Is my screen private?

The relay carries only signaling and never sees your screen. Your screen, shell, and files stay sealed end to end, encrypted with a certificate pinned to your Mac.

Do I need port-forwarding or a static IP?

No. Homelatch needs no port-forwarding, no static IP, and no account on the Mac. It works over cellular and behind NAT because the Mac only ever dials out.

Can I control several Macs from one laptop?

Yes. Every plan covers all your personal Macs. Keep each machine where it belongs, on its own network, with its own logins, and reach any of them from one light laptop.

How much does Homelatch cost?

There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card. After that it is 6 US dollars per month, 49 per year, or 99 once for lifetime access. Every plan covers all your personal Macs.

Reach your own Mac. Privately.

Your Mac doesn't move. You do.

Q: Is my Mac exposed to the internet?

No. Your Mac never opens an inbound port. It only reaches out. A reachable address exists only during a session you start, gated by a per-session key, then closes. Idle, there is nothing for a scanner to find.

See its screen, run its shell, and move its files from your laptop or iPhone. The whole machine you left at home, reachable only by you, and invisible to everyone else.

Free for 14 days, no card to start. No password, ever: we email you a one-tap link to sign in.

The difference

Reachable by you. Invisible to everyone else.

Homelatch is built around one idea: your Mac should answer to you, and stay a black hole to everyone else.

Dark by default

Nothing to find

Your Mac never opens an inbound port. When you are not in a session, there is nothing listening and nothing for a scanner to knock on. It reaches out. It is never reachable in.

Only you

Open now, for you

A reachable address exists only while you are using it, gated by a per-session key tied to your account. Leave the session and it closes behind you.

Nothing in our cloud

The relay stays blind

The relay only helps your devices find each other. It never sees a pixel, a keystroke, or a file. Your screen stays sealed end to end, all the way to your Mac.

What you get

Your whole Mac. Screen, shell, and files.

Not a stripped-down cloud desktop. The real machine, exactly as you left it.

The screen

See your Mac live and drive it with full mouse and keyboard, from another Mac or your iPhone. It shares your real session. Nobody gets logged out. Nothing is disturbed.

full pointer and keyboard control
text clipboard, both directions
dial the quality down to save data
shares the live desktop, never hijacks it

The shell

A real terminal into your Mac over SSH. Key based, with no password to type. Off by default; you turn it on per Mac when you want it.

full SSH terminal, key auth only
opt in, the screen works without it
a true terminal, Nerd Font ready

The files

Move files to and from your Mac over the very same sealed connection. Browse its folders, pull down what you need, push up what you have.

browse, download, and upload
rides the encrypted channel, no new exposure
nothing extra to set up

Screen and shell on Mac and iPhone. File transfer from the Mac app today.

Made for the way you actually work

One light laptop. Every machine you own.

The traveler

Leave the heavy one home

The Mac Studio stays under your desk. You carry the Air. Reach the big machine at full power from a café, a hotel, or a plane seat.

The multi-Mac life

A machine per job, none in your bag

A work Mac, a client's Mac, your own Mac. Keep each where it belongs, on its own network, with its own logins. Reach all of them from one laptop.

The developer

Your real workstation

Its licenses, its IP address, its local services, its 128 gigs of RAM. Not a thin cloud box. The exact machine you build on every day.

How far the reach goes

It can even be your camera.

The connection runs deep enough to carry more than your screen.

A woman on a video call from the beach. Her camera, mic, and the real meeting run on her Mac back home, linked to her laptop.

You Mac end-to-end encrypted

Homelatch Camera and Microphone

Walk into the meeting on your Mac.

Start a call on the Mac at home and step into it from anywhere. Your camera and microphone become virtual devices its meeting apps pick like any webcam. The room sees your face and hears your voice, and their audio comes back to you. Zoom, Meet, and Teams. No other Mac app does this.

Camera Microphone

How the privacy actually works

The relay is a switchboard, not a window.

Most remote-desktop tools route your screen through their servers. Homelatch doesn't. The relay only passes the signal your two devices need to find each other. From there, your screen, shell, and files travel sealed end to end, encrypted with a certificate pinned to your Mac, not a shared authority.

Unsealed on your MacThe encryption is unwrapped on your own devices, not on our server. What crosses the network is sealed traffic no one on the path can read.

Open only to you, only nowA reachable address exists only during a session you start, gated by a per-session key. Idle, there is nothing open at all.

Native and notarizedReal Mac apps, signed and notarized by Apple. No browser plugin, no kernel hack, no daemon phoning home.

The usual way

your pixels cross a vendor's cloud
you open a port in your firewall
a static IP or dynamic DNS to keep alive
an account to create on every machine

Homelatch

sealed end to end, the relay sees only signaling
no inbound port on your Mac, ever
nothing to forward, no static IP
adopt a Mac with a single code

Built like a Mac app should be

The trust is in the engineering.

Native and notarizedReal Mac apps, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Verified updatesUpdates install only if signed by Homelatch and checked against a pinned identity.

SSH off by defaultThe shell is opt in, per Mac. The screen works without it.

Per-session keysEvery session is gated by a fresh key tied to your account.

Pinned to your MacEncryption uses a certificate unique to your machine, not a shared authority.

No passwordsSign in with a one-tap email link or with Apple. Nothing to leak.

Nothing to forwardNo port-forwarding, no static IP, no account on the Mac itself.

Yours to deleteDelete your account and your data is gone from our servers.

Set up in two minutes

Install, enter a code, done.

Install on your Mac

A tiny menu-bar app.

Run it on the Mac you want to reach. It sets itself up and shows a short code.

WXYZ-4823

Enter the code

Sign in, type it in.

Go to homelatch.app/activate on any device and enter the code. Your Mac joins your account.

Reach it anywhere

It's already there.

Open Homelatch on your laptop or iPhone. Your Mac is in the list. Connect.

Simple pricing

One price. All your Macs.

Start free for 14 days, no card. Then keep whichever plan fits.

Monthly

$6 /mo

Month to month. Cancel anytime.

Best value Yearly

$49 /yr

Just over $4 a month. Save 32%.

Lifetime

$99 once

Pay once. Yours for good.

Every plan includes every feature and covers all your personal Macs.

Get your Mac within reach.

Free for 14 days, then from $4 a month, or $99 once. Sign in and we'll have you set up in about two minutes.