You’re not on a Mac. Open pawandixit.com/control/mac on the Mac you want to control. Looking for the iPhone, iPad, Mac or Vision Pro window app? It’s on TestFlight.

Control for Mac

The menu bar app that lets your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Vision Pro see and control this Mac.

Download Control for Mac

Free Apple silicon (M1 or later) macOS 15 or later Notarized by Apple

What happens next

  1. Drag Control to Applications.

    It has to live there — macOS won’t load the camera extension from anywhere else.

  2. Open it. It lives in the menu bar.

    macOS will ask once whether you’re sure — that’s the normal prompt for an app downloaded from the web. The first time, a Set Up Control window walks you through two permissions; after that there’s no window and no Dock icon.

  3. Grant Screen Recording and Accessibility.

    Control walks you through both. The first one asks you to reopen the app afterwards; that’s macOS, not a bug. Then macOS asks to let Control find devices on your local network — allow it.

  4. Your device is already looking for it.

    On the same Wi‑Fi the Mac appears by name in Add Mac — tap it, check both screens show the same six digits, and click Accept on the Mac. Not on the same Wi‑Fi? Choose Add a Device on the Mac, then scan its code, or copy the code and paste it into Add Mac. No account, ever.

Control for Mac needs a Mac with Apple silicon — M1 or later. Macs with an Intel processor aren’t supported. Not sure which you have? Choose Apple menu → About This Mac: a Chip line means Apple silicon; a Processor line that names Intel means this download won’t open.

Control isn’t on the Mac App Store because capturing a screen and moving a cursor need entitlements the App Store sandbox doesn’t allow. It’s signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which is the same check the App Store runs for malware.

What Control does →