Flect 0.3.0

Silence an iPad, and save what one is showing.

What's new

• Silence one iPad. Hover over it and click the speaker button. It stays silent even while it's the iPad you'd otherwise hear: the sound doesn't jump to another screen. A small badge by its name shows why it's quiet.
• Silence everything with the sound button in the top bar, or ⇧⌘M. Flect remembers the choice.
• Save a snapshot. The camera button saves exactly what an iPad is showing as a PNG in Pictures ▸ Flect, named after the device and the time. ⌘S saves the enlarged iPad, or the only one showing. A short message offers Show in Finder.

Snapshots need macOS 14.4 or later; on anything older the button doesn't appear. Everything else still runs on macOS 14.

While mirroring, an iPad's own speaker is silent because its sound is sent here, so silencing it in Flect silences the room.

Downloads

File	For
Flect-0.3.0.pkg	School IT. It installs Flect in /Applications; push it with Jamf, Mosyle or another MDM.
Flect-0.3.0.zip	Trying it on one Mac. Unzip it and move Flect to Applications.

Both run on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. 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.

Since 0.2.0

Up to twelve iPads side by side, each labelled; click one to enlarge it and hear it; ⌘0 shows them all again.