What is Pincer?

Pincer is a native macOS and iOS app for talking to your OpenClaw agents.

If you already chat with OpenClaw through a messaging app, Pincer will feel familiar. It keeps what works there, like servers, #channels and notifications, and adds what a plain chat window can’t show: the agent’s thinking, its tool calls, inline images, and your own messages shown under your name.

Pincer on macOS with a sidebar of agents and channels, and a chat showing a tool result and a chart.

What you get

Organized by channel

Each server gets a section with its channels. Automations and agents get their own.

The agent's work, visible

Streaming thinking and tool cards with arguments and results.

Native and fast

Native lists and a background cache. Scrolling up never waits for the network.

Approvals anywhere

Allow or deny exec requests from a banner or a notification.

What Pincer is (and isn’t)

Pincer is a pure client. It connects to a Gateway you already run and uses the Gateway WebSocket protocol (v4) in the operator role.

It never bundles, launches or embeds a Gateway.
It never registers as a node, so it doesn’t expose camera, screen, shell or system.run capabilities.

That’s why you can use it on machines where the official OpenClaw app isn’t allowed. The security model covers the details.

Next steps

Install PincerGet the app for macOS or iOS.

Try the demoLook around with sample agents. Nothing leaves your device.

Connect a gatewayAdd your gateway and approve this device.