Your keyboard is over there. Your controller is right here.

Your Mac only listens to a keyboard and a mouse. They're never where you are. Steer turns the game controller you already own into both.

One email, when the 14-day trial opens.

Can't wait? The free beta is open on Apple's TestFlight. Join the beta

Ink drawing: someone on a sofa, feet up, runs the Mac on the TV with a controller; the laptop on the TV stand is plugged into the TV. Across the room the keyboard sits on a side table with a cat asleep on it. — On the sofa

Ink drawing: an editor leans back from the desk, feet up beside the monitor, controller in hand; the keyboard is pushed to the far end. — At the desk

Ink drawing: a presenter holds a controller in one hand and points at the screen with the other; the laptop on the table is plugged into the screen and the room laughs. — Front of the room

Can I really type with a controller? Yes. Press the right stick.

A keyboard splits in two on the screen. Each stick aims at one half, the triggers type, is Space. Slower than your keyboard. Faster than getting up.

From Steer, typing into TextEdit. The right stick aims, RT types the lit key.The left half, from Steer. RT types the lit key.

Is it fiddly to set up? No. Every button already has a job.

The left stick moves the pointer, clicks, the right stick scrolls. Forget one? Press Create and this card shows every button for the app you're using.

Steer's help card for a DualSense, every control labelled with its job: Cross Left Click, Circle Escape, Triangle Return, Square Right Click, L1 Back, R1 Spotlight, L2 App Switch, R2 Space (each shoulder and trigger also holds its own layer), the D-pad the arrow keys, the left stick the mouse (pressed, your apps), the right stick scrolling (pressed, the on-screen keyboard), Options Mission Control, Create this card, and a touchpad press Dictation. — Steer's help card, for the app you're using. Screenshots taken with a DualSense; button names match your controller.

Will it work with my apps? Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Classic and Keynote have ready-made setups.

Each app gets its own buttons. Add them from the Gallery, alongside setups for Xcode, Terminal and drawing apps.

On the sofa, press the left stick for a ring of your apps. At the desk, Window Snap puts a window in one of nine places.

Steer's Gallery card for Final Cut Pro: blade, marks and markers on R2; the edit types on a ring. An Add button. — From Steer's Gallery.

Will my controller work? DualSense, Xbox, Switch Pro and 300+ others.

DualSense
Xbox
Switch Pro

On a DualSense the triggers can push back. Check yours

Is it safe? It asks for what it uses, and tells you why.

Accessibility, to send clicks and keys. Automation, so System Events can bring forward the app you click and open its menus. Steer doesn’t ask for Input Monitoring. Setup ends by asking to show notifications, which you can decline. No account. No analytics. What each one does

Why not a free remapper? Steer comes set up.

A free remapper starts you with every button blank. That's an evening of mapping before you can type a word.

How much is it? 14 days free. No card, no account. Then €19.99, once.

Change your mind after buying? One email gets a refund, no forms. How refunds work

It goes online to check your licence, for updates you ask for, and to fetch a setup from a web address you paste in.

Stay where you are. We'll email you once.

When the trial opens. That's the only email.

Can't wait? The free beta is open on Apple's TestFlight. Join the beta