choclift vs DeckPilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
choclift
Control your Mac from your iPhone with custom shortcuts, app launches, website access, and emoji input. Streamline your workflow with intuitive gestures and drag-and-drop functionality. Unlock advanced features with an optional subscription or one-time purchase.
- iPhone control for Mac
- Customizable app and website shortcuts
- Emoji input bar
- Apple Shortcuts integration
- Finger gestures for window control
- Drag and drop file transfer
- App Time Travel for recent apps
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Access apps, Apple Shortcuts, websites and emojis on your Mac using your iPhone or iPad. choclift is the third input device you didn't know you needed in your Mac setup. It turns an iPhone or iPad into a touch (chocolate) bar that makes working with your Mac more intuitive, productive, accessible and, most of all, more fun. That last part is important, so it features a beautiful design, a satisfying user experience and plenty of chocolate references. Customize up to eight pages in your choclift bar with your favorite apps, Apple Shortcuts or website bookmarks you'd like to have just one tap away. See how tapping an app not only feels great, but also lets you perform actions like drag and drop faster and switch between apps in an instant. With "App Time Travel," you even get a new smart dock that shows you your recently opened apps, so it always adapts to your current workflow. Deliciously easy: Install choclift on both your iPhone/iPad and Mac, make sure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network, and connect once. That’s it. With choclift’s incredibly sweet recipe, you can even connect multiple devices at the same time. Your taste, your layout: Choose the Mac apps, Shortcuts and websites your workflow can’t get enough of and arrange them in a layout that fits your needs. With the optional “Added Sugar” subscription or one-time purchase, you can unlock additional pages for your setup. Introducing Emoji Bar: Add emojis to any text on your Mac with a simple tap on your iPhone/iPad, and customize up to eight slides with your favorite emojis. Apple Shortcuts Support: Create simple to advanced Shortcuts with the Apple Shortcuts app, add them to your choclift bar, and top them with custom emojis. Add Website Bookmarks: Your favorite URLs are just one tap away. Finger Gestures: Minimize and maximize windows with two fingers or trigger actions like copy and paste in a fast and intuitive way. Gestures are executed locally through the Mac app. App Time Travel: Scroll through a timeline of your recently opened Mac apps and pin your favorites to quickly jump between workflows. Available with the optional “Added Sugar” upgrade. Pricing is shown in-app. Drag & Drop, sweetly upgraded: Use your mouse to drag files on your Mac and use choclift to quickly access the target app, no matter which desktop it’s on. Portrait or landscape: Use choclift the way you like. Rotate your iPhone/iPad and place it wherever it fits best into your setup. Every workflow is different, so we hope many people will discover new ways to lift their productivity to new heights with our little tasty treat. Important: choclift requires the companion Mac app to function. All actions are executed locally on your Mac. To unlock the full choclift experience, choclift offers an optional auto-renewing subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Added Sugar (choclift Premium) It includes: • Multiple pages for your choclift Bar (up to 8) • App Time Travel • 8 customizable slides in your Emoji Bar to pick from up to 64 emojis • Future premium features as they are released Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. The lifetime purchase is a one-time payment that unlocks Premium permanently and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://www.choclift.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DeckPilot
Transform your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into custom button decks for your Mac. Streamline workflows with customizable buttons, macros, and gestures that adapt to your active application. Enjoy tactile feedback and dynamic visual cues for enhanced productivity.
- Customizable button decks for Mac apps
- Macro builder with AppleScript and Shortcuts integration
- Tactile feedback and customizable haptics
- Dynamic button states and visual cues
- Trackpad gesture emulation
- Touch Bar functionality on mobile devices
- MIDI support for DAWs
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Made for people who care about how they work with their Mac. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad shape how you reach into your Mac. There's another way. DeckPilot turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into custom button decks that follow whichever app you're in. Logic, Xcode, Figma, Slack: the right buttons are always under your thumb. Quick to set up Install on your Mac and iPhone, connect once over Wi-Fi or USB. Auto-reconnects the way AirDrop does. No hardware to buy. Buttons for everything Tap to open Figma. Tap to mute Zoom. Tap to fire a 5-step macro. Build them from apps, files, websites, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, or Apple Shortcuts, and chain anything together in a visual macro builder. 300,000+ icons, or bring your own. One button, more than one move Tap for one thing, double-tap for another, hold for a third. Or hold to pop open a whole submenu of buttons from a single tile. One button can run your whole flow. Buttons you can feel Every press lands with a real mechanical click and a tactile thump. Pick the feel, from a crisp keyboard to a soft, heavy thock, with sound and haptics you tune separately. Your Mac's clipboard, on your phone Everything you copy on your Mac lands in a searchable history on your phone. Pin what you reuse, see when you copied it, and send any snippet back to your Mac with a tap. Images come through full-size. Every workflow its own look A teal gradient and big icons for your DAW. A tight grid with greyscale icons for your code editor. Pick from the community gallery or design your own. Buttons that already know A red mic pill on your Zoom button when you're muted. A live waveform on Spotify when it's playing. You stop checking your Mac, because the buttons already know. Keep your favorites close Pin the decks you live in and they stay a swipe away, whatever app you're in. Trackpad gestures you know Two fingers down to minimize, two up to maximize, three across to switch spaces. Or bind any swipe to almost anything: Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, macros, jumping decks. Touch Bar, reborn Apple's Touch Bar is gone. DeckPilot brings it back as a floating glass strip on your phone. Volume, brightness, media, mic mute, a clock, and live Battery, CPU, and Memory readouts, colored to match each deck. Widgets on every screen Home Screen widgets put your top buttons one tap from anywhere. The Lock Screen widget shows your active deck without unlocking, and joins iOS 17+ StandBy on a charger. On your wrist, too A dedicated Apple Watch deck with multiple pages and real app icons. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap Mute and Play/Pause. Built-in MIDI for any DAW Faders, knobs, XY pads, velocity pads, and transport for Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and anything that speaks MIDI. Also good - Built-in AppleScript editor with ten dark themes - Auto-lock and OLED-safe auto-dim after a short idle - Share .deckpacks, browse community templates, try Demo Mode without pairing - Privacy-first. Commands stay on your Wi-Fi, nothing leaves your network Made for developers, designers, streamers, and musicians who want a faster way to drive their Mac. To unlock the full kit, DeckPilot offers an optional Pro subscription. Pro: $7.99/month or $39/year, auto-renewable. Lifetime: $79 one-time. Pro adds multi-page decks, larger grids, MIDI, macros, AppleScript, app-aware switching, multi-launch buttons, advanced gestures, Apple Watch, per-deck themes, and Shortcuts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://deckpilot.co/terms Privacy: https://deckpilot.co/privacy Support: https://deckpilot.co/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DeckPilot at 5.0 against choclift's 4.2. DeckPilot also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. choclift sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and DeckPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DeckPilot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of choclift's written reviews are positive against 100% of DeckPilot's.
choclift ships an update every 3 weeks, DeckPilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | choclift | DeckPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency | Keshav Kewlani |
Customer experience
choclift
DeckPilot
In-app purchases
choclift
- Flexible$0.997 Days
- Added Sugar7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- lifetime-subscription-v3$24.99
- Lifetime$29.99
- Lifetime$39.99
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- Lifetime Fullprice$79.99
DeckPilot
- DeckPilot Pro$7.991 Month
- DeckPilot Pro$39.001 Year
- Founding Member$79.00









