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Also consider Astropad Workbench. This app doesn't get talked about enough in AI circles but the performance is top notch (no affiliation)
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.
Also iPhone mirroring is still not available in EU :(
What would an app do that iphone mirroring doesn't?
What iPhone mirroring doesn't in EU. It's not available here.
Sidecar? IDK, i don't own an iphone
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.
Cling and Clop look pretty cool, thanks for sharing these projects.
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.
Pretty sure you’re interacting with a spam account. Look at their posts, they all have this robotic ad-reading discourse and link back to one of their websites.
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.
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?
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.
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.
individual windows and touch are not supported by sidecar, afaik
Touch support was added this year.
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!
And sidecar would not work over vpn
Also you need to be on the same apple id on every device for it to work
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.
Is a windows support planed? Seeing a windows window on iPad and control it with touch\pen
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.