# Apperture: Remote Desktop Apps — Big apps on small screens

> Big apps on small screens (iPhone/iPad app by LAND MK 1.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apperture-remote-desktop-apps/id6766278792 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [LAND MK 1](https://appshunter.io/developer/1803860659)
- Category: Developer Tools, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-06-18
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apperture-remote-desktop-apps/id6766278792/reviews.md

## What is Apperture?

Apperture lets you see and control one Mac app right from your iPhone — not your whole desktop. Apperture mirrors just the app that matters, full-screen on your phone, so it feels like the app is running in your hand.

Traditional screen sharing puts a 27-inch desktop on a 6-inch screen and makes you pan, zoom, and hunt for windows. Apperture takes the opposite approach: pick a single running Mac app and it fills your iPhone with a sharp,
low-latency live view sized for the screen you're actually holding.

BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS
• Mirror the iOS Simulator and it feels native: touches map directly, and rotating your phone rotates the simulated app.
• Keep working while your Mac builds and runs. Perfect for agent-assisted coding — let Claude Code or your favorite agent build and launch the app on your Mac, then review and interact with the result from anywhere in the
house.
• Stream any Xcode-launched Mac app with its real window chrome intact.

FULL CONTROL, NOT JUST A VIEW
• Tap, drag, long-press for right-click, two-finger scroll — touch input translated naturally to the Mac.
• Type with the iPhone keyboard, including full Unicode text entry.
• Browse and run the Mac app's real menu bar commands from a searchable, touch-friendly palette.
• Send clipboard text securely between devices.
• Fit-width, fit-height, and readable-zoom layout modes in portrait and landscape.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No accounts. No cloud relay. Your screen never touches our servers.
• Pairing starts with a short-lived QR code on your Mac, and the Mac owner must explicitly approve every phone.
• Connections work only over private networks — your Wi-Fi or your own VPN such as Tailscale. Public endpoints are rejected by design.
• Every session is encrypted. Pairing trust is stored in the device Keychain and never synced to the cloud.
• Review or revoke paired devices anytime. The Mac keeps a local 30-day session history — device, time, and app names only, never keystrokes or screen contents.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Apperture requires the free companion Mac app from runapperture.com. It's notarized by Apple and distributed directly because it uses Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions the Mac App Store doesn't allow.
• Away from home, you'll need a VPN to reach your Mac — Tailscale takes about five minutes to set up, works beautifully, and is free for personal use.
• Your Mac does all the work, so it needs to be on, awake, and logged in. Apperture is a viewer and controller for your own Mac, not a way to run Mac apps on iPhone.
• Apperture streams one selected window at a time — that focus is the point.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Early Adopter | $24.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-01

Minor version bump to now display the name of the iPhone or iPad that is paired with the Mac host.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-22

Your Mac no longer needs to be awake and unlocked before you connect. With this update, Apperture can wake your Mac from your iPhone — confirm with Face ID, and your Mac wakes, unlocks, and starts streaming. Remote unlock and keep-awake are now on by default.

New
- Wake and unlock your locked Mac remotely, secured with Face ID
- The menu bar now shows what's streaming and which devices are connected, at a glance

Improved
- The host app remembers your window size, tabs, filters, and searches across restarts
- Full keyboard control: ⌘P to pair, ⌘R to refresh, ⌘F to search the log, and more
- Copy device details, session info, and logs from anywhere — right-click anything
- Sortable session history with clearer network icons and helpful tooltips
- Sharper visuals in Dark Mode

Fixed
- Smoother video on iOS when frames arrive faster than they can be shown
- Faster first stream when selecting an app
- Input is no longer blocked when the Mac screen saver is running
- Android emulator windows are now shown correctly and appear in the app switcher

### 1.0.0 — 2026-06-18

No release notes.

## More apps by LAND MK 1

- [Bestof: Vote For What's Best](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bestof-vote-for-whats-best/id6743659836)
- [GamePlan: Calendar Syncing](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gameplan-calendar-syncing/id6749655632)
- [Solo Scheduling](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solo-scheduling/id6760835861)

All apps by LAND MK 1: https://appshunter.io/developer/1803860659

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