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I build MightyMouse. These are the things I have worked out along the way.

I make MightyMouse, a Mac app that pairs your iPhone to your computer as a trackpad and a microphone, and transcribes what you say on your own machine instead of sending it to a server.

Everything on this blog comes out of building that. When something surprises me, or takes me a week to work out, I write it down here so the next person spends an afternoon on it instead.

I write these myself and I check the claims against the code before they go up. If something here is wrong, I would genuinely like to know.

Everything I have written

• an open source Wispr Flow alternative Wispr Flow is good. It is also closed, and it sends your voice to a server. If you want to read the code behind the thing that hears you, you have options.
• an open source Conductor alternative Conductor is joining Meta and you want your parallel agents somewhere you can read the code. Here is the one that is free and MIT, and where it falls short.
• Conductor alternatives Conductor is joining Meta and its Cloud is closing. Here is where people are heading, and what each choice gives you.
• Migrate from Conductor Conductor Cloud is going away, and you do not want to start every project from a blank chat.
• A Conductor iOS app alternative If you steered your coding agents from the Conductor iPhone app, the date to plan around is November 20.
• Is Conductor shutting down You read that Conductor is joining Meta. Here is what ends, what does not, and when.
• Keep working when you hit your Claude limit You are halfway through a job and Claude says you are out. You have another plan sitting right there, unused.
• Control your Mac from an Android phone The guides for this are almost all about iPhone. An Android phone can drive the Mac too, and it does not need its own app.
• Use your iPhone as a mouse for your Mac The trackpad on the Mac is dead, or you are across the room. You searched for a mouse. Apple did not ship one.
• Local Whisper on a Mac You want the words, and you do not want the recording to leave the computer to get them.
• Voice typing on a Mac You learned the phrase on Windows or in Google Docs. On a Mac the same job has a different name, and a couple of traps.
• Control your iPhone from your Mac This is the Mac driving the phone: your iPhone screen in a window on your desktop, tapped with your trackpad and typed into with your Mac keyboard. Apple builds it in, and it is called iPhone Mirroring.
• Best app to control a Mac from an iPhone Most lists rank these apps as if they all do the same job. They do not. The first question is whether you need to see your Mac's screen on the phone, and the answer splits the field in two.
• Mirror your Mac to your iPhone Every guide for this search is about the opposite direction. You want your Mac on your phone, and Apple has no button for it.
• Use your iPhone as a second monitor for your Mac You have a spare screen in your pocket and a Mac that could use one more. Apple will not connect them for you, so the real question is which app does it well enough to be worth the trouble.
• Use a Mac mini without a monitor A Mac mini is a small box that works fine with nothing plugged into it. The hard part is the first hour, and the day it goes to sleep and you cannot find it.
• Wake a Mac remotely You are away from your Mac, it went to sleep, and now you cannot reach it. Waking it from afar is possible in a narrow set of cases. For everything else, the answer is to stop it sleeping before you leave.
• Claude Code notifications on your phone Claude Code is at its best when you walk away from it. The problem is it never tells you when it is done, or when it has been sitting on a question for twenty minutes.
• Run Whisper locally on your Mac You want Whisper on your own Mac, with no upload and no per-minute bill. The catch is that most guides skip the step that actually trips you up: Whisper reads files, it does not type into your apps.
• Wispr Flow vs Superwhisper Both let you talk instead of type, in any app. They disagree on the one thing that matters most: whether your voice leaves your computer. Every fact below comes from each company's own pages, read in October 2026.
• Talk to Claude Code with your voice You type the same long paragraph to your coding agent twenty times a day. You could say it in a third of the time.
• SSH from iPhone to Mac Most guides stop at "type your password into an app". Here is the whole path: setup, keys, a session that survives your phone locking, and getting in from outside your house without opening your router to the world.
• Use your iPhone as a presentation remote for your Mac You are about to present from your Mac and you would rather walk the room than stand next to it. Your iPhone is in your pocket. Whether it can click the slides depends on which app the slides are in.
• Claude Code on a Mac mini A Mac mini is a cheap way to give Claude Code a machine that never closes its lid. The setup is short. The part people get wrong is what happens after you walk away from it.
