Luna Display for Pc

I have only started using this app for less than an hour, and I can already say that it’s the best second display app by far (over Duet Display I have used for more than a year). The quality of the screen is amazing especially for the Retina resolution. It’s so, so crisp 🤤. Text and photos look amazing on this app. When content changes quickly, the app chooses to maintain frame rate instead of the rendering quality, so you may see coarse frames for a brief moment, and that’s a fine approach Astro took. Color accuracy is insane. Photos on the app look indistinguishable from photos on native iPad when looking at them side by side (with Slide-Over). I can see why artists absolutely love this app for this. One big plus for this app is that you can switch apps on iPad from this app to another app, and then back to this app again, and it wouldn’t lose the connection. I do this often as a developer. This is something that, so far, only this app can deliver and such continuity feels so amazing. EDIT: this is actually not true. the app will lose connection once iOS puts in in the background. However, this is not what the app advertises. MORE EDIT: this app almost always needs a cable to work well for me. This can be a drawback for many, but not for me personally, so I still enjoy the app immensely. Thank you Astro HQ. I am absolutely in love with this app ❤️.

UPDATE: I still love my this app. The only issue that I have had is that after using it for several hours, the display gets laggy (I use this over WiFi). At that point I have to disconnect, close the apps on both sides and restart to get it to run smoothly again. I got my this app a couple of days ago and I already can’t imagine being without it. I love always having a second screen and being able to walk away from my computer without walking away from my computer monitor. Setup is incredibly easy and only took a few seconds. It has been 100% reliable for me using a 10.5” iPad Pro and a 2017 MacBook Pro. I would recommend this to everyone!

This is definitely better than duet. It supports retina, has a reasonable frame rate, and supports touch gestures. I love the Astropad app and use it frequently. I have three main complaints: 1) Despite what their webpage says, you cannot practically use this over WiFi. The frame rate is around 2 FPS and it takes a couple of seconds to send those frames over. The other two items in this list are when using wired mode only. 2) Even in wired mode, there’s still quite a bit of latency. It’s about a quarter of a second, which doesn’t sound like much, but it’s definitely noticeable when scrolling, typing, and moving windows around. Having retina on or off did not seem to affect this. 3. To maintain frame rate, the screen drops resolution. Sounds reasonable, however their method of downscaling ends up crushing text, making anything in the moving area (like a webpage) is completely unreadable until you stop moving and it has a chance to catch up. This is a minor issue, however, and doesn’t really mess up usability. I’d rather the app downscale than do what duet does and drop most of the frames. This definitely shows promise, and if duet could fix the latency issue over wired and adjust their downsampling algorithm to avoid messing up text I’d bump them up to a 5 star. Hardware used: 2012 MacBook Pro (with discrete GT 650M and quad core i7) and an iPad Pro 10.5 inch

I have no complains, only praises for the experience with Apple Pencil that Lunar provides. It works flawlessly, like a real drawing tablet and much more superior to Duet. However, it has an issue. I often mirror my display rather than extend it, but every time I reconnect Lunar, I have to setup my display again. The app doesn’t save the last setup. In the aspect, the experience is not as smooth and effortless as the Duet, which immediately loads my last display setup when my iPad is connected. Lunar Display, your product is awesome, but please improve your app to make the experience even better. Thanks!