Beam vs MeowDisplay

See your Mac on your iPhone or iPad, and control it from there. Beam streams your Mac's screen and sound to your phone. Tap to click, type with real Mac keys, run your own shortcuts and macros, and play Mac games with a controller. Answer a prompt on the Mac from the couch. Keep a film going in bed. Watch a render finish from the kitchen, then tap in when it needs you. CONTROL YOUR MAC FROM YOUR PHONE • Click mode: tap to click, double or triple tap, touch and hold then lift to right-click, touch and hold then move to drag, slide two fingers to scroll • Live keyboard with a row of Mac keys above it: esc, tab, arrows, home, end, page up and down, F1 to F12, plus command, option, control and shift (tap for one use, hold to lock) • A bar of up to eight buttons you design in Beacon on the Mac: keys and shortcuts, media keys, recorded macros, a text box, the live keyboard and click mode • Pair a game controller with your iPhone or iPad and your Mac sees a real gamepad. No driver to install. STREAM YOUR MAC • Your whole Mac display, or one window you pick from the phone • Mac audio on your phone, or turn it off • About 25 ms typical delay on good home Wi-Fi • Up to 4K or your Mac display's native resolution • Up to 120 fps on ProMotion iPhones and iPads when your Mac's display runs that fast • Picture in Picture, pinch to zoom, and crop to one area of the screen • Flip the picture for teleprompter glass SET UP IN ABOUT 2 MINUTES 1. Install the free Beacon app on your Mac from beamscreen.app. It needs macOS 14 or later. 2. Open Beam on the same Wi-Fi and tap Pair Your Mac. 3. Type the 6-digit code Beacon shows. You only pair once. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • The stream goes straight from your Mac to your phone. It never passes through a Beam server. • The picture, the sound, your clicks and everything you type are encrypted end to end with keys from your pairing. • No account, no sign-up, no email. • Beam and Beacon are open source under AGPL-3.0. FREE, THEN BEAM UNLIMITED • Your first stream starts a 3-day trial with no limits. • After that, 30 minutes of streaming in every 24 hours on your home Wi-Fi, with every feature and every quality setting. • Beam Unlimited is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It removes the time limit and lets you stream and control your Mac from anywhere over your own Tailscale network (free for personal use). GOOD TO KNOW • Clicking and typing from the phone need Accessibility permission for Beacon on the Mac. • Beam shows and controls your Mac's screen. It doesn't add a second display, move files or sync the clipboard. • Beacon runs on Macs only, not Windows or Linux. • Beam needs iOS 16 or later. Questions go to support@beamscreen.app. A person reads every message, usually within a day.

MeowDisplay puts your Mac on your iPhone or iPad: as a mirror of one of its screens, as an extra display you can drag windows onto, or as just the Mac windows you pick, side by side. DISPLAY • Mirror: show one of your Mac's displays on your device • Extend: add a display your Mac arranges like any other monitor • Window view: show just the Mac windows you pick, side by side, up to 9 on iPad; swap, resize and rotate each one • Stage Peek: hold the screen edge to flip through your Mac's windows • Use more than one device at once, each mirroring or extending your Mac • Sharp, low-latency video with optional Mac system audio and A/V Sync • Picture in Picture keeps your Mac on screen while you use another app CONTROL • Direct Touch with Natural Touch: tap to click, swipe to scroll, press then move to drag, touch and hold to right-click • Trackpad: move a pointer with familiar gestures • Multi-finger gestures for Mission Control, Spaces, Spotlight and more • A keyboard with a typing strip, a Control Tray for modifier keys, a customizable Function Tray, and Chords with shortcut palettes • On iPad, place the controls as an edge Strip, a floating Overlay, or your own Custom layouts • Pan and zoom the view on your device without sending anything to the Mac CONNECT • USB for the lowest latency, or local Wi-Fi • Remote Access over a private network you control • Auto-Reconnect after interruptions, and Wake & Connect for a sleeping Mac on its local network, where supported TRY IT WITHOUT A MAC Try the Demo opens a sample Mac on your device, offline, so you can explore the controls, Settings, Window view and Stage Peek first. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Devices are paired, every session is encrypted, and your devices talk to each other directly. There is no MeowDisplay account, no MeowDisplay-hosted relay, and no analytics or tracking. REQUIRES THE MAC APP Live sessions need the companion MeowDisplay app on a Mac with macOS 14 or later. Setup: https://meowdisplay.app/docs MeowDisplay is open source under the GPL-3.0 license, built on the OpenDisplay project: https://github.com/raiseCatError/meowdisplay