ShareClick vs Universal Control

Like Apple Universal Control, but across Mac and Windows. Share one keyboard, mouse, clipboard and files between a Mac and a Windows PC. Free, open source, encrypted.

Apple’s Universal Control lets one keyboard and mouse roam across a Mac and an iPad — but only inside Apple’s ecosystem. There is no Universal Control for Windows. ShareClick gives you that same seamless feel between a Mac and a Windows PC — free, open source, and encrypted.

Feature	ShareClick	Universal Control
Price	Free & open source	Free (built into macOS)
Works with Windows	Yes	No (Apple devices only)
Mac ↔ Windows	Yes	No
Mac ↔ Mac / iPad	Any two computers	Yes
Clipboard (text + images)	Yes	Yes
File transfer	Yes (any pair)	Drag & drop (Apple only)
Setup	Shared passphrase + screen edges	Same Apple ID / iCloud
Open source	Yes (MIT/Apache)	No
Encryption	X25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305	Apple end-to-end

Which should you pick?

• Choose ShareClick if one of your machines is a Windows PC — Universal Control simply doesn’t support Windows. It’s the practical “Universal Control for Windows”.
• Choose Universal Control if you only ever move between Apple devices (Mac and iPad) on the same Apple ID.

Universal Control is a lovely feature, but it stops at the edge of Apple’s ecosystem. ShareClick delivers the same “push your cursor to the next screen” experience across Mac↔Windows, with clipboard sync, file transfer, encryption on every channel, and a UDP input path (~6 µs transport overhead) for the lowest possible lag.

Download ShareClick (free)

macOS .dmg or Windows installer.

Setup guide

Share your mouse & keyboard in 60 seconds.