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.
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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SenseVoice engine. A third recognition engine — Alibaba FunASR's SenseVoice-Small — is now available in Settings. Recommended for Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean; decodes an utterance in a fraction of a second. Download it once (~227 MB) and everything runs on this iPhone.
Resumable downloads. Model downloads (both Whisper and SenseVoice) now resume after an interruption instead of restarting, with parallel connections and SHA-256 verification.
The app now opens on the tab you last used, and nearby Mac discovery only starts when you switch to Talk.
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
- Provider
- Jiayan Lin
- Size
- 53.3 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 TauTiu
