opendisplay

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What it does

An editorial selection.

Use an iPhone, iPad or spare Mac as a real second display for your Mac.

Why it is listed

Turns idle devices into monitors without Sidecar's restrictions. The maintainer is away until Nov 17.

GitHub describes it as: Use an iPhone, iPad, or spare Mac as a true second display for your Mac without restrictions.

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 5,942
Forks: 400
Open issues: 134
Merged PRs: 169
Commits, last 30 days: 73
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Rust
Licence: GPL-3.0
Created: 10 Jun 2026
Last push: 27 Oct 2026
Latest release: v1.30.0 · 27 Oct 2026
Category: Desktop & Device Utilities
Topics: duet-display external-display ipad iphone macos screen-extension screencapturekit second-monitor sidecar swift
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

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Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by peetzweg.

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Development context

These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.

Total commits on default branch: 356
Open pull requests: 46
Closed issues, lifetime: 69
Median time to close an issue: 7.7 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 0.0 days

Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.

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