# PhoneCast — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of PhoneCast by Pawan Dixit, rated 3.29/5 from 38 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phonecast/id1548183660/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phonecast/id1548183660.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 13 ## Newest reviews (12 of 36) ### 2/5 — Meh. *2024-03-27* DO THIS INSTEAD: Plug in your ipad, go to Quicktime > File > New Movie Recording > Select your ipad as the screen (on the drop down NEXT to the Record button) and you'll have real time mirroring, no lag or pixel buffering. You're welcome. Here's my review: This is great for simple "here look at this" kind of stuff. Even with the paid HD casting, Paid audio casting, and paid auto rotate (which is 4.99 per upgrade) the image quality and the LAG really suffer. I wanted to use this for showing a game and videos, paid for the HD casting upgrade and I can't tell it apart from the free lagging/pixel buffering it does. ### 2/5 — Cash Grab *2023-11-10* Paid 1.99 just to download. Don’t realize until you install that basic features like audio require a subscription. Uninstalled within 2 minutes. I guess it’s decent if all you need is a visual. ### 2/5 — Terrible Pixelation *2023-09-01, version 3.5.2* Downloaded the program and could hardly watch it because of the awful pixelation. Paid the extra amount for highest quality, which resulted in a slight improvement, but still terribly pixelated. Could not watch a video for more than a minute or so. Waste of money! ### 1/5 — Unbelievably bad *2022-04-11* Absolutely does not work ### 1/5 — No audio, bad resolution *2022-01-09, version 3.4* Need to keep paying for everything ### 1/5 — Very jittery abs delayed. *2021-10-24, version 3.2* Was hoping to use this app to screen mirror phone to MacBook but it delays every one second making it too jittery. Therefore I have to say it’s a waste of money. Sorry to say as I had high hopes. ### 2/5 — Limited to WiFi connection *2021-10-19, version 3.2* I wanted this to work out in the field where I don’t have a WiFi network available. It doesn’t work when using the iPhone as a hotspot or when creating a network on the computer. This is a shame as it would have great potential otherwise. ### 1/5 — Not useable *2021-09-28, version 3.1* So,,,after I purchased everything - almost £12 including the options for Auto-rotate,,,the image is not changing at all from portrait to landscape,,,, so the extra payment was to get actually with the image locked to portrait ????? :D and not to be able to use the app at all,,,,, very disappointing ### 1/5 — Needs more work *2021-09-26, version 2.8* The quality mirrored from an iPad pro is very pixelated. When the iPad is sitting its keyboard, the mirrored screen is upside down and can't find a way to fix that. I ignored all the bad reviews and still purchased this which is I regret. ### 1/5 — Horrible app *2021-08-13* I purchased and downloaded. Doesn't mirror. Just awful. Now have to delete both from my computer and iPad. There's a prompt to pay more for "professional high quality mirroring" and more for rotation and more for audio. What a joke **Developer response:** Hi there, I am not sure how you got that experience. Make sure that your Mac and iPhone/iPad are on same wifi network. Please reach out to me directly from within the app. And I will take a look. Maybe I can help debug your issue. In most of these cases, it’s probably you are understanding something wrong. All in app purchases are optional. ### 1/5 — useless *2021-07-03, version 2.6* this is an absolute scam, dont buy it. it doest work at all. ### 1/5 — Does not work - Charged multiple times. Scam *2021-06-29* This app did not work at all with my MacBook Pro and new iPad Air. I tried it with my iPhone 12 with no luck as well. 2 weeks after I purchased, I was charged again. This is a scam. Do not purchase. **Developer response:** Most probably there is a misunderstanding here. Anyways, if you can provide some more insights I can help. You can always chat with me directly from within the app. I reply almost instantly. