DeckPilot vs ShortcutStudio

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

ShortcutStudio is the fastest way to create, refine, and install Apple Shortcuts and Automations on iPhone, iPad, and macOS. Describe what you want to automate in plain English, and ShortcutStudio helps turn your idea into a working shortcut. You can keep refining the result with AI, or explore community-made shortcuts in the marketplace, and export directly into the Apple Shortcuts app when you're ready to run it. Features: • Create shortcuts from a simple prompt • Refine shortcut logic with AI • Browse featured and community shortcuts • Search, sort, and discover new automations • Export and open shortcuts in the Apple Shortcuts app • Save, duplicate, reorder, and manage drafts Whether you are building personal automations, productivity tools, or reusable workflows, ShortcutStudio makes shortcut creation more approachable and much faster. Some features may require an internet connection. Optional paid subscriptions may be offered for expanded usage and premium capabilities: Free: • 15 messages/day • 10 downloads/day • 5 marketplace downloads/day • 350 character input limit • Auto thinking mode Plus ($4.99/mo, $49.99/year, or $99.99 lifetime) • Force Actions • Private downloads • 50 messages/day • 50 downloads/day • 5 web searches/day • Unlimited marketplace downloads • Choose thinking mode • 1,000 character input Pro ($9.99/mo, $99.99/year, or $199.99 lifetime) • Force Actions • Private downloads • 200 messages/day • 150 downloads/day • 15 web searches/day • Unlimited marketplace downloads • Import shortcuts • Choose thinking mode • 2,500 character input Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ShortcutStudio is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc.