A key panel for your Mac.

Mink turns the iPhone beside your keyboard into keys for media, windows, shortcuts and apps.

Coming soon for Mac and iPhone. Free to start, no account.

Studio · Media

Mink’s media board, drawn as it looks on the iPhone.

Switch it on.

An on/off key shows its state in its name, colour and symbol.

Every press, answered.

A pill drops from under your Mac’s notch with the volume, a profile switch or a key that didn’t work. Three sizes, or off.

General

Key Press Indicator
Size
Size

Press a key.

Built on your Mac.

The editor draws your iPhone as it will look. Drag in an action and it becomes a key. Try It runs it right there.

Mink
Studio · Media

Key

Show Name

Appearance

Symbol
Colour
Appearance

Action

Media key · Play/Pause

  • ⌘Z stays ⌘Z. Mink stores the character, so shortcuts survive Swiss, German, French and US layouts.
  • Symbols and colours. System symbols, outline or filled, in eight key colours or your own.
  • Thirteen starter decks. Install one in a click and change anything. Share yours as a .minkdeck file.

Your keys follow your app.

Bring Xcode to the front and your Xcode keys appear. With Mink Unlimited or Knieses Workshop.

App in front
Automatic
Only When the App Is in Front
Otherwise
Otherwise

Applies to profiles linked to an app: key combinations and window commands only work there.

Turn on Automatic and Mink follows the app in front.

Studio · Media
Studio · Xcode
Studio · Zoom

Nothing in between.

Your Mac and your iPhone talk only to each other, over Wi-Fi or a USB cable, encrypted from pairing. Without a license key, Mink never goes online.

The Mac and the iPhone, joined directly by Wi-Fi or a USB cable, with nothing in between.

Free to start. Pay once if you like.

Free

CHF 0 for as long as you like

One iPhone, one profile, three pages, every basic action.

  • Corner sliders and the pill under the notch

Coming soon.

Mink Unlimited

CHF 20 once

Everything in Mink, for good, with every 1.x update.

  • Profiles that follow the app in front
  • Shortcuts, window tiling, Live Activity

Coming soon.

Knieses Workshop

CHF 20 a year

Every Mac app from Knieses while you’re subscribed. Today that’s Mink.

  • Everything in Mink Unlimited
  • Or CHF 3 a month

Coming soon.

  • Seven days of everything. Every new install, no key, no card.
  • No account. Stripe is the merchant of record. Your key appears right after paying.

Prices in Swiss francs, VAT included. The iPhone app is free.

How licenses work · Compare every feature

Start in two minutes.

Download, scan one code. Mink for your Mac, the free app on your iPhone, then your first key.

Coming soon for Mac and iPhone.

Needs macOS 26 or later and iOS 27 or later. The 7-day trial starts the first time you open Mink.

Your first key