Apperture vs Teletype

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/

Every computer. Within reach. Your Mac, your PC and your servers in one native app for iPhone and iPad. Share your Mac’s screen in High Performance with sound, control a Windows PC with Remote Desktop, see a Linux desktop over VNC, work in a terminal over SSH or Mosh, and move files over SFTP. One connection is free, with every protocol. No account, no card, no relay. YOUR MAC, LIKE YOU NEVER LEFT • High Performance Screen Sharing on Macs with Apple silicon: hardware-decoded video up to 5K, the Mac’s own sound, and one or two virtual displays sized to your screen. • High dynamic range on iPhones and iPads whose screens can show it, so photos and video keep their highlights. • Standard sessions use Apple’s own codec, so text stays sharp. Works with macOS 26 and 27. • Copy and paste text, formatted text and images. Send files to the Mac and save files from it. • Curtain Screen keeps the Mac’s own display dark while you work. A TERMINAL THAT STAYS CONNECTED • Mosh keeps your session alive as you move between networks and through sleep. • Built on Ghostty and drawn with Metal, with 660 themes. • Split panes, snippets, Find and output export, with the keys a terminal needs right above the keyboard. • Notifications from programs on your server while the session runs in the background. YOUR PC, REMARKABLY SMOOTH • Remote Desktop to Windows Pro, Enterprise, Education and Server, with sound, microphone, clipboard and shared files. • A desktop sized to your screen, Remote Desktop Gateway and Network Level Authentication. • Review a PC’s certificate and trust it once, with a warning if it ever changes. LINUX, THE WHOLE PICTURE • VNC for Linux desktops on X11 and on Wayland, and the VNC servers you already run. • Encrypted with TLS when the server offers it, and clipboard text that keeps its accents. FILES, ONE TAP AWAY • Browse servers and NAS drives over SFTP, and preview files with Quick Look. • Upload from Files and Photos, or drag files in. Drag a file onto another folder to move it on the server. • Rename, organize and create folders on servers that allow it. REACH EVERY MACHINE • Jump hosts, port forwarding and SSH agent forwarding. • Wake-on-LAN wakes a sleeping machine before you connect. • Computers on your network appear under Nearby. KEYS THAT NEVER LEAVE YOUR DEVICE • Create an SSH key in the Secure Enclave and sign in with Face ID. Import Ed25519, ECDSA or RSA keys. • Teletype checks each server’s identity and warns you if it changes. TELETYPE PRO Unlimited connections; iCloud sync of connections, passwords, settings and themes; Picture in Picture for terminals and desktops; your own themes; and alternate app icons. The monthly and annual plans start with a 3-day free trial, or buy once for life. Every plan works with Family Sharing. Remote connections require a reachable computer with the service turned on. Teletype doesn’t provide a relay. Privacy Policy: https://teletype.sh/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/