Reach Desktop · Your Mac on your iPhone. Fast, native, yours.

App Focus

Stream one app. Mask everything else.

Every remote desktop streams your entire screen — your email, your banking, your everything — just to let you check on one window. Reach Desktop can stream only the app you choose. The rest of your Mac is masked black and never leaves the machine.

Unique to Reach

Your agent, and nothing else.

Pick Claude, Codex, Cursor, a terminal, a render, a download window — Reach crops the stream to that app's windows and blacks out the rest, on the Mac, before a single pixel is encoded. It is privacy by construction, not by promise.

Reach remembers your choice per Mac. Open the app on your phone tomorrow and you're looking at exactly the window you care about, instantly.

A real App Focus capture: the chosen app is visible, the rest of the Mac's screen is masked black.

Real App Focus output — everything outside the chosen app is black before encoding

The approval moment

Approve it from anywhere.

Agents stop and wait — for a permission, a decision, a next prompt. The text-only companion apps tell you that it happened. Reach shows you the diff on screen, the test output, the browser preview it just built — so you can answer with confidence.

Tap the option. Speak the next prompt. Your voice types straight into any Mac text field, with the keyboard appearing on its own the moment a field is focused.

Real capture

The full desktop underneath

A complete remote Mac, one tap away.

The foundation is a fast, honest, full remote Mac that feels native in your hand — App Focus and voice ride on top of it.

Control

Native-feeling control.

Tap to click exactly where you touch. A relative trackpad with real momentum scroll when you want precision. Full keyboard with compound chords (Command-Space is right there), plus a quick-actions dock you customize once and keep.

Crisp zoom is server-side: the Mac re-crops the stream at native resolution, so zoomed-in text is sharp enough to read fonts — not a blurry client-side enlargement.

Touch-first control with a precision trackpad mode and customizable quick actions

Voice

Say it instead of typing it.

The iOS keyboard is nobody's favorite way to write a paragraph. Tap any Mac text field and dictate — your words land in the field on the Mac, with a field-aware voice bar that follows your focus around the screen. Prompting an agent from your phone stops feeling like phone typing.

Field-aware voice input: tap a Mac text field, speak, done

PRO

Reach it anywhere. Automatically.

At home, the connection is direct over your LAN — pure device-to-device, nothing in between. Away from home, on cellular, or overseas, Reach fails over to a private relay on its own, within seconds. No mode switch, no VPN app to install, no thinking about it.

The Mac publishes to both paths from one capture, so the handoff is seamless — walk out the door mid-session and keep watching.

LAN-first with automatic relay failover: home is direct, away just works

PRO

Every monitor. Mac sound too.

A multi-monitor picker shows your displays as live labeled thumbnails — tap to switch mid-session. And the Mac's audio streams alongside the video, so the render you're checking, the video that finished exporting, the chime you were waiting for — you hear it.

Multi-monitor picker with live thumbnails, plus Mac audio streaming

Mac Host App

Set-and-forget host.

A lightweight menu-bar app starts at login, stays out of your way, and shows one of three states at a glance. A watchdog keeps it alive so your Mac is always reachable — the whole point of a remote Mac is that it's there when you reach for it.

Off

Host inactive

Ready

Waiting for your iPhone

Connected

Session live

Where it fits

Not a better VNC. A different answer.

Classic remote desktops stream everything and were built for desktop-to-desktop work. Agent companion apps show you text and lock you to one vendor. Reach Desktop is a remote Mac that feels native — with powers neither has: the real screen, one app at a time, any vendor, full control underneath.

	Reach Desktop	Classic remote desktop	Agent companion apps
See the actual screen	✓ pixel-true video	✓	✕ text & diffs only
Stream just one app	✓ App Focus	✕ whole desktop only	—
Works with any agent	✓ Claude, Codex, Cursor, any app	✓	✕ one vendor each
Full Mac control	✓ always one tap away	✓	✕
Voice into any field	✓ field-aware	✕	✕
Pricing	Pay once	Mostly subscriptions	Bundled with AI plans

"Classic remote desktop" = the Screens / Jump Desktop / Splashtop category. "Agent companion apps" = the first-party mobile apps for Claude, Codex, and Cursor, and terminal-mirror tools.

Pricing

One price. Yours to keep.

Every other good remote on the App Store is drifting to a monthly bill. Reaching your own Mac should not cost rent.

One-time purchase

Free tier · always included

Free forever

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Pro · unlock everything

^$39

one time, no subscription

Full control of your Mac on your home network, free. Add Pro to reach it from anywhere and unlock every advanced feature.

Free · included for everyone

Full mirror on your home Wi-Fi
Tap-to-click touch + precision trackpad
Full keyboard, chords, and voice input
Crisp server-side zoom
Custom quick actions
Auto-launch menu-bar host
Face ID session lock

Pro · unlock with a one-time purchase

Reach anywhere — cellular, remote, overseas, with automatic failover
All monitors with the live picker
Mac sound streamed with the video
Unlimited quick actions and launcher entries
Priority support

Final free/Pro feature split may be tuned during the beta — beta testers get the generous end of every call.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What exactly is App Focus? ⌄

App Focus streams only the app you choose — its windows are cropped and everything else on your Mac is masked black on the Mac itself, before encoding. Pixels from your other windows never leave the machine. It's ideal for watching a coding agent, a render, or a download without broadcasting your whole desktop. One tap returns you to the full screen. No other remote desktop we know of can do this — the category streams the entire display or nothing.

Does it need the internet to work? ⌄

At home: no. On your own network the connection is direct over the LAN — device-to-device, nothing in between, no traffic leaving your router.

Away (Pro): the session automatically fails over to a private relay so cellular and remote networks just work — no VPN app, no setup, no mode picking.

Is the connection private? ⌄

Yes. On your home network your Mac and iPhone talk directly to each other — no third-party server ever sees your screen. Away from home, the stream is encrypted in transit through a dedicated relay that exists only to forward packets; nothing is stored, and no account of yours lives on someone else's remote-desktop cloud. Add App Focus and even the encoded stream contains only the one app you chose. Sessions are gated behind Face ID on the iOS side.

Does it carry sound? ⌄

Yes. The Mac's audio streams alongside the video, so you hear the export chime, the video you're previewing, or the notification you were waiting on — synced with what you see.

What about DRM-protected video? ⌄

Personal and local media works fine: your own video files, QuickTime, VLC, anything that does not enforce DRM at the display layer. Some apps (like streaming services using HDCP protection) intentionally blank the capture buffer as a rights-management measure. That is a system-level restriction Apple enforces, not something Reach Desktop can override. DRM apps aside, everything else you use day to day mirrors perfectly.

What does the Mac need? ⌄

An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 14 or newer, with the lightweight Reach Desktop host app installed in the menu bar. Grant it Screen Recording so it can capture your display and Accessibility so your iPhone's taps and keys can drive the cursor. The host auto-starts at login and stays out of your way.

How is this different from VNC or macOS Screen Sharing? ⌄

VNC and Screen Sharing chop your display into compressed image tiles and send them over TCP. Any motion stutters. Colored text blurs into mush. One dropped packet freezes the picture.

Reach Desktop captures your display with ScreenCaptureKit, encodes it on the GPU as H.264 video in real time, and streams it over WebRTC. That is the same approach Parsec and Moonlight use for game streaming. Motion stays smooth, text stays sharp, and lost packets are handled gracefully by the protocol rather than freezing your session.