MirrorAct
Mirror, frame and record your iPhone or iPad on your Mac – via USB or AirPlay. Device frames, backgrounds, screenshots, recordings, presentation mode. Open source (GPL-3.0).
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Details
- External ID
- 1409918740
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- MirrorAct
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.29
- Tags
- airplay, device-frames, ipad, iphone, macos, mockups, presentation, screen-mirroring, screen-recording, swift, swiftui, videotoolbox
Enrichment
- Niche
- screen mirroring and casting software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen mirroring and recording tool for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and device framing features are straightforward, but capturing low-latency screen video streams from iOS devices over USB/AirPlay requires specialized macOS system APIs and protocol handling.
What it would actually take: Built in Swift/Objective-C using macOS AVFoundation and CoreMedia frameworks. The difficult component is interfacing with the undocumented QuickTime USB mirroring protocol (using libimobiledevice / usbmuxd equivalents) or emulating an AirPlay receiver server with real-time RTSP/H.264 decoding and frame-accurate playback.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 735 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #709 of 736 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TetherCam · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ioscli · github · 2026-10-04 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Wispframe · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- device-hub-pro · github · 2026-10-06 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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