Coast: Macros & Trackpad

Build your own controller

Free · In‑App Purchases

Coast turns your iPhone or iPad into a control surface for your Mac. Build your own decks of controls: buttons, sliders, dials, jog wheels, and joysticks, placed exactly where you want them. Open a full-screen trackpad with a keyboard. Or point the phone at your desk and it moves the cursor like an optical mouse. Everything talks to your Mac over your own Wi-Fi, and nothing leaves your network. CONTROL DECKS YOU DESIGN Lay out screens of controls yourself: buttons, sliders, a jog wheel, a D-pad, a numpad, gesture pads, and about forty more widgets. Make a deck for Photoshop, a deck for editing, a deck for your studio. Decks can open automatically when their Mac app comes to the front. A REAL TRACKPAD AND KEYBOARD A full-screen pointer with a remote keyboard, whenever you need it. COAST PRO One in-app purchase unlocks the full toolkit: - Macros: chain Mac actions with real logic, if/else, loops, and waits, into a single tap - Screen mirror: your Mac, live on your phone - Drawing and a laser pointer for presenting - Air mouse and a 3D wand for orbiting 3D viewports - The Apple Watch app - iCloud sync across your devices PRIVATE BY DESIGN Coast runs over your local Wi-Fi. Pointer movement, screens, and controls stay on your own network, and are never stored or sent to us. Coast needs its free companion app running on your Mac. Download it at coast.masn.studio.

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Decks you can build from either end. A deck now holds nineteen display items beside the controls: clock, date, text, image, shape, icon, bar, ring, number, gauge, sparkline, status light, list, Mac status, pinned window and script output. Lay them out freely, with align, distribute, layer, multi-select and undo, on the phone or in the Mac's own deck editor. Eleven themes, and a CSS layer with a documented vocabulary if you would rather style a deck by hand. Ghost. Pin one Mac window to the phone and it fills the screen in the right proportions, with your touches landing in the window. Or give the Mac a second screen: a software display it treats like a monitor, with rotation, and switches for the Dynamic Island and the rounded corners. The cable. Plug the phone into a paired Mac and Coast offers to run over USB, at a 0.46 ms round trip, with Wi-Fi held warm behind it so unplugging falls back within a tick. Bluetooth is still there for when Wi-Fi is not. Twenty-three preset decks, every shortcut checked against the app maker's own documentation: Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve, Logic, Xcode, VS Code, Terminal, Figma, Blender, Photoshop, Lightroom, Keynote, Safari, Finder and more. Coast speaks Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and French, and follows iOS's per-app language setting. Also in this release: a four-tab layout with Settings one tap from anywhere, a Settings window on the Mac in the native style, a rebuilt trackpad photo editor with pinch, pan and an Apple-style ruler, a System tab that grew from thirteen tiles to thirty-four, timers and triggers for macros, an optional door for AI assistants that is off by default, and a fix for the false "Wi-Fi stopped answering" notice when you return to the app.

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    Seller
    LeShan Chen
    Size
    28.4 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 4 more
    • English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 LeShan Chen