Mini Keyboard vs MouseMe

Your Mac has no printed keys for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian or Hindi. Your iPhone does — and you already type on it all day. Mini Keyboard lets your Mac borrow it. Type on your phone and the characters appear on your Mac as you type them. Not when you press Enter. Not after a Send button. Switch scripts mid-sentence the way you already do on your phone, and whatever your iPhone keyboard can produce, your Mac receives. TYPING, IN ANY SCRIPT • Characters travel as text rather than as key codes, so scripts that need an input method — Japanese, Chinese, Korean — arrive composed and correct, as you type them. • Right-to-left scripts behave the way they do on your phone. • Command, Control, Option and Shift chords, plus Tab, Esc, Return, Delete and the arrow keys. Shortcuts land as real shortcuts, resolved through the keyboard layout your Mac is actually set to, so Command-Q is where your layout puts it rather than where a US layout would. • Emoji and dictation go across too. If your iPhone keyboard can produce it, your Mac receives it. AND A TRACKPAD, RIGHT WHERE THE KEYS ARE Pull it up over the keyboard when you need to put the caret somewhere before you can start typing. The trackpad is free, like the typing. • Tap to click, with left and right buttons always on screen for when you would rather not tap. • Two-finger scroll, and a two-finger tap for right-click. • Tap-and-a-half to drag, plus a drag-lock toggle so a long drag does not have to be one stroke. • A full-screen mode that turns the whole phone into travel. It is there so the typing works without reaching over to the Mac. There are no volume or playback keys and nothing is mirrored to the phone — this is a keyboard, not a media remote. YOUR OWN KEYS, ABOVE THE KEYBOARD (MINI KEYBOARD PRO) A row of keys you define, sitting above the keyboard on your phone. Each one sends a keystroke or a piece of text to your Mac — nothing else, because that is all a key can do. • Chords as a single tap: ⌘⇧4 for a screenshot, ⌘⌥Esc to force quit, ⌘⇥ to switch apps. • Snippets you type often — an address, a sign-off, a shell command — in any script, multi-line. • Presets for a numpad and for navigation keys, and pages, so a coding deck and a writing deck can both exist. Six keys on one page are free. Mini Keyboard Pro removes the limits — unlimited keys and pages — and adds the presets. It is a single one-time purchase ($4.99 in the US store), never a subscription. PAIRING TAKES ABOUT TEN SECONDS Open the Mac app, point your phone at the QR code in its menu-bar popover, and you are paired. The code carries a 160-bit secret, the connection is encrypted, and the pairing is bound to that one Mac, so a code scanned on your machine cannot be replayed against someone else's. If you would rather not point a camera at your own screen, the same code can be typed instead. PRIVATE BECAUSE THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO Everything stays on your local Wi-Fi. No account, no sign-up, no server, no cloud. Nothing you type is stored, logged, or sent anywhere except the Mac you paired with. No ads, no subscription, no tracking. Typing and the trackpad are free forever; the only thing for sale is Mini Keyboard Pro, once. TWO THINGS TO KNOW FIRST 1. You need the Mac half. Mini Keyboard for Mac is a separate free download on the Mac App Store. This app cannot type into a Mac without it. 2. Both devices have to be on the same Wi-Fi network. It does not work over the internet or over cellular — nothing is relayed through a server, because there is no server. The Mac app also needs one permission. macOS files "send key presses" under Privacy & Security › Accessibility, which is a confusing place to find a keyboard. The Mac app asks for that permission, explains it in plain language the first time you open it, and uses it for nothing else. It does not read your screen and it does not record what you type. Mini Keyboard first shipped in 2014. Version 2.0 is a complete rebuild.

MouseMe turns your iPhone or iPad into a wireless trackpad, keyboard, media remote, and TV controller for your Mac — over your local Wi‑Fi. No subscription, no account, and no data sent to our servers. GET STARTED 1. Install MouseMe on your Mac and iPhone (same app on both). 2. On your Mac, open MouseMe and turn on Receiving. Grant Accessibility when macOS asks — this lets MouseMe move the cursor and type. 3. On your iPhone, open Connect and tap your Mac under Computers nearby. 4. Use the Mouse tab to move and click, or switch to Keyboard, Media, or TV. MOUSE MODES • Trackpad — glide to move, tap to click, two-finger scroll • Classic Mouse — left, right, and middle buttons plus scroll • Air Mouse — aim with your phone in the air • Desk Slide — lay the phone flat and slide it on your desk • Gaming — high sensitivity with extra buttons • Presenter — next/previous slide controls and pointing KEYBOARD & MEDIA • Full keyboard with modifier keys sent to your Mac • Media controls for volume, brightness, and playback TV REMOTE • Control a Roku TV on your network through your Mac • Multiple layouts including Universal, Apple TV, Roku, and Simple • Find TVs automatically on your Wi‑Fi CONNECTION • Automatic discovery on the same Wi‑Fi (Bonjour) • Manual IP entry and QR code pairing • Optional Bluetooth when Wi‑Fi is unavailable PRIVACY All input stays on your local network between your phone and Mac. MouseMe does not collect or sell your data. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone or iPad with iOS/iPadOS 26.2 or later • Mac with macOS 26.2 or later on the same Wi‑Fi network • Local Network permission on iPhone (for discovery) • Accessibility permission on Mac (to control cursor and keyboard) Perfect for your desk, the couch, or presentations — your phone becomes a portable mouse and keyboard for the Mac you already own.