Feature · Phone remote control
Move the overlay
without touching your Mac.
Your phone becomes a trackpad for a window nobody else can see. Scan the code on your Mac and the control opens in the phone's browser. Nothing to install, no account, and the connection never leaves your Wi-Fi.
A second trackpad, in your hand
Hidini has always answered to the keyboard. Global hotkeys move the overlay, resize it, hide it and fire every feature without your hand leaving the keys.
The phone adds another way in. Connect it and the whole screen becomes a second trackpad, one that drives the overlay directly rather than moving a cursor around to get at it.
It behaves like a trackpad
Landing your thumb on the pad moves nothing at all. A drag moves the window by however far your thumb travelled, from wherever it already sits, so the gesture means the same thing no matter where on the pad it starts.
That is what lets you nudge the overlay a few pixels or sweep it to the far edge of the screen without ever looking down at your hand.
What fits in your hand
The whole screen is the trackpad
Drag anywhere on your phone and the overlay moves across your Mac. It works like a trackpad rather than a map: touching it moves nothing, and a drag moves the window from wherever it already sits.
Double tap to capture
Two taps on the pad and Hidini captures your screen and sends it for analysis, the same as the camera button in the overlay toolbar.
The toolbar, on your phone
Listen, Capture, Notes, Contrast and Translucent sit across the top, and light up to show what is currently on. Prev and Next move between note groups.
Every tap answers back
A short confirmation appears for each action. Your phone cannot show you the Mac screen it just changed, so it tells you what it did instead.
Nothing to install
The control is a web page your Mac serves itself. Point the camera at the code and it opens in whatever browser the phone already has. No App Store, no account, no sign in.
Any phone, any browser
iPhone, Android, an old tablet in a drawer. If it has a camera and a browser on the same Wi-Fi, it works as a remote.
Or mirror the conversation
A dropdown at the top switches the screen from the trackpad to the whole chat: the live transcript, the answer as it is written, the code with its colours. Switch back whenever you want the pad again.
Three steps, about ten seconds
Press the phone button
It is in the overlay header, between the camera and the microphone. The pairing panel opens with a code and a QR.
Point your camera at it
Your phone offers a link the way it would for any QR code. Open it, and the remote control loads a second later, already connected.
Put the phone down and use it
Set it down wherever your hand falls. The screen stays awake for as long as the control is open, so it will not lock halfway through a call.
Your Wi-Fi, and nothing past it
The control page is part of the app. Your Mac hands it to your phone directly, over your own network, and the two talk to each other the same way for as long as the session lasts. Nothing about it reaches us, because there is nowhere for it to go: no account, no server in the middle, no record of what you pressed.
The link refuses to run over cellular, so it cannot quietly fall back to the internet if the Wi-Fi drops. The pairing code is good for one session. Close the panel and it stops working, which means an old photo of the QR code is worth nothing to anybody.
Common questions
Do I have to install an app on my phone?
No. Your Mac serves the control page itself, so it opens in the browser your phone already has. There is nothing to download, no account, and nothing left behind when you close the tab.
Does my screen sharing software see any of this?
No. The overlay stays exactly as invisible as it was, and the phone only moves it and presses its buttons. What screen sharing captures does not change.
Does the connection go through the internet?
It does not. Your phone talks to your Mac directly over your local network. There is no server of ours in the middle, Hidini sends nothing about the session anywhere, and the link refuses to run over cellular. Both devices have to be on the same Wi-Fi.
What if the camera will not scan the code?
The pairing panel also shows an address you can type into the phone browser by hand, and a six digit code to enter once the page loads. Same result, a few more seconds.
How long does the pairing code last?
One session. Close the pairing panel or quit the app and the code stops working, so an old screenshot of a QR is worth nothing later.
Can I use it on a phone with no SIM?
Yes. The connection is Wi-Fi only, so an old phone with no plan makes a perfectly good remote.
The other half of the dropdown puts the whole conversation on the phone. See the phone screen mirror, or the full tour of everything Hidini can do.
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macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon and Intel