BetterCast Display vs PassPony

Requires a Mac. BetterCast Display is a receiver: it shows your Mac's screen on this device. You must install the free BetterCast Sender app on a Mac (bettercast.online) and have both devices on the same Wi-Fi network. Turn your iPhone or iPad into a high-performance wireless display for your Mac. BetterCast streams your Mac screen to your iOS device with hardware-level encoding for near-zero latency at 60 FPS. Use it as a portable second monitor, a mirror for presentations, or a dedicated preview display — all without cables, dongles, or paid subscriptions. SETUP IN SECONDS Install BetterCast Sender on your Mac (free download at bettercast.online) Connect both devices to the same Wi-Fi network Select your device from the Sender app — your Mac display appears instantly BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE Hardware-accelerated H.264/HEVC encoding for minimal CPU usage Adaptive bitrate to match your network conditions Native 4K support with crystal-clear text rendering 60 FPS smooth playback with ultra-low latency DESIGNED FOR REAL WORK Extend or mirror any Mac display Touch input relay for interactive control from your device Aspect fill mode to eliminate letterboxing Custom device naming for multi-device setups Persistent auto-reconnect to known senders COMPLETELY FREE No subscriptions. No ads. No watermarks. BetterCast is built to be the wireless display tool you can rely on every day, at no cost. Requirements: macOS 13+ with BetterCast Sender installed. iOS 15+. Both devices must be on the same local network. What's New in This Version: Version 1.3 introduces a redesigned onboarding with a step-by-step setup guide, improved Bonjour sender discovery with instant connect, a new Settings tab with audio toggle and aspect fill controls, an enhanced video pipeline for smoother 60 FPS playback, expanded iPad support, and a real-time sender search status indicator.

PassPony is a password manager for people who want to own their passwords. Every entry is one encrypted file in a store you control, in the same format as the pass and passage command line tools. Your Mac, your server, and your phone can all work on the same store. WHY A FILE-BASED STORE One entry, one file: the password on the first line, anything else after it. Encrypted with your keys: age identities for passage stores, OpenPGP keys for pass stores. Synced with git: clone your existing store, publish a new one, and resolve conflicts per entry, never with a silent merge. Interoperable: commits match the pass CLI format, so the store stays fully usable from the desktop tools. EVERYDAY USE QuickType autofill: your passes appear above the keyboard when you sign in. Only entry names are indexed; nothing decrypts until you fill. Live one-time codes: entries with an otpauth line show a TOTP code with a countdown ring. Face ID or Touch ID unlock, with a five-minute grace window shared with autofill. Ephemeral clipboard: copies are local only and clear after 45 seconds. Field-level editing that preserves the exact bytes of lines it does not touch. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account, no signup, no PassPony server. The only network connection is the git remote you configure. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Open source, Apache-2.0. The full app and its Rust core are published in a public git repository for anyone to audit. FORMATS passage stores encrypt with modern age identities. pass stores encrypt with OpenPGP keys (Cv25519 and X25519/Ed25519 in software). RSA-keyed stores need a smartcard, which is not supported yet. Each format keeps its own store; switching never touches the other. Localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. If you already run pass or passage, PassPony is the missing phone half of your setup. If you have never used them, the first-run tour will have you adding your first pass in about a minute.