Control your Mac from your iPad.

Ways to control it

• Touch. Tap a button, drag a window, scroll a page. What you touch is what you get.
• Trackpad mode. The screen becomes a trackpad that moves the Mac's pointer, with click, right click, middle click, drag and scrolling that glides.
• Mac keyboard. An on-screen keyboard with Command, Option, Control and Shift, which can be latched for shortcuts.
• App keys. One-tap keys for Spotlight, Mission Control, Switch App, Undo and Redo.
• Your own keyboard. A hardware keyboard connected to the iPad types on the Mac. The iOS keyboard works too, in any language.

What you see

The Mac fills the iPad's screen edge to edge, in either orientation, because the Mac creates a display in the iPad's shape instead of scaling down a wide one. A small bar brings up the keyboard, app keys and pointer when you need them, and tucks away when you do not.

By default you see your whole Mac, every window. If you would rather keep the Mac's own screen as it is and use the iPad as an extra display, switch to Second Display in the app's Settings. More about using it as a display.

From the sofa, or from another city

At home, the iPad and the Mac find each other on your Wi-Fi and connect directly. That is free, for one Mac, with no time limit.

With Pro you can open your Mac from any connection with nothing to set up. The Mac has to be on, awake and running Duotop. Away from your network the connection goes through Duotop's relay, which only passes encrypted data it cannot read. Open your Mac away from home.

Let an agent use the Mac, and watch

Duotop for Mac can give an AI agent running on that Mac a screen, a pointer and a keyboard. Your iPad shows what it is doing, with a banner and a glowing rim while it is in control. Touch the picture and it pauses until you tap Resume. Agent tools are off until you turn them on. How agents work.

Safe to leave paired

You pair once with a six-digit code shown on the Mac. Every session after that is encrypted end to end with fresh keys, and only devices you paired can open your Mac. To remove an iPad, choose Forget in the Mac app's menu.

What it does not do yet

• Copying images or files between the Mac and the device. The shared clipboard carries text.
• Using the device's microphone as the Mac's microphone.
• Waking a Mac that is asleep. The Mac has to be on and awake.

Get it

You need both apps. Duotop for Mac is a free download for macOS 26 or later. The iPhone and iPad app needs iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 and is on the App Store. Pairing takes one six-digit code, and there is no account.