I have used Duet for over two years now, and it has truly been an amazing experience. From the streamlined experience to the features you can’t get on some iPads and Mac (such as the Touch Bar, and Sidecar), Duet is truly a must have for anyone who has an iPad and Mac. Furthermore, many people have wanted a touchscreen Mac. Not available with Apples Sidecar, touchscreen is permanently enabled when using Duet. And better still, with a subscription to Duet Air, you iPad officially becomes a 2 in 1 - a Mac with a touchscreen that you can take anywhere in the office or home (so long as your Mac is awake in another room). And if you encounter any issues, the Duet team had always been very helpful! This feature of you Mac becoming an iPad (or an iPad with macOS) has so many helpful uses, from zoom calls, to taking study notes. Duet is truly a solution for those who want to carry their Mac around the office (like an iPad), showing their work to a supervisor, or anyone in general who has asked for macOS to come to the iPad.

My wife and I are often on the road and feel hamstrung when only operating on one screen, so when I discovered Duet I was super excited as we also had a couple iPad Pros which have approximately the same size screen as our Surface Laptop. We ran via cabled connection initially which ran perfectly, but the iPad didn’t charge so it went flat after a while. I then worked out that I could buy the Air upgrade so I could charge and work at the same time. Initially we hot-spotted both the iPads and laptops and found it really slow. So I reached out to support and got a super quick response for some things to try. It’s now behaving perfectly both via our home wireless network and when hot-spotting. Having the ability to easily transport a “second screen” by way of an iPad is simply awesome and the support assistance is just the icing on the already sweet cake.

I had been using this app with no issues since I purchased in 2020, recent updates have introduced a subscription model however a difficult to find page from the developer comments existing lifetime purchase users will retain the base level of wired connection without the time limit.The issue I have found was that this isn’t well communicated to existing users and was hard to find. Additionally it is only through trial and error that I have found how to actually continue using as an existing purchaser. [This is to create an account and log in on both your iPad and computer > then in the iPad app select the “up arrow menu” and finally select stick with duet, *fyi the comment down the bottom of this menus stating an air or pro subscription required is not correct]I am disappointed that I have to create an unnecessary account to retain functionality that worked fine beforehand.For new users this is still a decent app and I get a fair amount of use out of it, I would however recommend creating an account and checking out the pricing compared to purchasing a hardware monitor as the new price for a life time subscription is > 10x what I paid for it a few years ago. I believe that for the wired functionality is hard to recommend at the current price and would have preferred the developer put more functionality into the air/pro upgrade option instead of monetising the wired offering, especially alternative apps offering similar wired functionality for free.

It needn’t be playtime always for your ever-present iPad - all Surface Pro people like me (Surface Pro 6) who use the iPad for leisure activities only, can now put it to work as a second screen to your Windows computer. In my legal work with document preparation, in a paperless office, I can’t have too many screens. I look at a source document on one screen, and work on my amendments to it on another screen, while keeping up with my emails on a third screen - that’s my minimum. After discovering the brilliant Duet Display App, I have now seamlessly added my trusty iPad Pro 11” to the array, into it and out of it effortlessly - I urge you to get Duet Display, if you have an iPad currently “resting up”, so it can join you and your Windows computer, hard at work.