Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

172 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by chanana
(github.com)

42 Comments

00deadbeef

25 minutes ago

I had to read a lot of text to understand this was a remote desktop app. You might get more users if you're clearer about what it is.

alin23

9 hours ago

Brilliant! So much faster and seamless than VNC. Already helped me two times today.

This is the first time I discover an app through a Youtube video recommendation. I was watching The Rest Is Science when this 1 minute video appeared on the right side with 230k views about a macOS app?? It got me curious for sure.

Claude got really good at making demo videos with Hyperframes apparently. Just did my own this week for Cling (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and users are already appreciating that they can discover app features through easy to digest video snippets.

Most people don't read the website copy at all unfortunately so I had to adapt. But I would never have the patience to do that in After Effects.

explosion-s

14 minutes ago

This is so funny to me - I was also watching The Rest is Science when that popped up and I watched it, shoutout TRiS literally my favorite podcast ever. The app is really good though, my only qualm is that I can’t seem to get rid of all the controls and only view the window on my phone on portrait mode, nor do keyboard shortcuts seem to work (modifiers not applying)

bredren

8 hours ago

I wanted to look at your videos but they aren’t playing on my phone. Maybe it is noir? I would suggest embedding YouTube.

It has all the expected controls.

alin23

an hour ago

There's a play pause button at the bottom right of the page. Its possible you have Reduce Motion or Low Power Mode enabled? That pauses videos by default.

Youtube comes with an iframe and privacy concerns when embedding, I need full control of the playback of my own HTML5 videos.

latexr

6 hours ago

Pretty sure you’re interacting with a spammer. Look at their posts, they all have this robotic ad-reading discourse and link back to one of their websites.

alin23

4 hours ago

Is sharing now the new spamming? If I just say Cling people will have no idea what I mean. If I leave a link, people either will click and find something useful, or at least get some context on what I'm talking about or move along.

I get that we have to be skeptical nowadays with all the bots, but I would never have guessed that my day to day writing will be taken as robotic ad-reading.

latexr

2 hours ago

> Is sharing now the new spamming?

No, of course not, that is a pretty bad faith interpretation of what I wrote. Making every post about one’s own things is spammer behaviour, though, and explicitly against the rules.

> I would never have guessed that my day to day writing will be taken as robotic ad-reading.

It did to me, and I deal with spam frequently. If it had just been the writing style I wouldn’t have said anything, it was the links always there that triggered alarm bells.

alin23

2 hours ago

Got it. No worries. Have you ever had a friend at your place tell you in passing about a problem they recurrently have, and you have just the right tool to help them? And you can't help yourself and have to tell them about it?

That is my thinking on sharing these links to my work. I did something that helps me, and I want to see it helping others. Most of it is free.

There are no shop fronts for my work, no targeted ads, there are people that could benefit from it and me talking about it is one of the only ways to do that.

I myself found about Hyperframes from a comment like this, being in awe of what can be achieved with careful prompts and the right tooling. I struggled for years in DaVinci Resolve making stupidly high effort videos that looked amateurish and didn't convey the information I had in my head. I thought others might want to see that.

I get how seeing links in irrelevant comments can raise spam alarm bells, I thought I'm being useful and tried not to add links so often. But memory can be deceiving.

latexr

21 minutes ago

Fair. I believe you that you’re trying to be helpful and apologise for saying I was “pretty sure” you were a spammer.

I just realised I have actually paid for one of your apps (Lunar). I haven’t used it in a few years since it messed up the config on a monitor that I connected to which wasn’t mine, but I understand you have to be hacky with the app due to its nature and I believe you care to make it good.

alin23

16 minutes ago

Thanks for the Lunar purchase! Unfortunately the config messing up is done by the monitors themselves. All Lunar does is send standard DDC brightness, volume and contrast set commands, but some monitor firmwares change their presets and calibration completely when they get such a command. Impossible to know beforehand, DDC is a mess .

defrost

6 hours ago

Alternatively, they have had multiple past submissions on personal projects that have done well on HN, often (but not always) interact, and have English as a second or third language.

https://alinpanaitiu.com/

latexr

4 hours ago

That doesn’t justify promoting their own websites in almost every comment. I interact with many people who don’t have English as their first language and none of them sound like an ad. Bot or not, linking to yourself every time you interact is spammer behaviour.

logicallee

6 hours ago

Cling and Clop look pretty cool, thanks for sharing these projects.

gumby

10 hours ago

Apple supports this already on the ipad by making the ipad another screen for your mac (I think it’s called sidecar?) and still use pencil, mouse, keyboard etc.

Iphone is novel though, but does a pencil work?

fbcpck

3 hours ago

Sidecar streams the mac display to the ipad, but it has to be initiated and controlled from the mac.

In contrast, what I wanted (what this app does!) is to view and control my mac from my handheld device, initiated from the handheld device.

