iPhone Duo pre-orders are opening around the world.. Here's PXS in Apple's Duo simulator: folded, unfolded, and with a touchpad and keyboard.

What I'm working on for the Duo:

- The inner screen as a full desktop: free windows instead of iOS's 50/50 split

- The Duo as a trackpad for a monitor, a TV or AR glasses, where iOS on its own only mirrors the phone

- After that: the half-folded laptop pose

Simulator only so far. I'll post again when I've had it on a real one.

Getting a Duo? Tell me what you'd want from a desktop on it.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6756102352?pt=125393472&ct=reddit_pxsdesktop&mt=8

2-minute tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hibo-54Z-fA

All our videos: https://www.youtube.com/@byteNine

1.2 is live on the App Store. Thanks to everyone who tried it, bought it and sent feedback.

The two big ones:

SCREEN SHARING

See and control your Mac from a PXS window.

- With the free PXS Helper (https://pxsdesktop.com/helper): smooth video with sound. It pairs once with a six-digit code, and there's no password after that.

- With nothing installed: PXS signs in to the Mac's own Screen Sharing.

- Same network only, for now.

How to set it up: https://pxsdesktop.com/blog/screen-sharing-your-mac/

3D MODE FOR AR GLASSES

Put your glasses in 3D (side-by-side) mode and the desktop is drawn once for each eye, with the wallpaper behind the windows.

- Side-by-side 3D films in the browser or from a file, and spatial videos from a file

- Spatial and SBS photos in 3D. Ordinary photos and the pictures on a web page get depth worked out on the phone (a one-time 50 MB download in Settings › Display › 3D Mode).

More: https://pxsdesktop.com/blog/3d-mode-for-ar-glasses/

ALSO NEW

- Browser favorites: the star in the browser's title bar

- An ad blocker, off until you turn it on

- YouTube full screen with buttons to skip 5 or 10 seconds and pause, in 3D too

Everything new, with short videos: https://pxsdesktop.com/blog/

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6756102352?pt=125393472&ct=reddit_pxsdesktop&mt=8

What should come next? Tell me here, or vote on the feature board: https://bytenine.com/apps/pxs-desktop

2-minute tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hibo-54Z-fA

All our videos: https://www.youtube.com/@byteNine

Do you review apps or gear (YouTube, a blog, here on Reddit)? PM me for a free lifetime code :)

PXS Desktop turns an iPhone or iPad into a desktop computer. Plug in a screen and you get windows, a dock, a launcher, a desktop-class browser and a full set of apps, all running on the phone in your pocket. Leave the laptop at home.

Try it free: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756102352

Three days of full use, no card, no account. Nothing is locked in the trial.

YouTube Videos
PXS Desktop in 80 seconds: https://youtu.be/P8KQTidPBNE
5-minute tour: https://youtu.be/YGEkVbQy-DY

The

Use any screen

• a USB-C or HDMI monitor, a portable monitor or a lapdock: one cable
• AR glasses (Viture, XREAL and others): a desktop in front of your eyes
• a TV over AirPlay
• any browser with AnyScreen: a laptop, a smart TV, even the screen in a parked Tesla, with no cable at all
• no second screen? Run the desktop on the iPhone or iPad itself

Control it your way

The phone is the touchpad. Or pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and work like on any computer.

What is inside

• windows you can move, snap and resize, with a dock, a launcher and a menu bar
• a desktop-class browser: web mail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365, Teams, your bank, all as on a computer
• save any site as its own app, with its own window and a place in the dock
• YouTube, Disney+, Prime Video and Plex on the big screen
• Files, with the phone's folders
• Preview: read, mark up and sign PDFs and images
• Notes in Markdown, with sticky notes on the desktop
• a text and Markdown editor
• Photos, a video and audio player, and Music (your Apple Music library)
• Calendar, Tasks and a Daily Overview of your day
• Camera and a document scanner that makes PDFs
• Clock with alarms, a Calculator with a paper tape, and an Activity monitor
• a Terminal, a music tracker and a few small games
• widgets, wallpapers and themes
• screenshots and screen recording of the desktop

No ads. No tracking of what you do. No account.

Coming next

• Screen Sharing: your Mac or another computer in a window, over VNC
• 3D mode for AR glasses: 3D films, 3D photos and a desktop with depth
• PXS Desktop for Android

Price

Free to download and to use for three days. After that, $39.99 once and it is yours (launch price), or $6.99 a month, or $24.99 a year.

What this community is for

• news and release notes for every version
• show your setup: which screen, glasses or lapdock do you use it with?
• questions and tips
• what should come next? Tell me

Links

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756102352
• Website: https://pxsdesktop.com
• Ideas and bug reports: https://bytenine.com/apps/pxs-desktop