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.
Free 2-day trial after install · macOS 15 or later (Apple silicon) · viewer: iPhone, iPad, Android — anything with a browser, even a PC
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sidecar is a great built-in feature of macOS. microDisplay covers everything outside its conditions.
Light, and out of the way. On an offline LAN with no internet, it falls back to a local path and keeps working.
One license for your Macs. Try everything free for 2 days.
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.
That iPad in a drawer, the iPhone in your pocket — put them back to work.
Free 2-day trial · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon