Astropad, the company behind the popular iPad-as-drawing-tablet software, today launched Workbench, a remote desktop app for Mac built specifically for AI agent management. The app has native clients for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and is designed for people running Mac mini home servers for OpenClaw and other AI agents, according to MacRumors.
The core use case: check on your AI agents from your phone. Monitor logs and output to verify agent work, restart failed tasks, or reconnect to long-running jobs without being at your desk. Workbench also supports switching between multiple Macs connected to a single account.
On the technical side, Workbench offers high-fidelity streaming with a unified virtual display, low latency, speech-to-text input, and multiple control options including gestures, keyboard, mouse, and Apple Pencil. Setup requires no network configuration. All connections use AES-256 encryption, and no display recordings are captured or saved, per Astropad.
Pricing: 20 minutes of free daily access for new users. Unlimited plans run $10/month or $50/year.
The product is a signal of ecosystem maturity. When third-party developers start building companion tooling around a platform, adoption has crossed a threshold where the surrounding infrastructure becomes its own market. Workbench is the first purpose-built mobile control panel for personal AI agent servers.