ipadScreen
Use an old jailbroken iPad (iOS 6+, tested on iPad 2) as a real extended display for your Mac, over USB or Wi-Fi. Native iOS 6 app with libjpeg-turbo NEON, ~35 fps.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: screen mirroring and casting software · 76 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- extended-display
- ios6
- ipad
- jailbreak
- legacy-ios
- libjpeg-turbo
- +6 more
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Could you build this?
No Building this requires low-level iOS 6 jailbreak tweaks, custom virtual display driver development for macOS, low-latency video streaming, and ARM NEON SIMD assembly optimization.
What it would actually take: The project requires writing a virtual display driver for macOS (using DriverKit or CoreGraphics private APIs) to capture framebuffers, compressing them using SIMD/NEON-accelerated libjpeg-turbo, and streaming them over usbmuxd or raw TCP sockets. On the iPad side, it requires legacy Objective-C/C code compiling against iOS 6 SDKs using OpenGL ES to blit decoded frames to the screen at ~35 fps with minimal latency. This demands deep specialized knowledge of low-level systems programming, video codecs, and legacy Apple kernel/driver internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 662 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #321 of 663 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- Remote Gaze · ph · 2026-11-03 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ps5-airplay · github · 2026-10-12 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MirrorAct · github · 2026-10-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Beaming · ph · 2026-11-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SpareScreen · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Henge · github · 2026-11-02 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SideMini · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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