VisionDesk Free
One complete spatial Mac display.
- Full stream quality and latency
- Audio, pointer and keyboard input
- Spatial and clarity controls
The real interface
A working recreation of the VisionDesk control panel, rebuilt from the app's own layout and values. Switch pages, pick a screen, drag the sliders — this is what the headset shows.
Playing a short demo — touch anything to take overA browser recreation for the web. Its control ranges are the app's own: distance 0.4–6 m and a curved viewing radius of 0.6–3 m (DisplayLimits, WorkspaceSync.curveRadiusRange), tilt ±40° snapping to flat near zero, and size as the rendered diagonal in meters — the same numbers the app reports. The readouts start from the values in the captured session.
The honest comparison
visionOS includes Mac Virtual Display, and it is good: one screen, nothing to install, and an ultrawide option about as wide as two 4K displays side by side. VisionDesk begins where that stops — several separate displays, each placed by the meter, and an arrangement you can save.
Checked against Apple’s published Mac Virtual Display documentation for visionOS 26 in August 2026. If one screen is all you need, use Apple’s: it is already on your device, and it is free.
Precise by design
Distance and physical size are real numbers in meters, not an abstract percentage — and Mac and Vision Pro read from one shared model. Drag to move, pinch to resize, twist to turn in the headset; refine the exact value on the Mac.
Two apps, one workspace
The Mac Host gained a sidebar, focused pages and a session strip carrying the live connection. In the headset, a glass panel puts Desk, Workspace, Environment and Quality one tap apart. Every capture is the shipping app, not a mockup.
Screenshots of the running app — the headset pages from the visionOS Simulator, the Mac Host from macOS. Drag or scroll the row.
Shot through the headset
Photographs taken on Apple Vision Pro while VisionDesk was streaming a MacBook Pro — real desktops, real curvature, real environment.
Built for real work
Capture runs through ScreenCaptureKit, encodes in hardware, and travels your own network. Nothing passes a VisionDesk server, because there is no VisionDesk server.
The active screen gets full bitrate; peripheral screens run lighter so the encoder never runs out of headroom. It uses the active screen and a privacy-preserving head-direction estimate — never raw eye tracking.
Single-pass contrast-adaptive sharpening keeps small desktop text readable, with a strength slider you control. Optional mipmaps reduce shimmer on strongly angled screens.
Standard mode holds a latency-calibrated resolution ceiling. Maximum Quality lifts it to 4K when your network can carry it. H.264 stands in wherever HEVC is unavailable.
Audio, pointer, click, scroll and keyboard travel the same paired connection. Send text, navigation, clipboard and editing commands without leaving the workspace.
Bounded queues and stale-frame rejection protect latency. The headset re-pairs automatically after an app restart, a Mac sleep or a local-network interruption.
Live latency, round trip, packet loss, stale frames, decode percentiles and transport state — per screen, in the dock's Health tab.
Private by default
VisionDesk does not phone home. Your displays stream from your Mac to your Vision Pro over your own network. On the App Store, its privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
The Mac Host's only other network call is the signed Sparkle update feed. Pairing material lives in the operating-system Keychain. Read the privacy policy.
Honest pricing
The free display is complete — full resolution, audio, pointer and keyboard. Pro is for the workspace that needs more than one.
One complete spatial Mac display.
Two to five displays and advanced control.
The companion that runs on your Mac.
The 14-day trial is for eligible new subscribers and starts only after you confirm a plan in Apple's purchase sheet. The selected plan renews automatically unless cancelled. The App Store confirms local pricing and eligibility before purchase.
No fine print
Knowing the edges before you install is part of the product. These are the current limits, stated plainly.