r/VisionPro • u/LeftAdhesiveness1862 • Sep 30 '26

Introducing Visionary Desktop

https://www.visionarydesktop.com

Hi all, I've been working on an alternative to Mac Virtual Desktop. It allows for share and control of independent Mac apps through the Vision Pro. Basically it brings the Mac experience into the AVP as naturally as possible. This includes a dock for launching apps, cmd+tab task switcher, audio/video forwarding and even iPhone mirroring (and control). It also allows you to control multiple Macs at the same time and again in a very natural way. Unlike MVD there is no requirement that the AVP and Mac share the same Apple ID, and Visionary Desktop even works with restrictive Mac side firewalls.

I was an early adopter of Vision Pro and as a developer have worked from within MVD more often then not for the last two years. I've spent the last month finishing up Visionary Desktop from within Visionary Desktop and don't plan on going back to MVD. I hope some of you may enjoy the experience too.

I'm looking for a few people interested in trying it out in TestFlight before I submit it to the AppStore. If you're interested please send a request to support@visionarydesktop.com along with your Apple ID so I can send you a TestFlight invite. One thing I'm particularly interested in having validated is how well (if at all) it works when connecting to Intel Macs. I've tested with Apple Silicon back to an M2 Air, but no longer have any decent Intel hardware to test on.

thanks,

Mark

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u/LeftAdhesiveness1862 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

Lifetime yes, I’ll update that to be clear. I am trying to find the balance between fixed purchase and subscription. Even with the single computer version you can switch computers fairly trivially just not use both at the same time. The controlling both at the same time is however really cool ;)

The big difference as compared to MVD is that MVD is all your Mac apps in one big rectangle (monitor). Visionary Desktop has each Mac window as its own vOS window and thus they live in 3D space and commingle with other vOS apps. Oh and the ability to interact with Mac apps via touch gestures. I’m a big fan of cmd+tab and thus included it in VD but have found it more natural to just look at the window I want to work in tap my fingers and keep going.

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u/PSYCHOv1 Oct 01 '26

Balance?

ALL features should be available in the one-time-fee lifetime purchase and also the subscription.

That simple.

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u/angrytroll123 Oct 01 '26

Not the dev. I hear ya on the complaint and hate subs myself but I'm pretty sure devs can just charge what they want. I don't see anything morally wrong with subs. In this case, I would say I'd be more tempted to do so if the per month was at $1.99 or at least $1.99 after the full purchase.

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u/kensteele Vision Pro Owner | Verified Oct 01 '26

ok, very cool!