peetzweg/opendisplay
- Total stars
- 4,800
- Today
- +2
More actions
Use an iPhone, iPad, or spare Mac as a true second display for your Mac without restrictions.
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About the project
Free open-source alternative to Apple Sidecar and Duet Display: turns an iPhone, iPad or spare Mac into a true second monitor for your Mac over USB or WiFi with touch input.
Useful for
- Plug in an iPhone via cable as a second monitor for a Mac laptop
- Use an old iPad as an extra Retina display over WiFi
- Repurpose an old 2015 Mac as an external monitor for a newer Mac
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 25, 2026, 10:07 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- 2 stars so far today, about 11 expected by the end of the day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 10% of the previous week and a half.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 26, 2026
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 25, 2026, 10:07 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 4,800
- Today
- +2 stars on 2026-09-25 (UTC), ≈ 11 by evening
- Forks
- 317
- Issues and pull requests
- 308
- Watchers
- 18
- Language
- Swift
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v1.22.0 · September 23, 2026
- Created
- June 10, 2026
- Last push
- September 23, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 15, 2026GitHub Trending today: #19, +229 stars
- September 14, 2026GitHub Trending today: #19, +258 stars
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