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Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

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Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad
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Sill is a new utility that allows users to mirror Mac windows or their entire desktop onto an iPhone or iPad. The app supports touch, trackpad, and Apple Pencil input, utilizing local network or VPN connections for remote access without requiring a central server.

Why it matters

It provides a lightweight, privacy-focused solution for extending Mac productivity to mobile devices, leveraging Apple's native hardware encoding.

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Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad.

Sill shows a window from your Mac, or the whole desktop, on your iPhone or iPad. You use it there with touch, a trackpad, a keyboard or Apple Pencil. Sill for Mac captures the window, encodes it as HEVC video and sends it to the Sill app on your device. Your taps, clicks, scrolls and keys go back to your Mac. Your Mac and your device connect on the same network, over a USB cable, with Direct Wireless Connection when they share no network, or through your own VPN, such as Tailscale, with Remote Access. There is no account and no server in between.

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