Comparison

SimBeam vs Day Showcase

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SimBeam

Features
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SimBeam turns your iPhone or iPad into a live remote for the iOS Simulators running on your Mac. Pair the app with your Mac once by scanning a QR code, then connect any time to see all the simulators on that Mac, open any one of them, and watch its screen as a real-time video stream. Your taps, swipes, and the Home button are sent straight back to the simulator, so you can actually use it from your device โ€” not just look at it. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข See every simulator on a paired Mac, with its iOS version and status โ€ข Stream a simulator's screen live, with low latency โ€ข Control it remotely โ€” tap, swipe, and press Home โ€ข Boot or shut down a simulator right from your device โ€ข Jump back into recent simulators in one tap from the main screen โ€ข Pair and keep multiple Macs, and switch between them any time BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS AND QA Test how a build feels in the hand without unplugging from your desk. Show a running simulator to a colleague across the room. Keep an eye on a long scenario from the couch. REQUIRES A MAC SimBeam is a companion to the SimBeam app on macOS. You need a Mac running the SimBeam companion with at least one iOS Simulator to pair with and stream from. Pairing is secure and takes a single scan. PRIVACY Your pairing identity stays on your device. SimBeam has no account to create, shows no ads, and does not track you.

About

Day Showcase

Features
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Day Showcase is the demo app for Day (daybrite.dev), a framework for creating mobile and desktop apps in Rust. Each screen in the app is a demonstration of one part of the framework: Controls: buttons, switches, sliders, steppers, pickers, text fields, a multi-line editor, date and time pickers, keyboard focus, and pointer cursors. Layout: rows, columns, and layers under each fit policy, a split with a draggable divider, and a grid with spanning cells. Navigation & chrome: a push stack, tabs, menus and dialogs, the window toolbar, and a content list that opens each item in an editor. Data: a list and a tree over live models, and queries against a local store. Graphics & media: shapes, paths, gradients, and transforms on a canvas, animation, Lottie playback, bundled resources, media playback, a map, and a web view. Platform: battery and connectivity, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer traces, HTTP requests, notifications and the app badge, speech and haptics, and files. App & tooling: localization, scripting, tweaks, a benchmark against SwiftUI, and crash reporting. The toolbar on every page has a code button that opens that page's Rust source on GitHub, so you can read the code beside the result. The star button pins a page to the top of the list, and the theme button switches the appearance. The app is translated into English, French, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. Switching the language on the Localization page updates every page in place, and Arabic mirrors the layout. Day and this app are open source. The framework is at github.com/daybrite/day and the app's source is at github.com/daybrite/Day-Showcase. Each page in the app contains a link to the underlying source code.

Screenshots

SimBeam3 screens
Day Showcase4 screens

Verdict

The call

SimBeam and Day Showcase are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimBeam ships an update every 3 days, Day Showcase every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SimBeam versus Day Showcase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimBeamDay Showcase
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKirill SidorovThe App Fair Project Inc

In-app purchases

None

SimBeam

No in-app purchases

None

Day Showcase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimBeam free?
SimBeam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Showcase free?
Day Showcase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimBeam or Day Showcase have ads?
Neither SimBeam nor Day Showcase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimBeam or Day Showcase?
SimBeam ships an update every 3 days, and Day Showcase every 2 days. Most recently, SimBeam was updated on September 30, 2026 and Day Showcase on October 10, 2026.

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