OldPadDeck 0.1.4

OldPadDeck turns the old iPad in your drawer into a control deck and live dashboard for your Mac.

Try it before installing: live demo · Guide: install in ten minutes

What's new in 0.1.4

• Calendar and Reminders unlock right away. After you allowed access on the Mac, the Today widget could keep saying "access not granted" until OldPadDeck was restarted. Your events and reminders now show up within a minute, with no restart.

Also recently: a clearer first run that leads from pairing to Configure Deck (0.1.3), and the Capture key opens the macOS Screenshot tool (0.1.1).

Requirements

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).
• Any iPad from the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 (2013) on, on the same home network. Nothing to install on the iPad: it runs in Safari.

Install or update

1. Download OldPadDeck.dmg below and drag OldPadDeck to Applications (replace the old one if asked). It is signed and notarized by Apple. Your layout and paired iPads are kept.
2. Open it: the pairing window shows an address and a code. Open the address in Safari on the iPad, type the code, then add the page to the Home Screen.

See the FAQ for the honest limitations (trusted home network only, AirPlay limits).

SHA-256 of the disk image: d8bf49f97ecbc7f4cd49d2a114295f8848ca815e1c493dba1b01cf07e4083566

OldPadDeck 0.1.3

OldPadDeck turns the old iPad in your drawer into a control deck and live dashboard for your Mac.

Try it before installing: live demo · Guide: install in ten minutes

What's new in 0.1.3

• A clearer first run. Opening the app shows the pairing window until an iPad is connected. As soon as the iPad is paired, the window gives way to Configure Deck on its own.
• Opening the app again (Dock icon, Finder, Spotlight) shows Configure Deck while an iPad is connected, and the pairing window otherwise.
• Pair a Device now sits right under the iPad in Configure Deck, instead of at the bottom of the side bar.
• The Configure Deck window can be moved again: drag it by its top edge, double-click to zoom.

Also recently: after pairing, a Configure Deck button (0.1.2), and the Capture key opens the macOS Screenshot tool (0.1.1).

Requirements

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).
• Any iPad from the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 (2013) on, on the same home network. Nothing to install on the iPad: it runs in Safari.

Install or update

1. Download OldPadDeck.dmg below and drag OldPadDeck to Applications (replace the old one if asked). It is signed and notarized by Apple. Your layout and paired iPads are kept.
2. Open it: the pairing window shows an address and a code. Open the address in Safari on the iPad, type the code, then add the page to the Home Screen.

See the FAQ for the honest limitations (trusted home network only, AirPlay limits).

SHA-256 of the disk image: 0bdc0aed40ff7be99d98333549829a591ed7f5c4b7528d2101e980d02feac635

OldPadDeck 0.1.2

OldPadDeck turns the old iPad in your drawer into a control deck and live dashboard for your Mac.

Try it before installing: live demo · Guide: install in ten minutes

What's new in 0.1.2

• After pairing, the next step is clear: the pairing window now offers Configure Deck, which opens the editor on the Mac, instead of only "Pair Another Device" (still there, just below).

Also in 0.1.1: the Capture key opens the macOS Screenshot tool (the ⇧⌘5 toolbar).

Requirements

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).
• Any iPad from the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 (2013) on, on the same home network. Nothing to install on the iPad: it runs in Safari.

Install or update

1. Download OldPadDeck.dmg below and drag OldPadDeck to Applications (replace the old one if asked). It is signed and notarized by Apple. Your layout and paired iPads are kept.
2. First install: open it, choose Pair a Device…, open the address it shows in Safari on the iPad and type the code, then add the page to the Home Screen.

See the FAQ for the honest limitations (trusted home network only, AirPlay limits).

SHA-256 of the disk image: 481c6246b3a3affdc5f4409c414b27aa740ae5d9a71b12e70e7c77164f327188

OldPadDeck 0.1.1

OldPadDeck turns the old iPad in your drawer into a control deck and live dashboard for your Mac.

Try it before installing: live demo · Guide: install in ten minutes

What's new in 0.1.1

• The Capture key now opens the macOS Screenshot tool (the ⇧⌘5 toolbar), instead of a bare selection crosshair that was easy to miss from the iPad. Existing keys work as before, nothing to reconfigure.

Requirements

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).
• Any iPad from the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 (2013) on, on the same home network. Nothing to install on the iPad: it runs in Safari.

Install or update

1. Download OldPadDeck.dmg below and drag OldPadDeck to Applications (replace the old one if asked). It is signed and notarized by Apple. Your layout and paired iPads are kept.
2. First install: open it from the menu bar, choose Pair a Device… and open the address it shows in Safari on the iPad, then add the page to the Home Screen.

See the FAQ for the honest limitations (trusted home network only, AirPlay limits).

SHA-256 of the disk image: 40c32b859a8fac69ebfa1249d898d4f1f7857a1ba57a4f54be6c4ad431fcd0ff

OldPadDeck 0.1.0

The first public release of OldPadDeck: turn the old iPad in your drawer into a control deck and live dashboard for your Mac.

Try it before installing: live demo · Guide: install in ten minutes

What's inside

• Six modes — Deck, Cockpit, Focus, Studio, Pad and Standby — that you can rearrange, resize and fill from a catalog of about two dozen widgets.
• Controls: app and website keys, Shortcuts, key combos, a trackpad, volume and brightness sliders, window tiling.
• Live Mac data: CPU per core, memory, GPU, temperatures and fans, power draw, network, battery and the batteries of your devices.
• Focus: a Pomodoro timer, today's calendar and reminders you can check off.
• Audio: now playing, and a picker for the Mac's output, Bluetooth and AirPlay speakers.
• Automatic mode switching when you change apps or start a focus session.

Requirements

• A Mac with macOS 14 or later (Apple silicon or Intel).
• Any iPad from the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 (2013) on, on the same home network. Nothing to install on the iPad: it runs in Safari.

Install

1. Download OldPadDeck-0.1.0.dmg below and drag OldPadDeck to Applications. It is signed and notarized by Apple.
2. Open it: it lives in the menu bar. Choose Pair a Device… and open the address it shows in Safari on the iPad.
3. Enter the code, then add the page to the iPad's Home Screen for a full-screen deck.

See the FAQ for the honest limitations (trusted home network only, AirPlay limits).

SHA-256 of the disk image: 059402b967394a4376b0b92847725bdc51570389b8e88e3010f9e2f3ca1847c0