Alfred Remote is your personal command centre for Alfred for Mac. Your iPhone or iPad now becomes the perfect day-long companion to your Mac, giving you instant access to your favourite features, commands and workflows.
Alfred Remote needs to be on the same network as your Mac. Alfred 4 is recommended for the broadest range of features and best experience. Alfred 3.8.6 is the minimum requirement.
Alfred 4 for Mac is available from https://www.alfredapp.com/
WHAT CAN I DO WITH REMOTE?
With a single touch on your iOS device, you can control many Alfred actions on your Mac, including:
- Show Alfred on your Mac
- System Commands: Lock, restart, shut down, log out or sleep your Mac, eject all devices, quit all apps and empty trash
- Launch Applications and System Preferences on your Mac
- Open files and folders you've defined on your Mac
- Open websites and bookmarks, or pop up Alfred with a custom search filled in
- Replace hard to remember hotkey combinations and keywords with icons on iOS
If you're an Alfred 4 or Alfred 3 Powerpack user, you can control Powerpack features, such as:
- Quickly paste user-defined clipboard snippets into text fields and documents on your Mac
- Run user-defined scripts, AppleScripts and terminal commands
- Music.app on your Mac: Play, skip, even start playing random albums
- Connecting Remote to your favourite Alfred workflows gives almost limitless possibilities!
SETTING UP REMOTE
1. Ensure that your Mac and iOS device are on the same network
2. Open Alfred's Remote preferences on Mac and select 'Add iOS Remote'
3. Open Alfred Remote on iOS to the 'Add' screen, "Looking for Alfred"
4. Select your Mac when you see it appear on iOS, then type the passcode on your Mac
Your Mac and iOS device will now be securely connected, and the power of Alfred will be at your fingertips, making you even more productive!
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Alfred Remote is a counterpart app which requires Alfred on Mac, and the ability to connect to it from your iPhone/iPad over Wi-Fi.
- Alfred Remote is available for iPhone & iPad on iOS 12+
- Alfred 4 is recommended for the best experience and new features. Minimum requirement is Alfred 3.8.6 on macOS 10.9+ on your Mac
- You'll need the ability to connect both your Mac and your iOS device to the same network through wired or Wi-Fi connection
- To control Alfred's Powerpack actions, you'll need the Powerpack for Alfred on your Mac
Take a look at https://www.alfredapp.com/ for more details about Alfred for Mac and Alfred Remote.
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Is Alfred Remote free?
Yes, Alfred Remote is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Alfred Remote legit?
⚠️ The Alfred Remote app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
I am a big fan of Alfred for Mac. I'm using it all the time with workflows, shortcut keys, applescript and bash automations it is purely one of the best apps for OS X.
However this remote app is something completely different like the bicycle man in the world full of supermans. It is using wifi only, several functions are unuseable for me while an overall volume +/- function is missing. Wifi stops working when I connect to my corporate lan through VPN, but my iPhone still able to use the handoff features through bluetooth. Maybe a bluetooth connection would be great in this app too. Sorry, for me this app is only a mediocre one, it just slows me down instead of increasing my productivity.
Don’t buy
App is unreliable. It allowed me to connect and hasn’t allowed me to connect since. Don’t waste your money.
Supremely disappointing
There is no way to get access to arbitrary keyboard and mouse controls so you have to manually build workflows for any little thing you would want to do.
Does not connect.
I will request a refund.
I love alfred, remote is okay
I'm just sad that the play/pause button doesn't work.
I don't use apple music, so I don't know if it works on that, but it does nothing to spotify and YouTube, etc.
I have no idea why the pause, skip, rewind buttons are not just equivalent to pressing the same on the keyboard and are instead bound to a software I'll never use.
Get the Power Pack and use this
I’ve been using this across two Macs for a number of years. Having a remote that you can configure yourself for just about anything? Priceless.
I didn’t think I’d like the 1.5 changes but they’re growing on me….
And yes one of the 5 remote screens is a TV remote for the 3 Mac media players on my machines. Tip: Try to match key bindings in every player you use…
Infinite possibilities here, even if you’ve never programmed a line of code in your life.
Waste of time and money
The app is misrepresented on the Apple store site. The iOS app is inexpensive but it’s catch bait BEWARE: it’s useless without buying the “power pack” for the MacBook Pro which is in British pounds @ $1.4/lb do >$30. It’s somewhere between childish and dysfunctional. It took about an hour to figure out how to connect the iPhoneX and then the functionality was minimal. Day 2 could not reconnect. Ok so forget about a few $ for an app but the system is constructed in a idiosyncratic way. Just a huge waste of time and money.
Pretty functional
This is a great idea and a well made product. However, a redesign, additional of things like widgets, and maybe siri integration, would make it very much better. I think, the big part has been finished. It is worth going that 15% just to make the experience smoother.
Hello? Anyone home?
Where did you go, Alfred? I thought we were friends?
Could Be Great but no updates!
Was surprised I can run any Alfred workflows...seems odd. Access to system command and bookmarks are nice but not unique. Integrate this further and it's a must have combo.
