MeowDisplay - Turn iPhone and iPad into Mac displays
Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse
MeowDisplay is a free, open-source app that flips iPhone Mirroring on its head: instead of viewing your iPhone on your Mac, it turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into a second display for your Mac. Mirror your screen or extend it, control everything with natural touch gestures, and even use your iPad as a drawing tablet with Apple Pencil. It supports USB, Wi-Fi, and remote access, plus clever features like Stage Peek for window switching, Remote Finder for file browsing, and Picture-in-Picture to keep an eye on your Mac from any app. Perfect for clamshell mode or when you need extra screen real estate on the go.
Not just another screen. Another way to use your Mac.
- dabbz
It's uncanny, I just vibe built something super similar. A server/client system to share individual windows as a resized app on the phone. I can select certain windows to render as if it was an app on either my Windows client, mac client, or iPhone client from a windows or mac server.
Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about this. It also connects over tailnet.
- Shank
I really want an evaluation of all of these classes of remote desktop systems and latency. Almost all of my remote display experiences have been mediocre due to lag. Maybe my tolerance is too low? How is the latency on this product?
Only RDP has felt truly responsive to me, and my understanding is that it cheats by not sending raster graphics and instead drawing primaries directly on the remote system and then updating the state based on the server?
- mpolichette
Since this forks opendisplay, what are you doing differently? Are you a layer on top, or a different direction?
I'd have expected that to be declared in an announcement for this community.