Flect 0.2.0

Several iPads side by side.

What's new

• Up to twelve iPads at once, side by side. Four by default; choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 or 12 in Flect → Settings. Flect picks whichever grid shows them largest, for landscape and portrait screens alike.
• Each iPad is labelled with its name, on its picture.
• Click an iPad to enlarge it, and you hear its sound. Click again, or press ⌘0, to show them all.
• Hover over an iPad to disconnect just that one. Disconnect All is in the top bar and the Receiver menu.
• Above four iPads, each sends a smaller picture (720p, then 540p) so the Wi-Fi keeps up.
• If one iPad drops off the network, only that one is cleared; the others carry on.

Tested with four iPads mirroring at once. More than four hasn't been tried yet, so please report how it goes.

Downloads

File	For
Flect-0.2.0.pkg	School IT. It installs Flect in /Applications; push it with Jamf, Mosyle or another MDM.
Flect-0.2.0.zip	Trying it on one Mac. Unzip it and move Flect to Applications.

Both run on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 14 or later. SHA256SUMS has the checksums.

It still isn't signed

macOS blocks Flect the first time you open it. Within the hour, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and enter an administrator password. Installed through an MDM, it usually opens without these steps. See Installing on school Macs.

Under the hood

UxPlay's AirPlay library serves one device at a time, so Flect now carries a small patch (patches/uxplay-multiple-clients.patch). With it, several devices can connect at once, each with its own session, and one can be dropped without the others.