Use a monitor with your iPad or iPhone as a second screen!
Work with your iPad and place things on your monitor.
Connect your external monitor via cable or AirPlay and start using your monitor in fullscreen.
**Please make sure that you can connect your device to a monitor using a cable or AirPlay.**
No more black bars around your monitor, shiftscreen brings you fullscreen external display support.
Work with the integrated web-browser, the PDF-viewer, the integrated webapps or the calculator app.
Boost your productivity by working with your monitor as a second screen while doing other things on your iPad in split-view. Or use your iPhone as a full computer and as a trackpad for the monitor.
What’s new in 4X?
- full mouse and trackpad support
- 60 fps support on your monitor
- windows and tabs in the web-browser
- over 50 customizable keyboard shortcuts
- 2x the resolution on the monitor
- rotate your monitor and configure it however you want
- change the colors and feel of the app
- zoom-in-mode: view a specific part of your monitor on your iPad or iPhone
shiftscreen will improve your productivity and completely change the way you use you monitor.
I was going to buy a 2nd hand iMac or Mac mini to bridge a gap of the next few months before I buy the next gen MacBook Pro 13 inch. However, by chance I came across this app and it’s functionality with a second display. This has saved me a couple of hunded €! I LOVE IT! All I can say is get this app. Turns your iPad into a desktop pretty much. Huge well done to the creator Yannik, who is only 20 years old 🤯
Not magic — just web apps
This is just a single app using the usual APIs to create UIViews on a second screen. It’s most useful in letting you run webapps in multiple windows.
It’s *not* doing some crazy magic to let you run multiple native iOS apps on the second screen. It still has to be present on the main iPad display — at least in splitview — otherwise iOS will display whatever app you switch to.
This is all visible in the videos presented and in the screenshots, albeit in a slightly misleading fashion.
This is simply a limitation of the iOS platform: it’s a fun idea, but it’s much less useful than I expected. I’m not sure whether to refund it; EUR7.99 is tolerable for a unique app, but it’s still quite a bit more if I (as expected) can’t use it to move native apps to a second display.