Bitfocus Companion surface

A Companion surface that lives in your pocket.

CyberDeck is a Bitfocus Companion surface for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Live button state, page navigation, encoders. Native on iOS and Android, LAN-only. No accounts, no cloud.

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Companion 4.3+, iOS 17+, Android 10+

CyberDeck on iPad, showing a Companion page of color-coded camera, playback, audio, and lighting buttons with live state.

Overview

CyberDeck registers with Bitfocus Companion as a surface. Companion assigns it pages, sends button bitmaps, and receives presses and encoder turns. Configured by Companion, not by you.

The phone or iPad reflects the live state of whichever Companion surface you've assigned to it. Page navigation, button bitmaps, encoders, lock screens. All of it. When Companion changes the surface, the device updates.

Everything runs over your local network. No cloud, no relay, no account. If your control computer and your phone are on the same Wi-Fi, you're ready.

Signal path

Companion
live button graphics, all your pages→
Local network
←button presses, encoder turns
CyberDeck

Live, both directions. No cloud in the middle. It keeps working as long as both ends share the network.

On the surface

A Companion page whose buttons tile a single woodblock print across the whole grid, rendered on iPad.
A custom dashboard combining projector shutter and power buttons from multiple Companion pages.
CyberDeck's connection menu open over a surface, listing a main and a backup rig.
CyberDeck's connection editor, showing a name and host field for the Companion computer.

Pricing

Free

  • One saved connection
  • One surface at a time
  • One Quick Button (iPhone and iPad)
  • Page nav, button bitmaps, encoders

CyberDeck Pro $14.99, one time

  • Multiple saved connections
  • Custom dashboards (mix buttons from any pages)
  • Operator Roles, published to DeckHand
  • Unlimited Quick Buttons: Shortcuts, Siri, Action button
  • Multi-surface operation on iPad

See full pricing →

For crews

Running a crew? DeckHand for CyberDeck is the locked-down surface you hand to an operator: they get the buttons and variables you publish from CyberDeck (Pro), and nothing else. $4.99 one-time on the operator's iPad.

Meet DeckHand → DeckHand on the App Store →

Updates

  • RELEASE v2.5.0 iOS

    v2.5.0: the rail, Settings, and the rating popup

    A polish release. The connection rail is full height again and stays put behind Settings, connections sort alphabetically, and the old rating popup is gone.

  • RELEASE v2.4.0 iOS

    v2.4.0: Quick Buttons

    Press any Companion button from Shortcuts, Siri, or the Action button, with the app closed. One Quick Button is free; CyberDeck Pro removes the limit.

  • RELEASE v1.0.0 DeckHand

    DeckHand 1.0

    The operator app is on the App Store. $4.99, one time, iPad. It runs the role your tech lead published, and nothing else.

All updates →

Support

Having issues? The help pages cover the most common ones.

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