Punte lets you see and control your Mac from an iPhone, an iPad, another Mac, a Windows PC or an Android device. The picture goes straight from your Mac to your device, over your home network or your own VPN. No cloud, no accounts.
punte /ˈpun.te/ · Romanian for a small bridge, the kind that crosses from one bank to the other.
There is nothing to sign up for. Your devices recognise each other by their own keys, exchanged once when you pair them.
A small menu bar app. It asks macOS for the permissions it needs in one window, then listens only while you tell it to.
Choose Pair New Device… on the Mac, then scan the QR code or type the code. It lasts two minutes and works once.
Tap Connect and your Mac's screen appears, with its sound. Your touches, trackpad and keyboard control it.
Your desktop, your apps, your files, as they are on the Mac. The controls fold into a small ball at the edge, out of the way.
Windows already has a good remote desktop. The Mac didn't, so Punte does one thing: it brings your Mac to every other screen you use.
When your Mac is locked, sign in through macOS's own Screen Sharing, carried inside Punte's encrypted connection.
Pick a resolution made for your screen, Retina sizes included. The Mac always switches back when you leave.
Hardware HEVC or H.264 at 30 fps by default, 60 fps when you want it, with a bitrate that adapts to your network.
Hear your Mac. Copy on one side, paste on the other, text and images, in both directions.
Type the characters your device's layout makes, even on a Mac set to another one. Or send physical keys.
Mutually authenticated TLS 1.3 with pinned identities, keys in the Secure Enclave, and no server anywhere.
Most remote desktops route you through their servers and ask you to make an account. Punte has neither. Your device connects to your Mac's address on your network, or through a VPN you already run.
No relay, no sign-in service, no update ping. Nothing has to stay online for Punte to keep working.
No email, no password with us. Pairing is a code on your Mac's screen, compared by you.
No analytics or advertising code in the apps. This website asks before it measures anything.
Both ends prove who they are with keys pinned at pairing. A different key is refused, with no "continue anyway".
Runs in the menu bar of the Mac you want to reach. Free.
The app you connect from, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Android. Free to try, with Punte Pro as a one-time purchase.
The Mac is always the one you connect to. Every other device connects to it.
iPadOS 26 or later. Pointer lock with a trackpad or mouse, Apple Pencil, hardware keyboards.
App StoremacOS 26 or later. One Mac controls another, in tabs or windows. Same purchase as on iPhone and iPad.
App StoreWindows 11. Tabs, full screen, and your PC keyboard's characters on the Mac.
Microsoft StoreThe Mac you reach needs macOS 26 or later and Punte Host.
No subscription. Punte Pro is a single purchase that removes the limits.
Install Punte Host on the Mac and Punte on your iPad or iPhone. On the Mac, choose Pair New Device… and scan the QR code or type the code on your device, approve it on the Mac, then tap Connect. Your Mac's screen appears with its sound, and you control it by touch, trackpad or keyboard.
Yes. Punte for Windows 11, from the Microsoft Store, opens your Mac in a window or full screen, with its sound, the clipboard both ways and your PC keyboard's characters.
Punte connects directly to your Mac's address, so it works on your home network and from anywhere through a VPN you already run, such as WireGuard or Tailscale. It has no relay servers of its own, by design.
No. There is no sign-up and no server. Your devices recognise each other by keys exchanged once, when you pair them.
Yes. When the Mac is locked, Punte hands over to the Mac's own Screen Sharing, carried inside Punte's encrypted connection, so you can sign in from your device. You turn this on in Punte Host's settings.
Punte Host on the Mac is free. The Punte app is free with sessions of up to 10 minutes and one saved Mac. Punte Pro is a one-time purchase, €14.99 on Apple for iPhone, iPad and Mac together, for sessions of any length and any number of Macs.
Punte is made for reaching a Mac from other kinds of devices. It fits the Mac's resolution to your screen, streams hardware-encoded video with sound, handles touch, trackpads and keyboard layouts, and opens no VNC port on your network.
On the device you connect fromStore links open here when the listings go live.