LilPad turns your iPhone into a Mac trackpad. Click, scroll, pinch, drag windows, swipe into Mission Control — every gesture, with nothing to install on your Mac.
Your fingers on the iPhone, the pointer on your Mac. Move, click, scroll, Mission Control.
The moves your hands already know. Switch any of them off in Settings.
One finger · click
Two-finger tap
Two fingers · momentum
Pinch in & out
Rest a thumb, move a finger
Or touch & hold
Three fingers up
Three fingers sideways
LilPad uses the Screen Sharing that's already built into macOS. No helper app, no driver, no menu bar icon of ours.
Raw touches, no gesture-recognizer delay, a few bytes per movement, and a radio that stays awake while you work.
Macs with Screen Sharing on show up by themselves. Sign in once and LilPad reconnects every time you open it.
One tap hides the controls and pins the orientation. Hold to unlock, so a stray swipe never opens a menu.
Edge to edge, around the notch, in portrait or either landscape. Every point of glass is trackpad.
A cream day theme and a warm dark night theme, with haptics on every click and gesture.
Once. After that, just open the app.
On your Mac: System Settings → General → Sharing, then switch on Screen Sharing.
Put your iPhone and Mac on the same Wi‑Fi. No router around? Join your iPhone's Personal Hotspot from the Mac.
Open LilPad, tap your Mac, and sign in with your Mac username and password. It's saved in your iPhone's Keychain.
It's the one door into a Mac that needs no extra software. LilPad only sends pointer and keyboard-shortcut events through it. It never asks for your screen image, so the traffic is tiny.
iOS doesn't let apps act as a Bluetooth mouse or trackpad. Every trackpad app on the App Store works over the network for the same reason.
It's stored in your iPhone's Keychain and sent only to your Mac, encrypted with Apple's own Screen Sharing sign-in. It never goes anywhere else.
Yes, that's the idea. One thing to know: after you move the mouse, the pointer jumps back to where LilPad left it the next time you touch the iPhone.
Close. Pointer, clicks and drags feel native. Scrolling moves in small wheel steps, and Mission Control, Spaces and zoom are sent as their standard Mac shortcuts.
macOS shows a Screen Sharing icon while LilPad is connected. That's expected, and it goes away when you close the app.