MacLatch
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Your Mac. Within reach.

See and control your Mac from your iPhone.

MacLatch connects to the Screen Sharing already built into macOS, so the Mac at home or at the office is on the phone in your pocket. Answer the password prompt, click Update, close the stuck dialog.

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Watch it work 0:24

Open source. The official app is the convenient way to install it.

A Mac desktop where Terminal waits at a sudo password prompt.
MacLatch on an iPhone showing the same password prompt on the Mac's screen.
Real captures: MacLatch connected to a test Mac.

See it work

A quick look at MacLatch.

Find a Mac, choose how to reach it, save it, then answer its password prompt from your iPhone.

Real screens Captured from MacLatch and a test Mac. Not a recording.
Watch step 4 in motion

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The easiest way to get started. The official app saves you building and signing it yourself, and helps fund ongoing maintenance.

Free download · seven-day trial you start yourself · then $9.99 once

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Explore the source

MacLatch is open source under the MIT license. Build it yourself, inspect the code and make it your own.

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An independent tool by Eugene Aarons.

I'm a product leader, AI builder and maker. I built MacLatch for my own Macs, and I maintain it myself.

MacLatch in 24 seconds

A coding agent on a Mac is asked to unpack an archive, and macOS asks for the archive's password, which the agent cannot type. MacLatch opens that Mac's screen on an iPhone over an SSH tunnel, marked "Encrypted — SSH tunnel". The password is typed on the iPhone's keyboard, Return is pressed, the prompt closes, and the agent lists what was in the archive. Recorded from MacLatch, a test Mac and Claude Code, silent and at real speed, with the waits between steps cut.