Laplet

Your Mac, in your hand.

Half-fold an iPhone Duo and it’s a small laptop: your Mac on the upper screen, a Mac keyboard and trackpad on the lower one. Laplet runs on iPhone and iPad too.

Free. Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.

iPhone Duo showing a Mac desktop in the upper half of the screen, with a Mac keyboard and trackpad in the lower half.

The layout changes with the screen.

Open iPhone Duo held sideways, with the Mac filling the screen and a split keyboard in the lower corners.
Closed iPhone Duo showing the Mac on its outer screen, above a bar of Mac keys and the system keyboard.
iPhone showing the Mac above a bar of Mac keys and the system keyboard.
iPad showing the Mac above a full Mac keyboard and trackpad.

A real Mac keyboard.

A US layout with control, option, command, fn, and arrow keys. Press several at once for real shortcuts, and switch the top row between media keys and F1–F12.

Close-up of Laplet's Mac keyboard: media keys, number row, letters, and modifier keys.

A trackpad, right below it.

Tap to click. Two-finger tap to right-click. Scroll with two fingers, long press to drag. Or hold the space bar and use the keys as a trackpad.

Close-up of Laplet's trackpad with its gesture hints.

Nothing letterboxed.

For the length of a session your Mac takes the shape of your screen. It goes back when you disconnect.

Only between your devices.

Video and input travel encrypted with TLS 1.3 from your device to your Mac and never pass through a developer server. There’s no account to create and no analytics in the app. Read the privacy policy.

Start on your Mac.

The Mac app lives in your menu bar and sends your screen to your device. Connecting takes three steps.

Laplet on the Mac, waiting for a device, with Screen Recording and Accessibility allowed.
Laplet on the Mac showing a pairing QR code. Laplet on iPhone with a Scan QR Code button.
Laplet on the Mac asking to approve iPhone, showing the code 490227. Laplet on iPhone showing the same code, 490227.

On the same Wi-Fi, that’s all. To reach your Mac from somewhere else, install Tailscale on both devices and sign in to the same account.

Get Laplet for Mac.

Download for Mac

Version 1.0.0, 4.95 MB. Signed with an Apple Developer ID.

Apple is still notarizing this build. Until it finishes, macOS may say it can’t verify Laplet: click Done, then go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

The iPhone and iPad app isn’t on the App Store yet.

Mac
Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later
iPhone or iPad
iOS or iPadOS 27 or later
Connection
The same Wi-Fi, or Tailscale on both
Not yet
Audio, clipboard, and file transfer
SHA-256
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