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Watch: turn your phone into a wireless mouse and keyboard in under a minute

The phone in your pocket already has a better trackpad than most laptops. WiMouse lets you point it at your computer — no dongle, no Bluetooth pairing, no cloud account.

We put the whole app into one short video. It runs for 55 seconds and shows every remote in WiMouse, recorded on a real phone connected to a real Mac over ordinary home Wi-Fi.

What the video shows

Each screen in the video is a tab in the app, so you can swipe between them while you work:

  • Precision touchpad — drag to move, tap to click, two fingers to scroll, long-press to drag. Right-click works without a second button.
  • Full keyboard — type into whatever is focused on the desktop, including the modifier keys, function keys and arrows a phone keyboard normally hides.
  • Air Mouse — hold the button and point the phone at the screen. The gyroscope drives the cursor, which is the one that makes sense from the sofa.
  • Screen View — your computer's screen, live on the phone. Tap the image to put the cursor there, pinch to zoom into something small.
  • Macro deck — your own shortcut buttons, with the correct Windows and macOS key bindings behind each one.
  • Media and system remote — play, pause, volume, track skip, plus lock, sleep, restart and shut down.
  • Presenter — next and previous slide, start and exit, mapped to the real PowerPoint and Keynote shortcuts, with a laser pointer overlay on the display you choose.
  • Browser remote, app launcher and file transfer — open a URL, cycle tabs, launch a desktop app by name, or send a file and share clipboard text between the two devices.

Setting it up takes about a minute

  1. Install WiMouse on your phone from Google Play or the App Store.
  2. Install the desktop app on your computer — from the Microsoft Store, the Mac App Store, or the direct .pkg download.
  3. Put both devices on the same Wi-Fi network. The desktop app runs quietly in the tray or menu bar.
  4. Open the phone app. Your computer appears in the list — tap it once and you are in control.

Why it stays on your own network

Every command travels directly from the phone to the computer across your local Wi-Fi. Nothing is relayed through a server, which is what keeps the cursor moving without the lag you get from cloud remote-desktop tools, and it means your keystrokes never leave the room.

The two devices agree on a key using X25519 key exchange and encrypt every command with AES-256. You can also require a password before a phone is allowed to pair, so a guest on the same network cannot connect to your machine.

Try it yourself

WiMouse is free on Android and iPhone, and the desktop app is free on Windows and macOS. The whole interface is translated into 54 languages, including all 22 official languages of India.

Download WiMouse and see how long setup really takes, or watch the demo on YouTube.