First Screenshots of the BTT iPhone Remote

Aug 31

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BTT Remote has now been released to the iOS App Store! See http://bttremote.com. The screenshots below are no longer accurate!

The app can always be controlled with one hand, all actions etc. can be triggered with your thumb. It’s not a trackpad / mouse replacement but rather a nice remote control for your Mac. I’m already using it a lot to e.g. open movies while lying in bed but it would also be suited for e.g. presentations or to browse the internet while your Mac is connected to a TV.

Also I’m currently adding some special features for some apps

This is the main view, here you can see all apps for which you have configured Remote Actions in BetterTouchTool. Also there are buttons on the bottom to open various views.

Tapping on a configured app brings you to the configured actions for this app. Below the app specific actions the global actions are shown.

Swiping to the right (from anywhere in the app) opens a view with some common keyboard actions (brightness is there twice for people with external monitors, so you can change the brightness of both display independently). Tapping on “Tap to use keyboard” opens the standard iPhone keyboard, which allows you to type anything you want. Also the empty bottom area of this view can be used as trackpad to move your mouse cursor and click/scroll.

Swiping to the left (from anywhere in the app) opens the trackpad view, it’s only purpose is to allow you to move your mouse, scroll and click.

This view opens after tapping the “Running Apps” button in the first view shown above. It shows you all GUI applications that are currently running on your Mac.

Each of those apps offers those actions:

This view opens after tapping the “Menubar” button in the first view shown above. It allows you to access the current menubar from your Mac, you can trigger all menu items even if you don’t have any explicit actions configured for an app.

This is the file browser, which allows you to open any file or app on your mac. So e.g. while lying on the couch you can open a movie (or anything else) on your iMac. The first folders it shows are your Finder favorites.

written by Andreas Hegenberg

10 Responses to “First Screenshots of the BTT iPhone Remote”

1. Josh Says:
August 31st, 2012 at 7:53 pm
What bothers me most about buttons on the iPhone is how closely they’re packed to each other when they don’t have to be. If you’ve ever went to pause a podcast and accidentally skipped through the whole thing because you hit the skip forward button you know what I’m talking about.
2. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
August 31st, 2012 at 8:00 pm
@Josh the tappable area of the buttons is actually bigger than the buttons are, and during my testing I didn’t hit the wrong buttons. But for people who dislike the button concept, you can also configure all those action in the midle tableview (first and second screenshot)
3. Nipun Goel Says:
September 1st, 2012 at 2:54 am
Not sure if this is possible, but would we be able to configure the trackpad view? i.e. can we use our BTT gestures in the trackpad view of BTT iPhone Remote?
4. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
September 1st, 2012 at 11:20 am
@Nipun unfortunately the first version won’t allow this. Unfortunately the delay while sending stuff over wlan is too long to just forward the touch events to BetterTouchTool, thus I’d need to do the gesture recognition on the iPhone. I’ll probably add this sometime in the future though. Maybe I’ll add some basic gestures like three finger swipes or three finger taps for now.
5. Nipun Goel Says:
September 1st, 2012 at 10:39 pm
@Andreas
I see.
just the basic ones will also be helpful!

Thanks!
6. hegel394 Says:
September 7th, 2012 at 1:18 am
after playing around with the first beta, i must say
“It’s AWESOME, i love it” Already the best tool available to control your mac with your iPhone. Thank you so much for your tools. The only issue i recognized, was that your firewall has to be diabled to connect your iphone to your mac.
7. yoo hee kyung Says:
September 9th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
BTT
8. Ron Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Hi,

I have a jailbroken iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1, is there any chance you can send an*.IPA file for me to test it?

Thanks!
9. Robin Otter Says:
October 7th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Hi,

Firstly, I am really looking forward to this. There are so many apps out there that claim to do this, but really don’t.

There is one feature i’d really appreciate, especially when browsing the web on my TV: zoom. When browsing safari on a large display with high resolution, text is almost impossible to see. What would be great is to be able to integrate Safari’s new smooth zooming into a mobile app like this, similar to when pinching on a standard trackpad. This is something missing from other remotes ive used, and I think it would be great!

Thanks for your continued amazing updates to BTT, and for all the features that I now take for granted. A truly great app.

Regards,
Robin
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