01 · Source
Mac M2 Pro
Native Retina signal
Your monitor signal, captured straight from the Mac with no tone mapping at the source.
✦Creative pros
Your studio, on every screen. Color-accurate remote desktop for designers and editors.
Remio carries a pixel-faithful H.265 stream to your iPad or Mac, and forwards Apple Pencil Pro and Wacom Intuos Pro pointer strokes back to Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Procreate — true 4:4:4 color is now live — NVIDIA-powered PCs streaming to Mac, more pairs on the way.
✦Your pencil, your Mac
Draw on the iPad. Land on the Mac.
Every Apple Pencil Pro stroke arrives at your Mac as native desktop pointer input. Photoshop brushes, Illustrator strokes, and Procreate paintings track the tip precisely, point for point — because to your Mac, that is what is happening.
The full desktop apps, not the cut-down tablet versions.
Every stop on the wire preserves wide gamut
The colour signal stays pixel-perfect from your Mac's framebuffer all the way to the panel in your hands.
02 · Encode
Hardware H.265
hardware encode
Compressed by the Mac’s media engine — hardware accelerated, frame after frame.
03 · Transport
~8 ms local processing
low double-digit ms, same region
Sent directly through Remio over an end-to-end encrypted connection, with no cloud round-trip.
04 · Decode
Hardware
A17 or M-series
Reconstructed pixel-by-pixel on your iPad or Mac, with near-zero CPU draw.
05 · Display
iPad mini-LED
Pro Display XDR
Rendered edge to edge on iPad mini-LED and any panel you plug in.
H.265
Hardware, end to end
60 fps
Steady on 4K canvases
4:4:4
Live: NVIDIA PC → Mac
~8 ms
Local-network processing, measured internally
The full desktop apps, not the cut-down web versions
Remio streams whatever runs on your Mac. None of these require a plugin or a proxy workflow.
Graphic design
Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Figma on your Mac; Apple Pencil Pro on the iPad. Soft-proofs and swatch panels render faithfully on the iPad’s wide-gamut panel, with true 4:4:4 color for pixel-perfect swatches now live from NVIDIA PCs to Mac (more pairs on the way).
Video editing
DaVinci Resolve colour page, Final Cut Pro timeline, and Premiere Pro at 60 fps scrub. ProRes 422 HQ media plays back at full resolution on your Mac. No proxy generation step, no waiting on a transcode.
Music production
Logic Pro, Ableton Live, and Pro Tools with the full plugin chain on your Mac. Audio rides a separate low-latency lane rather than being bundled into the video frame, so the buffer at the desk is the buffer on the iPad.
3D and motion
Blender, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Maya, and Houdini run on your workstation's graphics power. Viewport navigation, material tweaks, and render monitoring stream back at full resolution — the tower stays under the desk.
✦Input precision
Your pencil, your Mac's cursor.
Every Apple Pencil Pro stroke arrives at your Mac as native desktop pointer input. Photoshop brushes, Illustrator strokes, and Procreate paintings track the tip precisely, point for point.
- Point, tap, and draw — precision pointer input, no smoothing or acceleration
- Sub-pixel coordinates, no quantization or drift
- Two-finger scroll and pinch-to-zoom pass straight through
- Works iPad-to-Mac, iPad-to-Windows, and iPad-to-iPad — Sidecar only does Mac-to-Mac
- The tip lands exactly where you point it, every time
✦On the roadmap
Three features creative users have asked for
Honest milestones, not shipping features yet — here's what's next for colour-critical work.
Colour profile sync
The iPad and Mac client will read your Mac's active ICC profile at session start and apply the matching system profile on the client side — calibrated soft-proofing across the link, not only on the Mac.
Wacom tablet passthrough
A Wacom Intuos Pro or Cintiq Pro connected to the iPad client will forward pointer strokes and the ExpressKeys rotary dial back to your Mac — useful when the iPad is a second-position tablet next to a laptop.
Display profile switching
Save a colour profile per monitor — your reference display and your working canvas — and switch between them from the client with one tap, each remembering its own calibration.
✦Questions
What colour-critical work needs answered
Can I use Photoshop, Illustrator, and DaVinci Resolve remotely on iPad?
Yes. Remio streams a full Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop to iPad, with Apple Pencil forwarded to the host as a precision pointer. Photoshop, Illustrator, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Classic, Logic Pro, Cinema 4D, and Substance Painter all work as if you were sitting at the host machine.
Does Remio support 4:4:4 chroma for colour-accurate work?
Yes — on NVIDIA-powered Windows PCs streaming to a Mac, flip “4:4:4 color” in the Mac client’s settings and true 4:4:4 chroma renders colour-critical work pixel-exact. Other pairs stream standard color over hardware H.265 today — with more 4:4:4 pairs on the way.
Does Apple Pencil actually work over Remio?
Yes. Apple Pencil is forwarded to the Mac or Windows host as a native pointer — NSEvent on Mac, WM_POINTER on Windows — so drawing apps track the tip precisely, point for point. Sidecar can only do this Mac-to-Mac; Remio works iPad-to-Mac, iPad-to-Windows, and iPad-to-iPad.
Can I edit 4K video on iPad with Remio?
Yes. Stream DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro from a Mac Studio or Windows workstation to iPad. The host does the heavy lifting (GPU encode, AI tools, RAW debayer); iPad is the controller and display. A buttery 4K 60 FPS preview today, true 4:4:4 chroma for grading now live from NVIDIA PCs to Mac (more pairs on the way), and Apple Pencil for precise timeline scrubbing.
✦Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does Remio support 10-bit color?
Remio streams standard color over hardware H.265 — encoded straight from the GPU and decoded in hardware on iPad and Mac, so what you see stays consistent on both ends. True 4:4:4 chroma for zero subsampling loss is now live — NVIDIA-powered PCs streaming to Mac, more pairs on the way.
Will Apple Pencil work with Remio?
Yes. Apple Pencil Pro is supported — point, tap, and draw, forwarded as a native pointer event on the host. Photoshop brushes, Procreate strokes, and Affinity Designer paths track the tip precisely, the same as any pointer-driven stylus.
Is color calibration preserved across Remio?
Color profiles set on the host are preserved through the pipeline today over standard-color HEVC, with true 4:4:4 chroma — avoiding the chroma loss typical of 4:2:0 video codecs — now live from NVIDIA PCs to Mac (more pairs on the way). For color-critical proofs, calibrate both ends with a hardware probe such as the Calibrite Display Pro HL.
Can I use a Wacom tablet with Remio?
A Wacom Intuos Pro or Cintiq connected to the iPad client is forwarded to the host as pointer input — point, tap, and draw. Tablets attached to the host itself work normally because Remio streams the framebuffer rather than virtualizing input devices.
Start creating from anywhere.
Install Remio on your studio Mac and on the iPad you carry. Pair once with a six-digit code — your full colour pipeline, in your hands.
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