These apps all look similar and it makes it very difficult to search:

• Mac screen --> Handheld, as extended display = Sidecar

Use-case: I use my ipad as additional window space for the mac.

• Mac screen --> Handheld, as duplicate display = Sill, Sunshine+Moonlight

Use-case: I leave my desktop and continue watching what I had playing on it from my kitchen ipad.

• Handheld screen --> Mac = Airplay

Use-case: I play some media from my iphone on the mac screen.

• iPhone screen --> Mac, controlled from Mac = iPhone Mirroring

Use-case: I use my iphone-only apps from my mac, wirelessly

• iPad controls --> Mac, controlled from Mac = Universal Controls

Use-case: I use my ipad with my mac mouse+keyboard

Usually, trying to search for this type of app obnoxiously returns results for Airplay, and if you manage to filter it out, it's Sidecar — but it's not what I want!

jasonjmcghee

10 hours ago

My guess is this is meant to be a no friction VNC (though it doesn't seem to be using VNC). So you can be away from home and remote in.

There are VNC clients on iphone / ipad - but generally it's whole desktop.

RealVNC is the name brand but it's not exactly a good experience. "Screens 5" looks like a better alternative.

isomorphic

6 hours ago

It's frustrating that Apple doesn't have their own Screen Sharing (VNC) application on the iPhone/iPad, if even just to provide a basic screen-sharing experience. They have something builtin to FaceTime (that I've never tried) as a kind of remote-support app.

RealVNC did not work from iOS/iPadOS to macOS Golden Gate when I tried it relatively recently, although it may have been updated since. It's possible Apple changed something in their version of VNC's auth.

I used to recommend Screens (v4) when it was flat licensed, as it seemed to work well and was well designed in dealing with smaller screens and input differences. Now (v5) it's $5/month $30/year $200/lifetime, which I can't really justify for my casual use case.

jscheel

9 hours ago

individual windows and touch are not supported by sidecar, afaik

gumby

8 hours ago

I use touch and pen (useful for the zoom whiteboard) though I guess some gestures were not supported until 27 — guess I never used those ones!

boguscoder

7 hours ago

And sidecar would not work over vpn

thewhitetulip

8 hours ago

Also you need to be on the same apple id on every device for it to work

greenspam

6 hours ago

Is there a reverse app? I want to control my iphone apps from my mac since typing on iphone is painful and the iphone touchscreen keyboard seems to be less accurate and more laggy over time. And iPhone Mirroring feature is laggy for me for some reason.

onebitwise

6 hours ago

Also iPhone mirroring is still not available in EU :(

Starmina

5 hours ago

Device Hub kinda fixes that w/ iOS 27 and macOS 27 (included with XCode)

dansquizsoft

3 hours ago

Maybe the EU should think about implementing less restrictive legal requirements for innovative technologies...

isodev

3 hours ago

Maybe someone in the US should sue Apple into stop abusing their market share to lock people into their walled garden of "joy". Also, innovation happens outside/before Apple these days.

dansquizsoft

28 minutes ago

What’s iPhone mirroring to a Mac got to do with how Apple’s policies around its App Store work? (To be clear taking 30% and locking out competitors is, in my opinion, overreaching, but I fail to see why this should stop iPhone mirroring being a thing in the EU??)

King-Aaron

5 hours ago

> typing on iphone is painful

I swear it seems to get worse with every new update too. Maddening.

gnopgnip

6 hours ago

What would an app do that iphone mirroring doesn't?

bashwizard

6 hours ago

What iPhone mirroring doesn't in EU. It's not available here.

voicedYoda

6 hours ago

Sidecar? IDK, i don't own an iphone

zephyreon

5 hours ago

That CLAUDE.md file is eating up a ton of context.

herunan

4 hours ago

Oh wow yeah, it's endless!

outlore

6 hours ago

Also consider Astropad Workbench. This app doesn't get talked about enough in AI circles but the performance is top notch (no affiliation)

toppa33

2 hours ago

Downloaded, installed, loved and donated via GitHub. Awesome app mate, it’s so good.

fbcpck

4 hours ago

This is super nice!

I've been using Sunshine + Moonlight and it required a lot of tinkering and breaks half the time.

Looks like now I can forego that setup, this is way way nicer! Thank you!

Jakob

6 hours ago

I still have the original iPhone lying around. I really like its design but it’s too slow and the software too old.

I was always wondering whether a thin client concept like this could bring it to live again.

Surac

8 hours ago

Is a windows support planed? Seeing a windows window on iPad and control it with touch\pen

socalgal2

7 hours ago

In Oct 2026, if you want this you just ask your favorite LLM "look at this repo, can you add windows support?". Or "I need an app that does XYZ on Windows" and especially for something this specific, targetted, and small you'll likely have a working app in 1-2 hrs if not < 5 minutes.

deepbuilds

5 hours ago

that looks really good, will def give it a try.

i also made something (getalmirah.com) let me know your feedback on that too...