touchbarserver ☆

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Type: Cask | Latest Version: 1.6@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: touchbar utility remote-control macos hardware

Install: brew install --cask touchbarserver

About:
TouchBarServer is a lightweight utility that enables the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar to be used as a secondary display for a Mac mini or Mac Pro. It streams the Touch Bar's interface over the network, allowing users to interact with apps on a headless server or a different Mac directly from the Touch Bar hardware. This provides a native hardware interface for controlling machines that lack a physical Touch Bar.

Key Features:

Streams Touch Bar UI over the network
Enables hardware Touch Bar for headless Macs
Low-latency connection for responsive interaction
Simple server-client architecture

Use Cases:

Using a Touch Bar with a headless Mac mini or Mac Pro
Controlling a development server from a MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
Testing Touch Bar app integrations on non-Touch Bar hardware

Alternatives:

Pock – Pock adds Touch Bar widgets to the MacBook Pro's Control Strip, while TouchBarServer streams the entire UI to a hardware Touch Bar on another machine.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jul 10, 2024 1:21pm	1.6	0	VERSION_BUMP	c66b5657