Mirror Local Cast vs Peekside

Mirror Local Cast makes it easy to present your entire iPhone or iPad screen on a Chromecast or Cast-enabled Sony TV over the same local Wi-Fi network. Choose your TV, tap Start Presenting, select Mirror Broadcast, and open Keynote, PowerPoint, Photos, Files, Safari, or another visual presentation app. Mirror preserves the complete screen: - Portrait presentations are centered with black side bars. - Landscape presentations use the TV's full width. - Video is optimized for responsive visual presentations. Mirror is free and does not require an account or a hosted relay server. Screen content travels directly across your local Wi-Fi network to the selected Cast receiver. Audio is not streamed. Mirror is designed for slides, documents, photos, websites, demonstrations, and other visual presentations. Requirements: - iPhone or iPad and TV connected to the same Wi-Fi network - Chromecast or a Cast-enabled Sony TV - Local network and screen broadcast permissions

Peekside puts one screen on another screen, over your own Wi-Fi. An iPhone, iPad, or Mac can send. An iPhone, iPad, or Mac can watch. Every pairing works, so a phone can mirror to another phone just as easily as to a Mac. Nothing is uploaded. There is no server in the middle, no account to create, and no sign-in. The picture goes straight from one device to the other and stops there. Pair once, then tap a device and pick what you want: send your screen, watch theirs, or read their captions. Nothing starts until the other person allows it on their device. FREE CORE * No watermark * No session time limit imposed by Peekside * One watcher at a time * App audio with the live picture * Adaptive quality for changing Wi-Fi conditions * A connection HUD with latency and bitrate * Automatic reconnection after brief network changes PEEKSIDE PRO, ONE-TIME PURCHASE * Live Text, copy text straight out of the moving picture * Instant Replay, rewind the last 60 seconds without recording * Follow-zoom, keep the busy part of the screen framed * Annotation, draw on the feed with pen, highlighter, and arrows * Recording, save the feed and your annotations as a movie * Higher resolution when the link can carry it * Guidance, point and draw on the other screen to walk someone through something * Companion Cue, type a line that appears along the bottom of their screen * Audio Mute, silence the mirrored sound on your device while the picture keeps playing * Presentation mode, a clean full-screen feed with the controls hidden * Kids Mode, hand your child a device that shows only what you share, until you end it with a PIN HONEST LIMITS Peekside is view-only. The watching device cannot tap, type, or drive the device it is watching. An iPhone or iPad sends its screen or its captions, one or the other, not both in the same session. A Mac can send both at once. Protected video appears black. That is the operating system blocking capture, and Peekside does not work around it. Sharing stops when the sharer's iPhone or iPad locks, and there it always starts through Apple's own picker. Kids Mode keeps a child in Peekside only when a grown-up turns on Apple's Guided Access on that device. Peekside cannot lock a device by itself. Kids Mode never shows you the child's screen, and it works with one device at a time. Peekside needs two devices on the same Wi-Fi network. It does not work over the internet, by design. Some features need Peekside Pro.