Touch Portal

As a power user of Adobe Applications, I’ve grown tired of remembering absolutely every keyboard shortcut, with many of them requiring finger gymnastics. Across the different applications, there are hundreds. These shortcuts are essential for optimising usage of the applications. Touch portal has removed the pain of keyboard shortcuts by allowing me to move whichever shortcuts I choose, to an icon on my iPad screen placed next to my keyboard. This has been a lifesaver. Additionally, I’ve created little Automator scripts that allow me to rate music in Apple Music by tapping an icon on my iPad and add tracks to specific playlists, all through Touch Portal. I absolutely love Touch Portal, and know that my usage of using it for keyboard shortcuts is just scratching the surface of what it can do. Am surprised this gem of a tool isn’t more widely known as I couldn’t recommend it any higher. It’s easily in my top 3 apps on my iPad Pro, that I use daily.

Limited functions for in app!

The IPad app is perfect for using with a flight sim. The pages can be set up for different control categories. I bought all the add ins on offer straight away. This app is so flexible and is a fantastic and much better option to hardware like Steam Deck.

As long as you understand making automation settings it works perfect for me. It’s a cheap stream deck, recommend to install on iPad for more buttons + you can get button packs online and tutorials

As a power user of Adobe Applications, I’ve grown tired of remembering absolutely every keyboard shortcut, with many of them requiring finger gymnastics. Across the different applications, there are hundreds. These shortcuts are essential for optimising usage of the applications. Touch portal has removed the pain of keyboard shortcuts by allowing me to move whichever shortcuts I choose, to an icon on my iPad screen placed next to my keyboard. This has been a lifesaver. Additionally, I’ve created little Automator scripts that allow me to rate music in Apple Music by tapping an icon on my iPad and add tracks to specific playlists, all through Touch Portal. I absolutely love Touch Portal, and know that my usage of using it for keyboard shortcuts is just scratching the surface of what it can do. Am surprised this gem of a tool isn’t more widely known as I couldn’t recommend it any higher. It’s easily in my top 3 apps on my iPad Pro, that I use daily.

This app is amazing, but every time I try to purchase the pro upgrade the price is listed as ?.?? and won’t let me get any further. The app truly would be 5* without the limitations of the free version, so the purchases need to be fixed

Constantly having problems with this software. I first downloaded it from some Reddit post advertising it, instantly the UI just looked terrible, but that’s pretty common for crappy apps like this one. I downloaded it on my Mac, which also didn’t have a very nice first impression, and then scanned for it, but nothing was found. Tried again, restarted the app and tried changing the port. Still nothing. Then I thought there may be some odd way to start it that the tutorial didn’t make clear, so I pressed the Device Not Connected thing in the bottom right. Just guess what happens next. My entire pc instantly crashed. Lovely.

I won’t waste you time, the app works 110%, I am a developer and rarely I get impressed from other developers. This one is not only well thought but also obvious it has taken in lots of feedback and made it excellent. A user claimed the app uses an old installer that needs to reboot blah blah. Nothing could be more uninformed like that comment. The reboot has to do with security of windows as the app uses certain API for network access. I stream and do a rather complex work with online and offline (music composition) and I can assure you this is a diamond app that you can use with ANY software, jump from pc app to app, and do EVERYTHING! Buy it.

The desktop application needed for this to work is a horribly slow Java 8 application that often fails to start, and consumes 500MB+ of RAM when it does. It also uses one of those nasty old installers that requires your PC to reboot. “Support” seems to be crowdsourced from other users via Discord, who are of course no help in circumventing the many bugs. I strongly recommend you do not pay for this app; see if the concept works for you then buy a proper Streamdeck.

So I saw many reviews about how good this app is, so I downloaded but had issues trying to connect to my pc. There is a discord page for this app and I must say it’s a great community. I ended up spending a little time with touch portal tech guy to basically make sure that my devices could ‘talk’ to each other. He took time out to help me and got it working. I don’t know many other companies that would do that. Great app and great service all for free. I will be upgrading for sure, just want to write this (and only time I have) review. Must get this! Don’t hesitate!