LinkFlick

LinkFlick is a macOS menu bar app that switches your Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad between any two Macs in one click. It is built for people who move between multiple Macs during the day — a personal MacBook and a work MacBook, or a laptop and a desktop at home — and who want their Magic peripherals to come with them. LinkFlick flicks the devices over Bluetooth instead of asking you to re-pair them by hand, and it does so without iCloud, without an Apple ID, and without digging through menus. The app was built out of a specific frustration: re-pairing a Magic Keyboard and Mouse every time its maker moved between a MacBook and a work MacBook. Those two machines ran on different Apple IDs, so Universal Control was never going to work for that setup, and manual Bluetooth re-pairing was the only option left. That meant digging through menus and repeating the same tedious routine several times a day. LinkFlick replaces that routine with a single, explicit action that moves the physical hardware to the other Mac. LinkFlick lives in your menu bar, designed to stay out of your way and ready whenever you need to switch. It connects all your trusted Macs into a cluster that is instantly available for a switch, showing which machines are online and which devices are currently attached where. With one click you move your keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to the other Mac — no cables, no dongles, just a seamless hand-off of your controls. You can also trigger the switch with a customizable hotkey, or simply tell Siri to flick devices. Because control is explicit, there is no cursor drifting off the screen by accident, and the interaction feels like a native part of macOS. Unusually, LinkFlick moves the physical hardware rather than just the cursor. It re-pairs peripherals at the Bluetooth layer, so the destination Mac sees a real Magic device, not a bridged input stream. That native approach means there is no iCloud dependency, no network relay, and no limit imposed by a bridging layer. It also means no Apple ID is required: LinkFlick works between any two Macs on the same network, whether they are personal or work machines, and even when they are signed into completely different accounts. LinkFlick simply does not care which account each Mac uses. LinkFlick supports every Magic peripheral — Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad — across both 1st and 2nd generation hardware, handling the hand-off so macOS does not have to. Support is intentionally limited to Apple's Magic peripherals, because those devices enter Bluetooth discovery mode automatically after unpairing. That behaviour is what allows LinkFlick to perform a silent re-pair on the other Mac without PIN codes or confirmation dialogs. Third-party devices such as Logitech or Razer are not supported. The menu bar interface also displays battery levels for your devices, and it nags you before your Magic Mouse battery dies. Under the hood, LinkFlick uses Bonjour to discover your Macs on the local subnet, so no cloud servers are involved and nothing is sent outside your home or office network. Both Macs must be on the same network — Wi-Fi and Ethernet both work — and LinkFlick must be running on each Mac you want to transfer devices between. The app runs as a lightweight menu bar extra and uses almost no resources when idle. It requires Bluetooth access to re-pair devices and Local Network access to discover other Macs via Bonjour; it does not need administrator privileges and does not read your keyboard input. Transfers typically take 5 to 15 seconds, depending on how quickly macOS processes the Bluetooth pairing request internally — by the time you turn to face the other screen, the device is usually ready. If the destination Mac is off or asleep, your devices simply stay connected to the current Mac, and as soon as the other Mac wakes and LinkFlick reconnects, it reappears in the Flick List ready for the next transfer. LinkFlick also senses your power and display status, so work starts the moment you plug in. When you connect power, LinkFlick wakes up and checks where your devices need to be. If your Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Trackpad are still on another Mac, you get a gentle nudge that one tap resolves. The app then hands off each device silently in the background, with no pairing screens and no interruptions, so everything follows you. By the time you sit down and open your editor, your mouse is already where you left off. The outcome is that your workflow follows you between machines. Rather than stopping to reconnect hardware, you continue exactly where you left off, with your Magic devices simply present on whichever Mac you are using. Because switching happens in the background and takes only seconds, the interruption is minimal, and because the app sits in the menu bar with explicit controls, switching stays deliberate rather than accidental. There is also less battery anxiety, since device battery levels are visible and low battery warnings arrive before a mouse dies mid-task. Typical use cases include a personal MacBook paired with a work MacBook that use different Apple IDs, where Universal Control cannot help but LinkFlick can. Others use it to move a keyboard, mouse, and trackpad between a MacBook Pro and a Mac mini on the same desk, or between any two Macs on one local network. Power users with a full multi-Mac setup can connect up to five Macs under the Pro plan. The plug-in workflow suits people who dock or connect power and external displays when they sit down, since the devices follow automatically. And when the other Mac is asleep, devices remain usable on the current Mac until it returns. LinkFlick is available as a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and pricing is a one-time purchase with free updates and no subscription. The Personal plan costs $14.99 and supports up to 3 Macs, which is described as perfect for working between a laptop and a desktop at home. The Pro plan costs $19.99 and supports up to 5 Macs for power users and full multi-Mac setups. Both plans include auto device discovery, instant switching, battery level display, trusted peers, and no cloud or account requirement. System requirements are macOS 14 Sonoma or later, with all Macs on the same local network. LinkFlick's core value proposition is simple: it removes the friction of sharing Magic peripherals between Macs. It does that natively at the Bluetooth layer, without iCloud, without an Apple ID, and without re-pairing, so switching Macs becomes a single click in the menu bar rather than a routine chore.