Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse

Re:Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse by Shank on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:50PM (#50429803)

I really want an evaluation of all of these classes of remote desktop systems and latency. Almost all of my remote display experiences have been mediocre due to lag. Maybe my tolerance is too low? How is the latency on this product?

Only RDP has felt truly responsive to me, and my understanding is that it cheats by not sending raster graphics and instead drawing primaries directly on the remote system and then updating the state based on the server?

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Re:Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse by raiseCatError on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#50430121)

I agree, I have benchmarks planned for the future.

As far as the latency on MeowDisplay, In my testing on Wifi, I measured around 14-17ms median from capture to receiver handoff, not e2e. I've also seen occasional spikes around 50-90ms and some stalled frames, you do notice the stalls but overall it's pretty responsive.

I've preferred to show the cursor as it is on the mac instead of rendering it locally on the phone which may make it feel smoother but the trade-off is that it may not accurately represent where the cursor actually is on the mac if things lag or hang.

Then again, it does depend on the connection.

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