Who needs a fancy Stream Deck when you have your phone?

You know those fancy Elgato’s Stream Decks? Those sweet looking, handy gadgets that all of your favorite streamers use to juggle different apps. They’re pretty cool, but they’re also pretty expensive—more expensive than most mechanical keyboards or gaming mice in fact. But if you’ve got a phone or tablet lying around, you can get pretty much the same functionality for free.

All you need is your device and the Touch Portal app. It’s basically a freemium alternative to the Stream Deck and it turns your phone or tablet into a customizable control panel for your PC or Mac. And, just like the Stream Deck, it gives you a grid of buttons to customize for launching programs and triggering shortcuts.

Personally, I’ve been using it on an old phone that I had just sitting around. I’ve set my hotkeys to the things I use most like an audio switcher between speakers and headphones, a microphone mute button, and controlling video calls. If you want, you can even combine several actions into a single button press. I made one of the buttons automatically open all of the apps I use when I start my day all at once.