Your iPad, iPhone and Android,
now displays for your Mac.

microDisplay is a menu bar app that turns iPads, iPhones and Android devices into wireless extended displays for your Mac — up to three at once. On the device, just scan a QR code in a browser. Nothing to install, no App Store.

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Free 2-day trial after install · macOS 15 or later (Apple silicon) · viewer: iPhone, iPad, Android — anything with a browser, even a PC

01 Wireless extended displays

Your desktop, physically bigger.

Connect up to three devices at once — iPad, iPhone, Android — each one an independent extended display, not a mirror. Docs on the iPad, Slack on the iPhone: your Mac desk simply grows.

02 Connect with a browser

No app.
Just scan a QR.

Pick “Start a display” from the menu bar and a QR code appears. Point the device's camera at it, and it becomes a display in seconds. The viewer is served from the public domain md.microai.jp, so there are no certificate warnings.

Any device with a browser works — iPhone, iPad, Android, even a spare PC. The URL never changes, so a bookmark or home-screen shortcut (PWA) is the fastest route next time.

Start a display
md.microai.jp Point the device's camera at the code
Connected — display 3
03 Ultra-low latency

The cursor never lags.

From receive to draw in a measured 2–3 ms. A custom WebCodecs path bypasses WebRTC's jitter buffer entirely (100 ms+ on iOS, uncontrollable). Grab a window and the second screen moves with it — the way it should, wirelessly.

Receive → draw (measured)
2–3 ms
Typical WebRTC (jitter buffer) 100 ms+ · uncontrollable
microDisplay (WebCodecs direct) 2–3 ms
04 Adaptive streaming

Shaky Wi-Fi?
It keeps flowing.

Measured queue delay feeds back into the encoder, stepping bitrate → frame rate → resolution automatically. Keeping latency low always wins; quality gives way only as much as needed. Even on crowded office Wi-Fi, the video keeps moving.

Wi-Fi good Congestion — adapting
42 Mbps · 60 fps 9 Mbps · 30 fps
Steps: bitrate → fps → resolution Latency never queues
05 Live stats overlay

See the numbers for yourself.

Long-press with two fingers for a live stats overlay: fps, latency, active bitrate, queue delay. The readout is burned into the video itself, so it stays visible even in full screen.

fps60.0
latency2.8 ms
bitrate24.5 Mbps
queue0.3 ms
06 Sharp HiDPI

Text stays sharp.

A virtual display is generated to match your device's exact viewport — native resolution, no scaling, no stretching, Retina-crisp text. Rotation and going full screen are followed on the spot.

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Mirroring (stretched) microDisplay — native 2× HiDPI, auto-generated
07 Tap, drag and pinch

A display you can touch.

Tap to click, one-finger drag to scroll. Flick to scroll with momentum — tap to stop. Long-press and a blue ring signals drag & drop (Android vibrates); release in place for a right-click. While pinch-zoomed, taps map to what you actually see — zoom in and hit small buttons precisely.

Long-press → drag & drop Pinch-zoom → tap precisely
08 Self-healing

Drops? It comes back by itself.

A streaming watchdog and automatic retries keep watch. After a disconnect the display is preserved for 8 seconds — reconnect and it resumes as the same display, window layout intact. A Wi-Fi dip doesn't derail your work.

Reconnecting — display preserved Holding window layout for 8 seconds
Connected Reconnecting… Back — same layout
09 Trust no relay

The relay can't
see your screen.

The secret key lives only in the QR code (URL fragment) and is never sent to the server. Endpoints verify each other with HMAC signatures, and video flows LAN-direct, DTLS-encrypted end to end. All that touches the relay is a few KB of signaling. Suspect the QR leaked? Regenerate the connection URL from Settings with one click — every old bookmark is instantly invalidated.

On networks where a direct path is impossible — tethering, client isolation, cellular — it falls back automatically to an encrypted TURN relay. Even then the relay only carries packets it cannot decrypt: no one but your devices ever sees the screen.

Relay Only a few KB of signaling pass through
Mac
iPhone / iPad
DTLS-encrypted · end-to-end
Video stream — LAN-direct by default 3 KB

How is it different from Sidecar?

Sidecar is a great built-in feature of macOS. microDisplay covers everything outside its conditions.

microDisplay Sidecar
iPhone as a display Yes — iPad only
Device on a different Apple Account Any account Same account required
Reviving an old iPad Fine if a browser runs Supported models only
Device-side setup Scan a QR — nothing to install None on supported iPads
Touch control Tap · scroll · drag & drop Apple Pencil only
Simultaneous displays Up to 3 1
10 Menu bar resident

Quietly, in the menu bar.

Light, and out of the way. On an offline LAN with no internet, it falls back to a local path and keeps working.

microDisplay File Edit View Help 10:09
microDisplay Waiting for a device…
Stop display
Open this on your iPad / iPhone
md.microai.jp/#r=xK4mQ9vZpN&k=fR7sWn2bTe8…
Placement — which side of the main display
Settings…
About microDisplay
Quit microDisplay ⌘Q

Simple pricing

One license for your Macs. Try everything free for 2 days.

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Your license key is available from the link in the purchase email, and follows your microAI account. Checkout is handled by a Merchant of Record, taxes included. The number of Macs a license can activate is limited.

Your desk gets bigger today.

That iPad in a drawer, the iPhone in your pocket — put them back to work.

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Free 2-day trial · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon