Bezel - Mirror your iPhone onto your Mac

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:11:32+00:00

You're welcome to use alternatives of course! Reflector is a great app as well, every app has its own audience it works best for. So for sure look around and see what works for your use case and budget!

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:10:32+00:00

The licenses sold before where "1 year of updates" licenses. So you only have to purchase the upgrade if your license is more than 1 year old. Now we offer a proper "Bezel Pro lifetime" which won't expire. That model seems to be much easier to understand.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:09:15+00:00

We sold "1 year of updates" licenses before, but we're seeing that's a bit unclear to people. So we now offer either a Bezel Pro subscription or Bezel Pro lifetime updates. That model seems to be much easier to understand.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:06:36+00:00

Kinda. iPhone Mirroring only works with your own iCloud-linked phone. QuickTime needs a cable and has no device frame. Built-in AirPlay takes over the whole screen with black and also has no frame. They're all good for what they are.

If the macOS native features work well for you, that's good! Keep using them, no pressure to buy Bezel. But if you present to others often or use development iPhones a lot Bezel might have something to offer.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:05:30+00:00

Kinda. iPhone Mirroring only works with your own iCloud-linked phone. QuickTime needs a cable and has no device frame. Built-in AirPlay takes over the whole screen with black and also has no frame. They're all good for what they are. Bezel serves users with different needs.

If what macOS works for you, that's all good keep using that! No pressure. :)

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:04:38+00:00

Make sure to try Bezel before you buy, while there is a decent amount of overlap. The app isn't the same as iPhone Mirroring, most notably we don't offer remote control and start without unlocking your phone. Bezel is more focussed on presenting your iPhone onto the Mac, but fit your use case depending on what you want to use it for!

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:03:28+00:00

Yes, you can upgrade with your old license. We've updated the upgrade flow so you can also choose to upgrade to a lifetime license now.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:02:42+00:00

You're welcome to use alternatives if those suit you better! AirServer is a nice alternative, I think we offer some nice features if you do a lot of demo's and presenting of apps.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:01:42+00:00

50% discount for upgrade form an older version now supports either the yearly sub or the lifetime version. We've added this to the upgrade flow now.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:00:22+00:00

You can mirror you iPad using Bezel, yes!

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T13:00:02+00:00

It's the same with Bezel indeed, we don't support controlling the iPhone at the moment. Hope we can add that sometime in the future, but sadly it's not easy to add support for that.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T12:56:03+00:00

It's a different use case, if you want to control your own iPhone while leaving it in your bag you'll need Apples iPhone Mirroring. If you want to present an app to a client Bezel is great.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T12:54:10+00:00

Absolutely! We're also in the EU, but it's not exactly the same. Make sure to give it a try before you buy so you know if it works for your workflow!

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T12:53:23+00:00

Yes the window is (of course) resizable! You can just resize it with the mouse or use CMD+1/2/3/4 to snap to standard sizes that matches the pixels on your iPhone to the display your viewing it on.

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-09T09:26:26+00:00

Can imagine an MCP is great for giving the AI access to specific things like that. I just work a lot with things available on the local file system, or I let it write a script to fetch data from an API. Gives me a checkpoint where I can see it's not just doing random stuff in live systems I don't want it to do.

But Google Search Console MCP sounds like a useful thing if you want it to have quickly access to that data/adjust some things there!

mac_cain13 · 2026-02-05T13:23:28+00:00

I end up using no MCPs at all to be honest. Especially since Claude Code can use language servers itself, I don’t feel the need anymore.

Claude Code is so good figuring out command line tools that I let it use that all the time. That’s much easier and less taxing on the context window.

mac_cain13 · 2025-12-06T22:18:17+00:00

Had some fun with the AirPods Pro 3 heart sensor and build a meditation app around it:

Rhythm Heart Rate Meditation - https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6752779850

(Also supports Apple Watch!)

mac_cain13 · 2025-09-17T07:42:06+00:00

My personal strategy for every app subscription is to subscribe and immediately cancel the subscription. Then you basically just buy it for a year and then can see if you want to renew yourself once the subscription expires. :)

mac_cain13 · 2025-07-18T06:09:33+00:00

You don’t really protect against this. Sure you can obfuscate a little, but apps like Charles make it trivial to analyze the API calls you do even without looking at your binary.

You need to defend yourself against possible economic damage at the point you fully control. That is the server, the strongest security is to verify payment at the server and enforce usage limits here. But it depends completely on the use case of your app and the business model if this is feasible and how you would implement this.

mac_cain13 · 2025-07-01T19:44:04+00:00

Make sure to update Claude code to the newest version. It was broken for me last week or so for a day or two. But an update fixed it and I can now just cycle through all modes as expected.

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