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.
Details
- External ID
- 1385097866
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ipadScreen
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5840379195490648
- Tags
- extended-display, ios6, ipad, jailbreak, legacy-ios, libjpeg-turbo, macos, objective-c, screencapturekit, second-display, swift, theos
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- foldable and dual-screen UI utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- extended display driver using legacy ipads for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 299 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #142 of 300 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- SideMini · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- imac-second-display · github · 2026-09-22 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Any Display · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- MacStatusBarAndDock · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- QwikDim · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ipad_computer_use · github · 2026-09-15 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AirMirror Pro · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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