Yet another Hacker News

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

48 points chanana 2 hours ago 6 comments

gumby 2 hours ago | parent

Apple supports this already on the ipad by making the ipad another screen for your mac (I think it’s called sidecar?) and still use pencil, mouse, keyboard etc.

Iphone is novel though, but does a pencil work?

jasonjmcghee 1 hour ago | parent

My guess is this is meant to be a no friction VNC (though it doesn't seem to be using VNC). So you can be away from home and remote in.

There are VNC clients on iphone / ipad - but generally it's whole desktop.

RealVNC is the name brand but it's not exactly a good experience. "Screens 5" looks like a better alternative.

jscheel 51 minutes ago | parent

individual windows and touch are not supported by sidecar, afaik

GeekyBear 40 minutes ago | parent

Touch support was added this year.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597

alin23 1 hour ago | parent

Brilliant! So much faster and seamless than VNC. Already helped me two times today.

This is the first time I discover an app through a Youtube video recommendation. I was watching The Rest Is Science when this 1 minute video appeared on the right side with 230k views about a macOS app?? It got me curious for sure.

Claude got really good at making demo videos with Hyperframes apparently. Just did my own this week for Cling (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and users are already appreciating that they can discover app features through easy to digest video snippets.

Most people don't read the website copy at all unfortunately so I had to adapt. But I would never have the patience to do that in After Effects.

Surac 22 minutes ago | parent

Is a windows support planed? Seeing a windows window on iPad and control it with touch\pen