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — DO NOT BUY *2025-08-30* It doesn’t work, you also have to pay for every single feature after you download it. Bad bad bad ### 1/5 — bad app *2023-10-07* for past two years, developer hasn't improved the app and just keeps increasing prices. stay away, bad app ### 1/5 — Additional payment on iphone *2023-07-14, version 3.5.2* you need to make additional payment to see the reflected screen clearly. and most of options are available only when you pay. ### 1/5 — Useless over 40 second delay *2023-07-07* It’s uselss , supper slow with bad image and over 40 second delay waste of money ### 1/5 — bad app *2023-06-03* for past two years, developer hasn't improved the app and just keeps increasing proces. stay away, bad app ### 1/5 — Terrible *2023-06-02* I bought this app and then they downgraded my resolution and want more for me to get the resolution I had before. I don’t recommend. ### 1/5 — The resolution is horrible unless you pay more *2023-06-01* Deceiving ### 1/5 — Poor Resolution And Bad Lag *2022-08-21* Not One To Write A Review But: I Bought This App w/ The Added HD Pack And Found No Visible Improvement. This App Even Has Significant Lag. Potential Is There But You're Better Off Getting The Free Apps That Do The Exact Same Thing. ### 1/5 — This app is its own meme *2022-07-28* I second the other guys review. You do indeed pay for exactly what you get. Want audio pay for it 💀want HD? Pay for it. Auto rotation, pay for it. And the best part is it still didn’t work for me. The only reason I’m not refunding is so my review stays. Future prediction: dev response- “we’ve lowered the cost of those addons” 💀 make it free you ain’t paying for no servers we quite literally paid for the app ### 1/5 — Don’t pay for this garbage! *2022-04-16, version 3.8* The app does not work. It can not open automatically on Mac and there is no support material to solve the issue. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great App for your iphone! *2022-09-02* Works Great! and the main thing, It does NOT load data mining cookies on your MAC for the data to get sold. As some of the phone mirroring app do. Plus, it is at a GREAT price! A tenth of what the others cost. ### 5/5 — Amazing for mobile development *2022-05-27* When I need to screenshare what's going on, on my phone and I'm doing a slack screenshare of my desktop, I open up this app. Works like a charm. Not sure why the bad reviews are there. It's pretty straighforward.. **Developer response:** ❤️ ### 5/5 — Developer *2022-03-18, version 3.4* Very Responsive and works as advertised. Would recommend. ### 5/5 — Great Tool for Video Calls *2022-03-16* I use Phonecast to bring an app up to my PC Screen when leading and sharing my screen on Video Calls. I've got other apps that do this as well....but NONE of them have been as easy to use on a consistent basis. MH Vice President of Sales **Developer response:** Thank you for your kind review, really motivating ❤️ ### 5/5 — Must have app for sharing phone in meetings *2022-01-15* This app is perfect when you want to share your phone screen duing a meeting. I often need to share a web browser screen and phone screen and I can show both of them side by side now thanks to Phone Cast. It works with multi-monitor too, which solved my issue with Apple's built in casting. (Apple's native cast takes over ALL screens which makes it tough to use in a screen sharing meeting). Phone Cast solved these issues for me. I highly recommend it. **Developer response:** Thank you for your kind review, really motivating ❤️ ### 5/5 — It works *2021-07-11, version 2.9* Very easy to use and I had no problem ### 5/5 — Works as advertised *2021-06-02, version 2.5* I previously always recommended Reflector, but PhoneCast allows me to display my iPhone or iPad on my mac when doing screensharing, and at a much lower cost. Will gladly recommend! ### 5/5 — This is really neat! *2021-01-28, version 1.6* Works well, as advertised! Oritentation switches aren't automatic. You have to toggle your oritentation in the iPhone app. I was a bit surprised to see it was a fully universal app. The same app runs on iPhone, iPad AND Mac! One purchase unlocks them all. This developer is clearly taking advantage of quite a bunch of the latest developer features. Very cool stuff. ### 4/5 — Lag *2022-12-08* The quality if the screenshare is definetly very good (albeit maybe not worth the price). While it also runs at a high consistant frame rate, there is VERY large and noticable lag. If you could please fix this that would be great, because it fails at one of its advertized purposes, gaming. And please respond to this post if you can. ### 4/5 — Cash grab, but it works *2021-08-04* It works. I mistakenly thought this would let me use the mouse to interact with the phone screen, i.e., play games with the mouse, but it doesn't work like that. It doesn't advertise itself that way so that's my bad. Also, resolution is terrible unless you pay $5 extra. I don't mind the bad resolution but just a heads up. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review and your kind words. The quality and resolution has been improved as part of the latest update. Please give it another try and do update the rating if you see the improvements. Thank you 🙏 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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