Calls on your Mac

Calls on your Mac logo Make calls on your Mac, the right way !

Welcome to Calls on your Mac !!! This is a free app that encourages Apple to bring a nice and modern UI to launch calls from your iPhone on the Mac. If you are the lucky owner of a Mac, chances are that you also have an iPhone. But, do you have an iPhone in your Mac ??? Not out of the box, even though we deserve a better experience. Using CallsOnYourMac you get precisly that, have an iPhone on our Mac.

CallsOnYourMac is specifically tailroed for those who want to focus on your work and still be able to make phone calls without having to grab your iPhone. Only work on your computer, and still be able to launch calls from your Mac via our iPhone. Plus, you can also save favorite contacts to easily launch phone and facetime calls, create calls from teleconference apps like Google Meet, and much more.

Make phone calls on your Mac, with Apple’s out of the box (lack of) UX

According to Apple, the “Continuity UX” to launch calls should be either one of the following.

  1. Move the pointer over any phone number in Contacts, Calendar, Safari, or other app that automatically detects such data. Then click the arrow in the box that outlines the phone number, then choose Call [phone number] Using iPhone.
  2. Or open the FaceTime app, enter a phone number in the search field, then click the audio call icon Audio.

Not enought. Actually not ‘It Just Works’ mood, right? Specially when you are the owner of an iPhone, and a Mac. You deserve a better experience.

A new way to make phone calls, and much more, with Calls on your Mac app:

With this app you can easily turn your Mac into a powerfull communication device thanks to “Continuity Possibilities” and the right UX. No pun intended.

Want to know more about what you can now do:

  • Make calls with your iPhone without having to get away from your computer

… and much more:

  • Save favorite contacts and telcos
  • Register recent calls (I here kindly ask Apple to allow recent calls access with iCloud for all ces)
  • Access all your contacts with a beautiful UI
  • Have an iPhone dialpad at your reach to dial phone numbers, in your computer
  • Have access to different Quick Actions for your favorite communication: phone calls, mail, facetime, text, Google Meet
  • Have convient digital clock and weather information at your fingertips

Use shortcuts

There are a number of shortcuts available in case you want to go even a step further and don’t have to take your hands out of hour keyboard any more:

  • Make a new call from the display: CMD + ENTER
  • Clear dialpad’s display: CMD + DELETE
  • Make a new call from the clipboard: CMD + SHIFT + V
  • Launch a new Google Meet call: CMD + SHIFT + G
  • Update weather info: CMD + SHIFT + W
  • Navigate sidebar views: CMD + 1 for iPhone, CMD + 2 for Recents, CMD + 3 for Favorites, and CMD + 4 for Contacts
  • Update your preferences: CMD + ,

Download

Download the latest version of the app Calls on your Mac logo CallsOnYourMac v1.1.7

Requirements

Calls on your Mac can be used on macOS 11 Big Sur, and above.

Installation

Just unzip the app and move it to your Applications folder. Launch the app by holding down SHIFT key and rigth clicking the app icon, the allow access since it is a downloaded from the internet app. Read the section bellow. Allow the app to access your contacts, localization, used to enable weather information and access to your browser, for launching new Google Meet calls from within the app. If you disable these access permissions you can always enable them back by going to System Preferencess, Privacy and enable CallsOnYourMac.app for each one of them.

How to correctly setup your mac and iPhone to launch calls from your Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209456

According to Apple, our Mac needs to be properly configured in order to make continutiy work.You can use iPhone Cellular Calls with any Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that meets the Continuity system requirements. It works when your devices are near each other and set up as follows:

  • Each device is signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID.
  • Each device is signed in to FaceTime with the same Apple ID.
  • Each device has Wi-Fi turned on.
  • Each device is connected to the same network using Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
  • On your iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices, then turn on Allow Calls on Other Devices.
  • On your iPad or iPod touch, go to Settings > FaceTime, then turn on Calls from iPhone.
  • On your Mac, open the FaceTime app, then choose FaceTime > Preferences. Click Settings, then select Calls From iPhone.

FAQ

  1. If your calls are not being opened in the phone but instead they are being launched on an another app like Skype, for example, you have to go open Facetime app on your mac, go to settings with CMD + ,, go to Settings tab, and in there, at the bottom, change the default app back to “Facetime.app”.

Change Log

v1.1.6

Fixed 2 major bugs:

  1. BUG Fixed - Redialing recents calls always tried to launch (and save) a phone call even when you launch other types such as emails. The app now repeats exactly the same type of call that was saved in recents.
  2. BUG Fixed - app not enabling sending text messages (iMessage), faceTime audio and faceTime video calls from eMail acounts when launching a call from a contact. The app now functions as expected with email accounts in the type of calls that support eMail accounts.

v1.1.7

Fixed the following bugs:

  1. BUG Fixed - corrected an error that prevented the app from launching webexe calls from the clipboard when it contained leading or trailing spaces on the url.