Ask Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client for a whole page of buttons: hotkeys, scripts, apps, live numbers that update on their own. You approve every change it sends, right on your phone.
Hotkeys, app launches, system actions, shell scripts, AppleScript, Shortcuts, links and text snippets: whatever your Mac can do goes on a labelled button, one tap away from the window you’re in.
Some buttons ask first. Tap Task for an Agent…, type or dictate the job, and Claude Code or Codex starts on it in a new window or tab of your terminal, in a worktree of its own. It may commit, never push.
More wait under Ask First in the Gallery, and most work the moment you add them: Type…, To the Mac…, Ask Claude…, Ask ChatGPT…, Search…, Reminder…, Note…, Email… and Say Aloud…. Ask the Project… and To Inbox… work at once too, like Task for an Agent…: they use the folder of your last AI session and Reminders until you pick your own. Only Bug in Linear… and Bug on GitHub…, which file a bug with your project’s branch and last commit, need setting up first: a Linear key, or the project folder and the GitHub CLI.
Buttons that ask
Turn on Open with App for a page, and it comes up whenever its app comes to the front on your Mac: Figma brings its tools, Xcode its build buttons. Pin a page when you want it to stay put. Ready pages for Xcode, Figma, Fork, VS Code, Cursor, Linear and dozens more apps wait in the Gallery.
The button flashes red, and a toast names the problem with the error’s first words. Details has the rest.
An iPhone holds a grid of 4×8 buttons; a large screen, like an iPad or an unfolded iPhone Duo, holds 6×8: two more columns for buttons only large screens show. Turn it sideways and the page turns with it. Stretch a button over several cells for a gauge, the song playing or the next meeting.
iPhone and iPad share one deck through iCloud: change a page on one and it changes on the other — a smaller screen just leaves out the two extra columns.
Ready-made widgets and whole living pages wait in the Gallery. Ask your AI for what isn’t there, and write a script of your own only when you want to.
Live widgets for your CPU, memory, disk, battery, calendar, timers and the song that’s playing, handy buttons, and whole pages that come alive. Pick one and add it: there is nothing to write.
Describe the button in plain words to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client. It writes the script and the look; you tap Accept on your phone.
You, to your AI“Add a button that shows how many pull requests wait for my review, and opens them when I tap it.”
A live widget is a zsh script on your Mac: a loop that tells the button what to show. Every widget from the Gallery shows its own under Advanced, yours to read and change.
# Free disk space: GB left, checked every 10 s
# … the helpers from the docs: cell, post, json …
last="" sent_at=-100
while true; do
free=$(df -g / | awk 'NR == 2 { print $4 }')
# send a change at once, the same value every 30 s
if [[ $free != $last ]] || (( SECONDS - sent_at >= 30 )); then
title=$(json "$free GB free")
post "{\"cellId\":\"$cell\",\"title\":$title}" &&
last=$free sent_at=$SECONDS
fi
sleep 10
doneThree scenes in the Gallery’s Unusual collection turn every button of a page into one picture. Tap Add Page, and it’s your own copy to keep or take apart.
Tell Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client what you need. It writes the buttons, their scripts and live widgets, and sends the change to your iPhone or iPad as a card: each new button, the code it runs, and Accept.
Changes an AI sends through Desmaptic wait for your Accept on your iPhone or iPad.
Through Desmaptic, an AI can’t press your buttons or delete them.
How Desmaptic protects your MacWhen Claude Code needs your answer, a button on your phone turns red and names the project. A tap or your next prompt clears it.
The Desmaptic plugin connects them to your iPhone or iPad from Terminal. Describe what you need in your own words; every change still waits for your Accept on the phone.
/desmaptic:widget CPU load as a ring: the assistant finds room on your page, builds it and sends it over.claude plugin install desmaptic --marketplace desmaptic/desmaptic-plugincodex plugin marketplace add desmaptic/desmaptic-plugincodex plugin add desmaptic@desmapticIn Terminal on your Mac. Needs Desmaptic Agent running there and the app on your iPhone or iPad.
