Public TestFlight beta is open · All features available
Nimlet makes your iPhone a console for your own Mac. Choose an app, window or tmux pane, speak or type, and keep your coding agents moving — without walking back to your desk.
Mac companion 0.1.1 (51) · iOS 26+ and macOS 14+
Keep your tools. Add reach.
Nimlet doesn’t replace your editor, terminal or agents. The public beta opens the whole work console: trackpad controls, app switching, live windows, text and voice input, agent workflows and remote access. No purchase is needed during testing.
01 — Input
Switch between Mac apps, windows and named tmux panes. Text sent to a tmux pane arrives without raising its window; for apps, Nimlet brings the right one forward first.
Speak or type. Dictation prefers on-device recognition, with Apple’s speech service as a possible fallback.
02 — Context
Check a live preview of a Mac window, then use your phone as a trackpad. Turn on listening to hear your Mac’s system output while you’re across the room.
Capture a screenshot, mark it up and send it back as an image.
03 — Coding agents
Hooks for Claude Code and Codex tell your phone when an agent is waiting for you or has finished, and Claude Code can ask before it runs a command. You decide what to allow, from your phone.
Hooks require setup and vary by tool. Nimlet includes no AI model, hosted computer or AI subscription.
Feature diagrams are illustrative.
Connection
During the public beta, both local and remote connections are available. After initial local pairing, use your configured VPN, direct routes or the encrypted relay. No Nimlet account or hosted computer is required.
Put both devices on the same network. Choose Pair a Phone in the Mac menu and scan its one-time QR code.
Compare the displayed key. You decide which phones your Mac trusts.
Enable Away on the Mac when you want remote access. It can use a configured private VPN, direct access or Nimlet’s encrypted connect relay.
Your Mac needs to stay awake and reachable. Optional encrypted notifications use a configured relay and Apple Push Notification service. The separate connect relay forwards encrypted control traffic between your devices. Connection details
Public beta
Public testing does not divide Nimlet into Free and Pro. Local and remote access, text and voice input, live windows, agent workflows, Mac audio, messages, images and screenshot markup are all available without a purchase.
Join the TestFlight beta. Install TestFlight on your iPhone, accept the invitation and install Nimlet.
Questions
Nimlet turns your iPhone into a console for your own Mac. With the Nimlet iPhone app and a small Mac menu-bar companion, you can switch between Mac apps, windows and tmux panes, type or dictate text into the one you choose, watch a live preview of a window, use the phone as a trackpad, hear your Mac’s audio, and answer coding-agent requests — without walking back to your desk.
Yes. The Nimlet Mac companion can install hooks for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex from Settings → Agents. Both agents can tell your phone when they are waiting for you or have finished. When Claude Code wants to run a Bash command, the approval appears on your iPhone and waits for you to allow or deny it. Optional encrypted push alerts reach you while the app is in the background; an alert alone never approves anything. How agent alerts work.
Yes. Nimlet lists named tmux panes as targets alongside Mac apps and windows. Text you type or dictate goes straight into the selected pane without bringing its terminal window forward, so you can give a coding agent its next instruction from across the room. How tmux targets work.
Yes, after you pair on the same local network once. Turn on Away access on the Mac, and Nimlet can reconnect over a private VPN such as Tailscale, a direct route, or Nimlet’s connect relay. The relay forwards end-to-end encrypted traffic between your paired devices and cannot read your work. Your Mac must stay awake and running Nimlet. Remote access details.
Remote desktop apps mirror your whole Mac screen onto a small phone display. Nimlet is built around targets instead: you pick an app, a window or a tmux pane, and what you type or say lands there. When you need to see or point at something, you get a live preview of that one window and a trackpad. Compare Nimlet with other tools.
An iPhone with iOS 26 or later, and your own Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel) running the free Nimlet Mac companion. Pair both devices on the same network first. The Mac asks for Accessibility permission to control input and Screen Recording permission for previews and audio.
No Nimlet account is required. During the public TestFlight beta, every feature is available without a purchase; App Store pricing will be announced later. Nimlet includes no AI model and no AI subscription — your editor, terminal and agents keep running on your Mac.
Control traffic, text, window previews and audio travel between your iPhone and Mac over encrypted connections. Pairing uses a one-time QR code and a key you compare on both screens, and your Mac decides which phones it trusts. The Nimlet apps have no analytics or crash-reporting service. This website uses anonymous visit and download-click counters. Read the privacy policy.
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