Everythingyouneed.
Nothingyoudon't.
Every feature that turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into a live control surface for your Mac.
Three ways to pair. All effortless.
Tap your Mac to connect instantly — like pairing AirPods. Or use a 4-digit PIN or QR code as fallback. Enterprise-grade encryption either way.
Discover
Your Mac appears automatically via Bonjour over Wi-Fi or USB — no IP addresses, no configuration.
Tap to Connect
Tap your Mac in the list. Your Mac shows an approval notification — click Allow.
Paired
ECDH key exchange completes instantly. Session key stored in Keychain. Done.
Pairing Request
wants to connect to this Mac
XcodeYour deck follows your focus.
Switch to Xcode — your debugging shortcuts appear. Open Photoshop — brush tools ready. DeckPilot watches your Mac's foreground app and auto-switches decks instantly.
- Automatic deck switching
- Per-app custom decks
- Instant transitions
Design your perfect deck.
Drag, drop, and resize buttons to create the exact deck you need. Any grid size, any arrangement. Full visual editor built into the Mac app.
- Drag-and-drop grid editor
- Custom row and column counts
- Button spanning (multi-cell buttons)
- Custom icons and colors
- Duplicate and reuse decks
Swipe between pages of buttons.
Organize complex workflows across multiple pages. Each app can have as many pages as you need. Swipe or tap to switch.
Your Mac controls, on your Home Screen. Or StandBy.
Pin DeckPilot widgets to your iPhone Home Screen for instant access, or charge sideways and use StandBy as a permanent bedside or desk control panel. Tap a button and it fires on your Mac. App never has to be open.
- Small, medium, and large widget sizes
- Smart pagination — arrows to page through buttons
- Multiple widgets show different button pages automatically
- Works in StandBy mode on the lock screen
- Choose specific buttons or let auto-distribution handle it
Built-in OLED burn-in protection.
Designed for StandBy Mode and docked use. After 30 seconds idle, the display dims to 30% brightness and shifts to grayscale — protecting your OLED panel from static image retention. Touch anywhere to instantly restore full color and brightness.
- 30-second idle detection
- Dims to 30% brightness + grayscale
- Instant full-color restore on touch
- Perfect for StandBy Mode & docked use
One Mac. Unlimited control surfaces.
Connect your iPhone and iPad simultaneously. Each device shows its own deck, tailored to the screen size.
Xcode
VS Code
Figma
Photoshop
Slack
Chrome
Terminal
Notion
OBS
Final Cut
Illustrator
Premiere
Cursor
Arc
iTerm2
Blender
Your deck is a time machine.
The app you just brought to the foreground on your Mac lands at position 1 on your iPhone. Switch apps and the deck reshuffles in real time. No setup, no config, no list of bundle IDs to maintain — your most-used apps surface automatically.
Latest app, position 1
The app you just focused on your Mac always lands in slot 1. The grid reshuffles in real time as you switch.
Smart ranking
70% recency, 30% frequency. Your most-used apps surface automatically without any setup.
Auto-refresh
Regenerates instantly on app focus change and every 2 hours in the background.
No config
No buttons to set up. The deck is generated for you and updated as your day moves.
A power user's paradise.
Your deck, on your wrist.
Six buttons on your watch face. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap-from-watch-face. Phone in your pocket, Mac across the room, you still in control.
Digital Crown
Twist for volume, brightness, or zoom. The Crown is the smoothest scrubber on your wrist.
3×2 deck
Six glanceable buttons sized for a wrist tap. Same actions as your iPhone deck, on your watch.
Complications
Pin one DeckPilot button to your watch face. Tap it without ever opening the app.
Requires the iPhone companion app and a Pro subscription.
The Touch Bar Apple killed. We brought it back.
A persistent system control strip on your iPhone or iPad. Volume, brightness, now playing, mic — always one tap away. Works on every Mac.
Volume
Included freeDrag to adjust. Tap icon to mute.
Brightness
Included freeControl display brightness instantly.
Clock
Included freePersistent time display at a glance.
Now Playing
ProPlay, pause, skip. See artwork and track info.
Mic Mute
ProSee your mic status at a glance. No more unmuted mic mishaps.
Active App
ProAlways see what app is focused on your Mac.
Customizable per layout. Drag to reorder. Resize modules to fit your workflow.
Swipe on glass. Your Mac responds.
Two-finger swipes maximize and minimize windows. Three-finger swipes flip between desktops. Your iPhone is a multi-touch trackpad for the Mac across the room.
2-finger up
Maximize window
Zoom the front app to fill the screen.
2-finger down
Minimize window
Drop the front app into the dock.
3-finger left
Previous desktop
Swipe between Mission Control spaces.
3-finger right
Next desktop
Swipe to the next workspace, hands-free.
Fully customizable. Map any gesture to any action.
Open any app, fire any shortcut, run any macro, swap decks, trigger scenes. Customize on the Mac, fires on your deck instantly. Not limited to what we ship.
Themes for every deck. Or one for them all.
Pick a global theme, or override per deck. Smarter Liquid Glass on light backgrounds, vibrant accent palettes, automatic dark/light adaptation. Your Slack deck can look nothing like your Logic deck.
Smarter Liquid Glass
Real-time light-mode detection. Glass adapts contrast so labels stay readable on every wallpaper.
Per-deck override
Your design deck can wear pink while your DAW deck stays midnight. One global default, infinite per-deck overrides.
Touch Bar inherits
Touch Bar styling lives in the theme. Change the theme, the bar follows. No separate panel to wrestle.
Ready to try it?
Free download. Set up in under 60 seconds. No credit card.
macOS 14+ and iPhone (iOS 17+) required. Why software over hardware?
Lives in your menu bar.
No dock icon. No window to manage. DeckPilot sits quietly in your menu bar, showing connected devices and giving you quick access to settings.
- See connected device count at a glance
- Quick access to device pairing
- Open deck editor from menu
- Zero interference with your workflow
A real MIDI surface, not just shortcut buttons.
Continuous touch on glass becomes faders, knobs, toggles, and transport notes that speak directly to Logic, Ableton, GarageBand, and anything that listens to MCU or MMC.
Faders
Continuous CC sliders. Drag to ride volumes, sweep filters, automate sends in Logic, Ableton, GarageBand.
Knobs
Hybrid knob: tap to toggle, drag to dial. Acts like an MCU encoder for DAWs that speak Mackie.
Toggle & momentary buttons
Mute, solo, arm, hold-to-talk. Stateful or transient — your call, per button.
MMC + MCU notes
Stop/play/record on note 93/94/95. Mackie HUI mode for Pro Tools, MMC for hardware racks.
Simple pricing. Powerful control.
Free tier covers most workflows. Pro unlocks the advanced stuff.
Free forever — no credit card required.
- Unlimited decks, 8 buttons each
- App launchers, shortcuts & system controls
- Touch Bar: volume, brightness, clock
- Two-finger swipe down gesture
- Manual deck switching
- One-tap pairing
$3.25/mo billed annually
- Unlimited pages & buttons per deck
- App-Aware — auto-switch by app
- Pro Actions (scripts, macros, Shortcuts)
- Multi-app & multi-URL launch buttons
- All swipe gestures (2 & 3 finger)
- MIDI controls: faders, knobs, pads
- Full Touch Bar (all modules)
- Window actions: Mission Control & more
Pay once, Pro forever.
- Everything in Pro, forever
- All future Pro features included
- Pay once, no renewals
- No price hikes, no surprises
Requires macOS Sonoma 14+ · iPhone XS or later (iOS 17+) · iPad with iPadOS 17+