Yam Display Free 4+

Works Well But Has Obnoxious Time-out

Used this to teach a class using screen sharing on Zoom. It worked well, but when it times out every 7 minutes, it actually disconnects you from the session, so I had to re share my screen every 7 minutes, which was very obnoxious. It was good enough that I would have considered buying the full version if I planned on using it more. Don’t mind the timeout, but I don’t know why it’s necessary to disconnect the screen when that happens. Free version is not a viable solution in my opinion

Better than duet

I am using this in two ways: as a mirrored touchscreen display, and a second (and third) display. First off, this app works perfectly. The only problem I was running into was that the virtual Touch Bar was a little finicky, but I realized that “Automatically hide and show the dock” has to be on. Once I figured that out, everything else came together and now I am very impressed with this app. It’s responsive, and there are so many options for resolution. It even gives my standalone MacBook Air (no iPads connected) an on-screen Touch Bar, but that wasn’t using the mobile app. Definitely 5 stars, even the free version with interruptions. Not super annoying, and they don’t undo any display settings or delete unsaved work. Anyway definitely still buying the paid versions. Very pleased.

Did not work properly for me.

I was able to mirror my older MacBook to my new iPad, but I was not able to control my MacBook with my IPad. My MacBook has a broken screen and I have to connect it to an external monitor. I was hoping I could just keep it closed and plug it into my iPad to see and control it. Unfortunately it didn’t work, maybe if I connected it a different way? I connected from my MacBooks USB-A to my IPads USB-C. Maybe if I went from MacBooks Thunderbolt(mini display port) to IPads USB-C (if that’s possible) would I get better results? I don’t have chords/adaptors for that, don’t want to spend money unless I know it will work. I tried tweaking what is mirrored on my computer, that was a mistake, fixing things afterwards is too complicated to explain, but I’m not pleased. I just keep thinking, if I had bought that computer a few months later, I would be able to use side car and I wouldn’t have to deal with the useless third party apps.

Developer Response ,

Hi JiimyLMiller77, Thank you for your review and sorry for the inconvenience. You can control your MacBook using Yam Display with touch gestures. Please contact us at help@yamdisplay.com so we can help you out. Thank you!