PXS External Screen Desktop vs TypeDraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PXS External Screen Desktop
Transform your phone into a full desktop experience with windows, a dock, and a browser. Connect to AR glasses, monitors, TVs, or even a web browser. Use your phone as a trackpad and keyboard, or pair external devices for a complete laptop feel.
- Desktop environment with windows
- Desktop-class tabbed browser
- Connect to AR glasses, monitors, TVs
- Phone as trackpad/keyboard
- Install websites as apps
- Screen sharing from PC
- Voice dictation for input
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Leave the laptop at home — your phone IS the computer. PXS Desktop turns your phone into a real desktop: windows, a dock, a launcher, a desktop-class browser — on AR glasses, a monitor, a TV, or even a web browser. Your phone becomes the trackpad and keyboard. Pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for the full laptop feel. FOUR WAYS TO GET A SCREEN • Cable — AR display glasses (Viture, XREAL, RayNeo, Rokid, Lenovo Legion Glasses), any USB-C monitor or portable display, HDMI via adapter • Screen Mirroring — Apple TV, a Mac, or any AirPlay 2 TV • AnyScreen — any modern browser becomes your display: a laptop, a smart TV, even the browser in your parked car • Open on this screen — the desktop right on an iPad or iPhone Duo WIRED? CHECK YOUR CABLE Charging cables carry power only — including the white one in your iPhone box. A wired screen needs a USB-C cable that supports video (DisplayPort Alt Mode): the cable that came with your glasses or monitor, a Thunderbolt cable, or Apple's USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter for HDMI. UNFOLD IT On iPhone Duo the desktop fills the big inner screen. Half folded, it stands like a laptop: the desktop on top, a touchpad or a game controller below. A REAL DESKTOP • Windows you can move, resize, snap, minimize and fullscreen • A desktop-class tabbed browser — Gmail, Google Docs, Office, video calls with camera and mic (Teams, Meet), file downloads • Reader view: any article in clean, larger text, or read aloud • Install any website as an app with its own icon • Your phone's own apps in the dock and launcher, opening on the phone • Screen Sharing: your Mac or Windows PC in a window, with sound via the free PXS Helper • Play cloud games with a controller, or with your phone as one • Spotlight-style launcher with voice input and natural-language commands • Files, Photos, Notes, Preview (PDF markup), Camera and scanner, Clock with alarms, Calculator, video, text editor, terminal, games • Daily Overview: calendar, tasks and weather • A spoken greeting when you connect, in a natural voice that runs offline • Themes and chrome styles, movable widgets, on-screen keyboard TALK INSTEAD OF TYPING Press Dictate under the trackpad, or the microphone in the menu bar, and speak into any field — a web form, an email, a search box. It all happens on your iPhone, so nothing is sent anywhere and it works with no signal. Requires iOS 26. MADE FOR AR GLASSES PXS was built for the pocket-computer dream: glasses on your face, phone in your hand, a huge desktop nobody else can see. If your glasses act as a USB-C display, they work. Switch them to 3D and the desktop gets depth, and 3D films and photos show in 3D. TRY IT FREE FIRST Your free trial starts when you first connect a screen — not when you install — so no trial time is wasted waiting for your glasses to arrive. After that, one purchase makes it yours forever: $39.99 at the launch price, down from $49.99 (or $24.99/year, cancel anytime). Your setup, your signed-in apps and your files always remain yours. THE HONEST LIST We're a small shop and we'd rather tell you up front: Apple TV+ won't play in the browser (a service choice, not an iOS limit — Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple Music and Plex all play fine); copy/paste works best with a Bluetooth keyboard (⌘C/⌘V); other apps' iOS notifications can't appear on the desktop; a Bluetooth mouse needs a one-time AssistiveTouch setup, and typing in Mouse Mode wants a Bluetooth keyboard (iOS hides the touch keyboard while a mouse is connected). The spoken greeting is English only. And in a car, AnyScreen is for passengers and parked use only — never while driving. Feature requests are voted on publicly at bytenine.com — the board genuinely drives the roadmap. No ads. No tracking. No account required. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TypeDraw
This app offers a digital notebook experience where you can type, draw, and write using your own handwriting. It provides a customizable canvas with features like smart marks, handwriting conversion to fonts, and organized note-taking with a searchable table of contents. Your notes remain private on your device or can sync via iCloud.
- Type, draw, and write with custom handwriting
- Handwriting to font conversion
- Smart Marks for text and drawing integration
- Customizable page and ink colors
- Searchable table of contents
- Home Screen widgets for quick access
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Imagine a notebook so entirely your own that you can even type in your own handwriting. All the simplicity of paper, unique ways to capture your ideas and clever new ways to find them exactly when you need them. Here is that Notebook. No account required. Your notes stay local and private on your device, or sync through your own iCloud account if you choose. Your data stays yours. - Open to what matters in the moment: a fresh page, your most recent note, or a note from that restaurant you’re finally visiting again after years. Or jump straight into what you need with a beautiful Home Screen widget. - Type, draw and write anywhere, just as you would in a real notebook. Turn the pages with a curl or tap, sketch with your fingers, or use Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo. - Enjoy a free canvas where text and drawings belong together. Highlight or underline text, and your strokes automatically convert to responsive “Smart Marks” that adapt when you edit words, change line breaks or adjust the layout. - Make it yours! Turn your handwriting into a working font in just minutes, choose your page colour, ink colour, font size and text colour. Pick lined, grid or dotted paper, and explore a collection of 12 handwritten typefaces from Shaped Fonts. - Keep everything organised with a table of contents you can sort by page number, time or location...so the notes nearest to you are always easy to find. All Notes are searchable, too. - Have fun and don't take life too seriously!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PXS External Screen Desktop at Free against TypeDraw's $4.99. PXS External Screen Desktop also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). TypeDraw's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
PXS External Screen Desktop is free to download; TypeDraw costs $4.99 up front. PXS External Screen Desktop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. TypeDraw asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for PXS External Screen Desktop against 4.4 for TypeDraw. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TypeDraw has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of PXS External Screen Desktop's written reviews are positive against 86% of TypeDraw's.
PXS External Screen Desktop ships an update every 4 days, TypeDraw every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PXS External Screen Desktop | TypeDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.4 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #1 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | byteNine AS | Trautmann & Dorre GbR Shaped Agency |
Customer experience
PXS External Screen Desktop
TypeDraw
In-app purchases
PXS External Screen Desktop
- PXS Pro — Monthly$6.991 Month
- PXS Pro — Yearly$24.991 Year
- PXS Pro — Lifetime$39.99
TypeDraw
No in-app purchases





