OpenAB Remote
Private voice terminal remote
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
OpenAB Remote turns your iPhone into a private push-to-talk remote and terminal client for OpenAB Connect.
Pair with your Mac over the local network, dictate with on-device speech recognition, and send only terminal-safe text to the selected session. Import your own runtime connections from OpenAB Connect, browse live sessions, and attach directly over your own Tailscale network.
• On-device push-to-talk transcription
• Direct terminal session attach and resume
• Remembered, encrypted nearby pairing
• Explicit Auto-Enter permission
• No account, analytics, advertising, or telemetry
• Fully offline Demo Mode for evaluation
OpenAB Remote talks only to your Mac and infrastructure. Your speech, credentials, and terminal sessions are not sent to an OpenAB service.
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Swipe between sessions. Swipe in from the left or right edge of the terminal to move to the previous or next session; the order wraps around at the ends like a TV remote. A brief overlay names the connection and session (and its position, e.g. 2 / 5), and the keyboard stays exactly as you left it.
Session colours. Colour tags set on your Mac now travel with shared connections and appear in the session list and the switch overlay. Import your connections again from OpenAB Connect 1.6.1 to pick them up.
Settings. Auto-Enter (now on by default — turn it off in Settings if you prefer to press Enter yourself), microphone mode (hold to talk, or tap to start and stop) and language now live in Settings behind the gear button; Demo mode and the diagnostic log moved under Advanced.
Fixes. The Talk button no longer goes dead while a session is open in the Sessions tab, and a pairing that fails to connect now says so instead of waiting on "Confirm on your Mac".
The developer, Jiayan Lin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Jiayan Lin
- Size
- 9.1 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 TauTiu