• Claude Code Remote Control not working You typed the command, and your phone shows nothing, or the session was there a minute ago and now it is gone. Almost every case comes down to four causes.
• Every AI model and service in one account Building something with AI usually means signing up for six tools, pasting keys into five of them, and losing an afternoon before anything works.
• MightyMouse vs Lovable Both let you describe what you want and get software back. The difference is where the result lives and what happens when you outgrow it.
• MightyMouse vs Codex cloud A cloud coding agent works while you are away from your desk. The question is what else comes with it, and what you give up.
• MightyMouse vs ChatGPT Plus The $20 subscription most people already have is ChatGPT. Here is what the same money buys somewhere else, and what you would miss.
• How to build an iOS app without a Mac Most guides say you need a Mac to make an iPhone app. For the writing part and the build part, you do not.
• Control your Mac from your iPhone People search "control mac from iphone" wanting four different things: see the whole screen from across the world, a trackpad in the same room, Apple's own accessibility tool, or something in between. Here is which one is actually yours.
• Use your iPhone as a trackpad for your Mac Your Mac trackpad just died, or you are three feet from your desk and do not want to walk over. Your iPhone is right there. Apple gives you no way to use it as a trackpad.
• Use your iPhone as a keyboard for Mac You want to type on your Mac from across the room, and your iPhone is right there in your hand.
• Use your iPhone as a microphone for your Mac Your Mac has a mic, or it does not, and either way "use my iPhone as a mic" can mean two different things.
• Mac dictation not working, fixed You hold the key, you talk, and nothing appears. Or it worked yesterday and stopped today. The fix depends on which one is actually happening.
• The best dictation app for Mac Every "best dictation app" list gives you one winner. The honest answer depends on what you are trying to do.
• Speech to text on your Mac Mac has had speech to text built in for years, but the setup screen does not tell you the shortcut, which voice commands are real, or where your words actually go.
• Claude Code on iPhone Search "claude code on iphone" and you get a pile of guides for third-party tools, most written before Anthropic shipped its own answer.
• Codex from your phone You start Codex on something and walk away from your desk. Then you want to check on it, or answer its one question, from your phone.
• Cursor from your phone You want to check on a Cursor agent, or keep it going, without sitting at your desk. The first question is whether Cursor even has a phone app for that.
• Connect Ray-Ban Meta to a laptop Ray-Ban Meta glasses are built to pair with your phone. Whether they pair with the laptop sitting next to it is a different question, and the answer depends on what you are trying to do with them once connected.
• Use OpenClaw from your phone OpenClaw answers you in WhatsApp or Telegram. It still runs on your Mac, and the moment it needs something only your Mac has, your phone is stuck outside.
• Use Hermes Agent from your phone Hermes Agent remembers what it learns. It does not, yet, have a way to reach you when you are not at the keyboard.
• Check on Paperclip from your phone Paperclip does not run continuously. It wakes on a schedule, does a batch of work, and goes quiet again - often while you are nowhere near your Mac.
• Run any terminal AI agent from your phone Every few weeks a new AI agent launches that runs on your own machine instead of someone else's server. Every single one has the same gap: no phone app.
• Approve an agent from your lock screen An agent that stops to ask you something is not slow. It is just waiting for a person who is not there yet.
• Dictate anywhere on your Mac Talking is about three times faster than typing. The catch has always been where your voice goes to become text.
• Run coding agents from your phone The problem with a coding agent is not that it is slow. It is that it stops, and you are not at the desk.
• Why dictation breaks over SSH It works in Mail. It works in Slack. You SSH into a server, start talking, and nothing arrives.
• Hands-free dictation on your Mac Push-to-talk dictation has a hidden requirement: a hand free to hold the key down. The moment your hands are full, or you are pacing around thinking out loud, that requirement is the whole problem.
• Use Meta Ray-Ban Display with your Mac Out of the box the glasses talk to your phone, not your computer. That is the gap this closes.
• Sidecar for iPhone The short answer is no, and no setting will change it. The longer answer is that the thing people actually want is still possible.

MightyMouse turns your iPhone into a trackpad and microphone for your Mac, and transcribes your voice on your own machine.