made actions.

. Multi-touch Trackpad with Mousespot
Click, drag, scroll, switch spaces or invoke Mission Control.
Want to highlight parts of your presentations? Or looking for the mouse pointer? Remote Buddy's Mousespot spotlight effect is just a tap away!

. Shortcut Bar
The configurable shortcut bar provides quick access to essential actions for the controlled app in the Remote and Trackpad modes.

. Smart Remote
Fusing the best parts of remote, trackpad and shortcut bar into a single, app-specific view, Smart Remote puts everything needed to control an app within reach.

. Web Video Control
Control playback, speed and volume of almost all web videos - without having to fiddle with controls in the browser. Works with YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, tv.apple.com, Vimeo and many more in Safari and Google Chrome.

. Screen Sharing
Instantly see your Mac's screen, with up to 60 frames per second. Supports zooming, dragging, clicking, scrolling, multiple displays and more.

. Actions and App Control
Pick from Remote Buddy's huge library of 1.200+ app-specific actions; launch, switch and quit apps right from your device. Favorite frequently used apps and actions for quick access.

. Keyboard and Numpad
Type text and numbers into browsers, search fields, editors, spreadsheets and more. Supports modifiers, cursor keys, the iOS keyboard's dictation feature, password manager integration and more.

. Power Actions and Wake-On-LAN
Save power by putting your Mac to sleep - and wake it up later through Wake-On-LAN. Or initiate a reboot or shut down right from the app.

. Audio Settings
Change your system's default audio output to a different device or AirPlay target. Control its volume and mute status where supported.

. Connection secured with TLS
Support for the new Secure Connection feature of Remote Buddy 2.0, keeping your connection private through strong, certificate-based TLS 1.2 encryption.
SUPPORTED APPS

Some of the Mac apps that Remote Buddy for Mac and - thereby - Remote Buddy Mobile can control out of the box:

Acrobat Pro, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Reader, AirFoil, Aperture, Audio Hijack 3, Audirvana, Books, Broadcasts, Calendar, Deckset, DVD Player, Elmedia Video Player, EyeTV, FlexTime, Firefox, GarageBand, Google Chrome, Impress (OpenOffice.org & LibreOffice), iPhoto, iTunes, Keynote, Kodi, Lightroom 1/2/3/4/5/Classic/CC, Mac Blu-Ray Player, Movist, Music, OpenPHT, Photo Booth, Photos, Plex for Mac, Plex Media Player, Podcasts, PowerPoint, Preview, QuickTime Player, Roon, Safari, Skim, Spotify, TV.app, VoodooPad, VLC, XBMC, Yojimbo

A complete list of supported apps is available at the Remote Buddy website. If you want us to add support for an app that's not listed there, please let us know through the contact form of our website.
HOST REQUIREMENTS

Requires a Mac running Remote Buddy 2.0 or later. Remote Buddy 2.0 requires macOS 10.12 or later. Licenses for Remote Buddy for the Mac are sold separately and not part of this app.

Version History Bugfixes. 2.5.1 09/12/2024 - NEW: Password Manager support: select a login and password on your device and send it to your Mac as virtual key presses
- NEW: support for dictation via the iOS/iPadOS software keyboard
- NEW: screen sharing now also supports input through an iPad's trackpad or mouse
- NEW: support for hardware keyboards
- Bugfixes

If you like Remote Buddy Mobile and would like to support us, please consider leaving a review. 2.5 09/25/2023 - improved wake-on-LAN (WOL) support
- bugfixes 2.0.1 04/09/2022 2.0 05/26/2021