Palmrest vs Offhand Typewriter

Palmrest lets you turn your iPhone or iPad into a virtual trackpad and shortcut controller for your Mac. Connect over the local network, then use familiar gestures and customizable shortcuts to control your Mac from your desk, sofa, or any setup where a physical trackpad is not convenient. Key Features Virtual Trackpad: Use your iPhone or iPad as a wireless trackpad for your Mac. Familiar Gestures: Move the cursor, tap, double tap, secondary tap, scroll, and drag. Shortcut Panel: Quickly trigger common Mac actions such as Quit App, Close Window, switch Spaces, adjust volume, control media, and change brightness. Custom Shortcuts: Add, edit, and reorder shortcuts to match your workflow. Keyboard Input: Send text input from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac. Local Connection: Connect to the Mac client over your local network. Dark Interface: A clean, focused dark UI designed for everyday use.

Every time you open Offhand, a blank page is waiting. Write down a moment. Compose your work. Be your first reader. Here, words become Moments. Each one begins on its own, then finds its place. Move them. Reorder them. Return to them. As you keep writing, Moments grow into pages, chapters, acts, and stories. You compose with your words, and Offhand stays out of the way. Writing begins with the relationship between you and your words. Your words stay yours Everything stays on your device. Export a full backup anytime, in a single tap. Import and export Markdown, Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain, so you can bring in work you've already started and keep going. You can also open these files with Offhand straight from the Files app. Fiction and non-fiction Write dialogue. Add scene headings. Give your screenplay a cover. The same structure becomes headings and secondary text for essays, journals, and everything in between. Arrange and read • Paper colors: hold a card still to give a collection or a moment a different paper. Tap a color dot at the top of the Collection Page to filter by paper. • Views: pinch to switch between Single, Large, Small and Spines. • Search: tap Offhand at the top of the Collection Page to search your moments and collections. • Appearance: follow the system, or keep it Light or Dark. • Five languages: English, 中文, Français, Español, 日本語. On iPad and Mac • iPad: write in portrait or landscape, with Split View and Stage Manager. Collections lay out to fit your window. • Keyboard shortcuts (iPad with a keyboard, and Mac): ⌘[ goes back, ⌘] goes one level deeper. ⌘F to search, ⌘+ / ⌘− to change text size on the Writing Page, ⌘0 to reset it. • Set your page: six text sizes on iPhone and iPad, and on wider screens a narrow, medium or wide line width. On the Mac: 15 text sizes from 13 to 40, an extra-wide line width, and a choice of font (sans or serif) and line spacing (compact, standard or relaxed). • Only on the Mac: a live word count at the bottom of the Writing Page, and every shortcut in the View and Go menus. Membership Offhand Membership is a yearly subscription that unlocks the full writing experience on iPhone, iPad and Mac: • An Offhand First Edition · 2026 badge • Unlimited Moments (the free plan includes 50) • iCloud Backup: every collection and moment is saved to iCloud Drive as a plain Markdown file • Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown, Final Draft and Fountain • PNG layouts: Magazine, Moment and White on black, with no watermark • More cursor colors Offhand. Put a moment into words. Terms of Use: https://offhand.ink/terms Privacy Policy: https://offhand.ink/privacy Support: https://offhand.ink