Control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad.
Keyboard + trackpad → macOS Screen Sharing
BoxView is built to be quick: windows keep up with your finger as you drag them, and text sharpens the moment you stop. Pair a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, even with iPhone Duo, and you work on the Mac as if you were sitting at it. It uses the Screen Sharing built into macOS, so there's nothing to install to get started.
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Set up your Mac
Free for 14 days, then a one-off £19.99. No subscription. £9.99 in launch week.
Fast while you drag, exact when you stop.
While you drag, scroll or type, BoxView asks the Mac for the same compressed picture Apple's own Screen Sharing app uses. When you stop, it fetches an exact copy of what's in view, so small text is sharp again.
Dragging a Finder window while zoomed in, with Adaptive Quality.
The same drag with exact pictures only.
Measured on an iPhone, November 2026.
Slow connections
On a slow line, lower the colour depth or have the Mac scale its picture down before sending it.
Dropped connections
Turn on Reconnect Automatically and BoxView gets back in after a drop. It also reopens your last session when you return to the app.
Bring a keyboard and a trackpad.
Pair a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad with your iPhone, and BoxView hands them to the Mac. Keys type with Command and Option where the Mac expects them, the pointer follows the trackpad, and two-finger scrolling stays smooth. It works on iPhone Duo, which has no pointer of its own: BoxView picks up the trackpad through AssistiveTouch.
Every key
Keys from a hardware keyboard go to the Mac, Command and Option included. Set key repeat to suit you, or swap ⌘ and ⌃.
A trackpad on iPhone
Move, click, right-click, drag and scroll with a Bluetooth trackpad. Turn on AssistiveTouch, and BoxView notices the trackpad by itself.
Smooth scrolling
Two-finger scrolls reach the Mac as trackpad scrolling, so pages glide instead of jumping a notch at a time like a mouse wheel.
Keyboard shortcuts
⌥⇥ opens the Quick switcher, and the toolbar can hide itself while you type on a keyboard.
Touch or Trackpad
No keyboard with you? Touch mode puts the pointer under your finger, and Trackpad mode turns the screen into a trackpad.
Mac gestures
Tap with two fingers to right-click and swipe with three for Mission Control and Spaces. The toolbar keeps Esc, Tab, the arrows and ⌘, ⌥, ⌃ and ⇧ one tap away.
Jump straight to a window.
On a desktop that spans three displays, finding one window from a phone means a lot of panning. Tap Windows in the toolbar, or press ⌥⇥ on a keyboard, and the Quick switcher lays out the Mac's windows as cards. Pick one, and the view glides to it while the Mac brings it to the front.
A preview of every window
BoxView cuts each preview from the picture it already has. BoxView Helper fills in the windows that are covered or on a display you aren't viewing.
Follow the front window
Switch apps on the Mac with ⌘-Tab, and the view moves to the window that comes forward, on whichever display it's on.
Follow the cursor
When someone moves the pointer at the Mac, the view scrolls just enough to keep it in sight.
Every display
A session opens with all of the Mac's displays in view. Pick one display, and BoxView can remember it for that Mac.
SSH or BoxView Helper
Window Jump needs one of the two: Secure Connection, which logs in over SSH (Remote Login on in the Mac's Sharing settings), or BoxView Helper. With the helper, it also finds minimised windows and windows on other Spaces.
Hear the Mac on your iPhone.
Screen Sharing sends the picture and nothing else. BoxView Helper is a small menu bar app for the Mac that adds sound, a microphone and a camera over its own encrypted link. You pair it once, with a code it shows on the Mac.
Sound
The Mac's sound plays on your iPhone. The helper picks it up before the Mac's own volume control, so the Mac can stay muted while you listen.
Microphone
Your iPhone's microphone shows up on the Mac as BoxView Microphone. Mac apps can choose it like any other input.
Camera
Your iPhone's front camera shows up as BoxView Camera, at 720p and 30 frames a second.
Window titles and previews
The helper adds minimised windows and windows on other Spaces to the list, previews covered windows, and brings forward exactly the one you pick.
Clicks you can see
A ring shows in BoxView where the person at the Mac clicks. On the Mac, a ring shows where you click, so anyone watching the screen can follow along.
BoxView shows these controls only when it finds BoxView Helper on the Mac you're connected to. Without the helper, everything else works the same. BoxView Helper runs on macOS 11 or later; Mac sound needs macOS 14.4, BoxView Camera 12.3 and window previews 14. The microphone and camera each install once from its menu: the microphone asks for an administrator password, and the camera needs turning on in System Settings.
Connect on Wi‑Fi or through SSH.
Macs with Screen Sharing on show up on BoxView's home screen when you're on the same network. Away from home, BoxView goes through an SSH server that can reach the Mac, or your VPN. There's no BoxView account and no server of ours in between.
Status on every card
Each Mac shows Online, Asleep or Not answering. Wake sends a Wake-on-LAN packet before you connect.
Log in your way
Log in as a Mac user, with a VNC password, or ask the person at the Mac to let you in.
Every step on screen
While it connects, BoxView shows each step, from finding the Mac to logging in. If one fails, it says which and offers a fix.
SSH tunnel
Use Secure Connection carries Screen Sharing inside SSH. Log in with a password, or with a key made on the phone, including one kept in the Secure Enclave.
Clipboard and files
Copy and paste text both ways. Send files and photos to the Mac's Desktop, Downloads or Documents folder, or fetch a file by its path into the Files app.
Widget, Face ID and Keychain
Put a Mac on your Home Screen and connect with one tap. Lock BoxView behind Face ID. Saved passwords stay in your iPhone's Keychain.
Help family with their Mac.
Send someone an invite link. They install BoxView Helper on their Mac, and from then on you can call them from BoxView. Their Mac rings, you talk, and once they agree you see their screen and sort the problem out together.
Their Mac asks first
BoxView Helper uses the Mac's own Screen Sharing, set so that every request needs a yes from the person at the Mac.
Talk while you help
You hear each other through your iPhone and their Mac's microphone and speakers, without a separate phone call. A ring on each screen shows where the other person clicks.
macOS 11 or later
BoxView Helper is built for macOS 11 Big Sur and later, on Intel and Apple silicon Macs, so older Macs aren't left out.
No router settings
Calls go through our relay, end-to-end encrypted, so neither of you has to open ports.
Turn on Screen Sharing.
BoxView needs Screen Sharing on the Mac, and macOS ships with it switched off. You turn it on once.
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Open the Sharing settings on the Mac
On macOS Ventura or later, choose Apple menu › System Settings, then General › Sharing. On earlier versions, choose Apple menu › System Preferences › Sharing.
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Turn on Screen Sharing
If you want to log in as yourself, check that your user is allowed under “Allow access for”.
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Connect from BoxView
With your iPhone on the same Wi‑Fi, the Mac appears on BoxView's home screen. Tap it and log in with your Mac user name and password.