Pairing takes about a minute. No account, no cloud signup, no setup wizard.
Desmaptic for iPhone and iPad is coming soon to the App Store. No account, no signup, nothing to configure on first launch.
A tiny menubar app — free, native, lives quietly in your menu bar and stays out of the way.
Your phone finds the Mac automatically. Confirm a PIN once — that's the whole pairing.
What an AI can touch, what Desmaptic needs from your Mac, and what it costs. The rest is in the docs.
Changes an AI sends through Desmaptic wait for your Accept on your iPhone or iPad. Through Desmaptic, on its own, it can look: your profiles, pages and buttons, your apps and which one is in front, whether your startup scripts run. It can also restart a startup script that is already on your deck.
A new or changed button, page or profile arrives on the phone as a card that shows every script it runs, and nothing changes until you tap Accept. Running a command on your Mac is off until you turn on Allow AI to Run Commands, and then you allow each command. Through Desmaptic, an AI can’t press your buttons or delete them.
This covers what goes through Desmaptic. An AI app that runs commands by its own means, such as Claude Code in Terminal, follows that app’s permissions.
Docs: What the assistant can and can’t doNo. Most buttons need none: pick a type such as Launch App, Key Combination, System Action, Run Shortcut or Text Snippet, and set it up on the phone. Ready-made live widgets wait in the Gallery, and an AI app can write the rest for you.
Scripts are there for when no type does the job: zsh or AppleScript, with recipes you can copy as they are.
Docs: What a button can doClaude Desktop, Claude Code and ChatGPT / Codex connect with Connect in the agent’s AI Assistants. Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client take a config you copy from the same place.
An AI app is optional. Everything it builds, you can also build by hand on the phone.
Docs: Connect your AI appYes, through your own VPN, such as Tailscale. On the same Wi-Fi network, at home or at the office, your iPhone or iPad finds your Mac by itself. Away from home, it reaches the same Mac through the VPN once you allow it on the Mac and turn on App Lock on the phone. Either way they talk to each other directly over an encrypted connection; there is no Desmaptic server to carry a tap over the internet.
You pair once, on the same Wi-Fi, with a 6-digit code. After that, the phone reconnects by itself.
Docs: Away from homeA Mac with macOS 15 or later, and an iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later. Desmaptic Agent lives in the menu bar; it has no Dock icon.
Docs: What you needmacOS lets an app press keys and type for you only with Accessibility. Desmaptic Agent needs it for Key Combination, Text Snippet and most System Actions: the keys it presses and the text it types when you tap those buttons.
You can skip it in Setup. Those buttons then flash red with “Accessibility access needed”; Launch App, Open URL and scripts that don’t press keys work without it. You can turn it off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility.
Docs: macOS permissionsNo. Desmaptic is native to Apple devices: an agent for the Mac and an app for iPhone and iPad, which share your deck through iCloud. There is no Windows agent and no Android app.
Docs: What you needOn your devices and in your own iCloud. Your deck, with its profiles, pages, buttons and their scripts, syncs between your iPhone and iPad through your iCloud account. What your scripts remember stays in a private folder on your Mac and is never synced.
There is no Desmaptic server, no account and no analytics. If you connect an AI app, what you ask it goes to that app’s servers, under its own privacy policy.
Docs: Storage and size limits Privacy PolicyThe Mac agent is free. The iPhone and iPad app is free with two profiles and two pages in each, with every button type, live widgets and AI apps included.
Desmaptic Pro unlocks unlimited profiles and pages and lets you reorder pages: monthly, yearly or a one-time Lifetime purchase, through the App Store. A profile or page past the free plan is never deleted: it stays locked until Pro opens it.
Terms: Free and ProFree to start. Pro unlocks everything.