macOS · free & open source
MirrorDeck turns your Mac into a wireless screen-mirroring target. Pick it from Control Center and your phone appears in a window — then reach in and use it with your mouse and keyboard.
Video comes off the phone the same way an Apple TV receives it. Control is a separate channel travelling the other way — which is why one works instantly and the other asks something of you.
Your Mac advertises itself on the network. Open Control Center on your iPhone, tap Screen Mirroring, pick your Mac, and the screen shows up in a device-shaped window — hardware-decoded, about one frame of latency. Nothing to install on the phone.
Click to tap, drag to swipe, scroll to scroll, type to type. Arrow keys move between home screens. It drives the real device, not a simulator — but iOS only permits this through Apple's own testing tools, so it needs Xcode and a developer account.
It publishes the same network services an Apple TV does, so your iPhone lists it as a mirroring destination.
Encrypted H.264 video arrives over Wi-Fi and is decoded on the GPU, straight into the window.
Mouse and keyboard events become real touches on the device, sent over a second connection to a helper running on the phone.
Mirroring asks for very little. Control asks for more, and it is worth knowing before you download.
Mirroring works for anyone. Control is realistically for developers. If you do not already have Xcode installed, treat MirrorDeck as a mirroring tool and the control features as a bonus you may never turn on.
Download, drag to Applications, open. MirrorDeck lives in the menu bar — there is no main window until a phone connects.
# Optional: enabling control, once per phone $ git clone https://github.com/egarl004/mirrordeck.git $ cd mirrordeck && ./scripts/bootstrap.sh $ ./scripts/wda.sh install # builds and installs the helper $ ./scripts/wda.sh run # leave running while you control
Then hover the top edge of the mirror window, click Enable Control, and enter the phone's IP. It is remembered per device and reconnects next time.
MirrorDeck is released under the GPL-3.0. You can read every line, build it yourself, change it, and pass it on. It is built on the work of the UxPlay project, whose AirPlay implementation made it possible, and on Appium's WebDriverAgent for touch input.
MirrorDeck is free and always will be. If it saved you some time and you feel like putting something in the tin, it is appreciated and entirely optional.