Features
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”- One-click install — unzip an app package, prepare it for macOS and sign it.
- Real foreground launch — apps open through LaunchServices on the
/System/iOSSupportruntime, so they behave like a real foreground app. - Keymapper — opt-in per app and off by default. Map keys to taps, holds, a virtual joystick, mouse-look and swipes.
- Real multi-touch — genuine, simultaneous touches through the platform’s own virtual-touch machinery. No special permissions, no pointer lock: the cursor stays visible and can always leave the window.
- App-owned overlay — the keymapper UI is the app’s own window over the target; no UI code is added to the target.
- Metal HUD / FPS — a per-app switch that launches with
MTL_HUD_ENABLED=1, showing Metal’s FPS, GPU time and memory overlay. - Per-app pointer lock — on by default; a title that traps the cursor can have it disabled in that app’s settings.
- Repeat-rate protection — always on and not configurable; the keymapper rejects implausibly fast repeated presses.
- Clean-room and MIT licensed.
Multi-touch that feels real
Section titled “Multi-touch that feels real”A mapped key becomes a touch by driving the platform’s own virtual-touch machinery — the same mechanism behind Touch Alternatives on the Mac. Each binding drives a named finger, so several can be down at once. It needs no Accessibility permission and never moves your cursor.
You’re always in control
Section titled “You’re always in control”Keymapping is opt-in per app and off by default. When it’s off, no keymap is passed and the runtime installs no input handlers at all — the app runs exactly as it otherwise would.
See Keymapper to set it up.
Where your data lives
Section titled “Where your data lives”A windowed iOS app isn’t sandboxed, so without help its saves and caches would scatter across your home folder. PearSilicon keeps them inside a per-app folder:
~/Library/Application Support/PearSilicon/Games/<bundle-id>/What it doesn’t do
Section titled “What it doesn’t do”PearSilicon translates system APIs and nothing else. It doesn’t circumvent, patch or bypass DRM or anti-cheat protections, doesn’t decompile application logic, and doesn’t add anything to an app’s core binaries beyond declaring platform compatibility. Apps that would need such a bypass are out of scope and intentionally left unhandled.