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.
Choose your speech engine: Apple's on-device recognition (no download), or optionally download Whisper (OpenAI, MIT) or SenseVoice (Alibaba FunASR) to run on this iPhone — SenseVoice is recommended for Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.
• 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
• Optional Whisper engine: download an open-source model once (MIT) and run it fully on-device
• Fully offline Demo Mode for evaluation
OpenAB Remote talks only to your Mac and infrastructure — plus, only if you choose the Whisper engine, a one-time model download from Hugging Face. Your speech, credentials, and terminal sessions are not sent to an OpenAB service.
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Computers. A new Computers tab shows a computer's screen on your iPhone — macOS or Linux, running oab-instance-mcp on your tailnet. It opens straight onto the last computer you viewed; swipe left or right to switch computers, pinch or double-tap to zoom. Viewing is read-only, and frames are fetched only while the screen is on display.
Import computers from your Mac. When you import connections from OpenAB Connect, the computers registered there can come along, so you don't have to type URLs and tokens on the phone. Your Mac asks first and lets you leave them out.
Give a session access to a computer. Long-press a session to let the agent inside it use a computer for 1, 2, 4, 12 or 24 hours. The grant lives on that computer, so you can put the phone away; disconnect it any time.
Version 0.5.0
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Information
Provider
Jiayan Lin
Size
54.1 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.