Astropad

Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

4.7•3 reviews•

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Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

4.7•3 reviews•

11 followers

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Interface design tools

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Graphic design tools

Astropad will be your graphic design tablet for your Mac! Draw directly, with no compression, in Photoshop from your iPad. This tool allows you to connect your Mac and your iPad together to create the perfect working space! No lagging, only high-quality clear images!

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lutzlapalma

•1 review

Works but no more improvements made

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2yr ago

Janusz Dziurzynski

•1 review

Astropad is a wonderful piece of software. It's well-designed, performant, and does exactly what I need it to do and does it well. That's especially great because I can't even find any other apps that actually let me use my iPad and Pencil as a drawing tablet (except for Apple's built-in Sidecar), so I'd still pretty much have to use it even if it weren't as good as it is. I don't consider Sidecar a real alternative because it doesn't work on Windows, which is where I have to run all my 3D software since Apple's break-up with NVIDIA. But I still use Astropad on the Mac since, so far, I usually get lower latency and better responsiveness with it than with Sidecar.

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2yr ago

Cushie Audio

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What a contrast! Duet Display wreaked havoc in my house of apple. But it took 2 years to find out it was upsetting Hand Off, the universal clipboard, AirDrop etc!! Pretty crucial features when you have 2 separate machines. Even after giving up on it after a month..... The Luna Display was up and running in minutes. I can even still listen to the music on my secondary machine with the keyboard still controlling the tunes while working on the display !! how do they do that!!?? Support's great as well, they even sent me a freeby when I received the wrong one. Maybe I'm not meant to say that..... thanks Astropad. Having my 2 27's working together is finally happening! and really well too

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3yr ago

Duet Display

Ex-Apple engineers transform your iPad into a cinema display

iDisplay

Use your iOS/Android device as an extra display

Lunar

Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display

Shiftscreen

Second screen for your iPad and iPhone

Air Display

Turn your iPad/iPhone into a wireless display for your PC.

Quill

Collaborative drawing and wireframing app for iPad

This is the 6th launch from Astropad. View more

Luna Display 5.0

Turn your iPad into a wireless display, now for Windows

Luna Display is a hardware solution that turns your iPad (or Mac) into a wired or wireless second display – Now with support for Windows!

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Productivity•Hardware•Tech

Launch Team

Matt Ronge

Astropad

Maker

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 Special thanks to @hnshah for hunting us! Hiten, thank you for all you do for the startup community (especially us bootstrappers!) I'm super excited to share Luna Display 5.0 – now with support for Windows. This is a really big deal and a new day for our company, let me explain... In 2017 we launched our first hardware product Luna Display. Things were going well. Sales were strong....until Apple's WWDC 2019. At that event Apple revealed Sidecar, which was clearly inspired by our products (we had met with Apple before and they knew us). We were Sherlocked. 💥 In hindsight we were naive and should have seen it coming, but hindsight is always 20/20 right? After Sidecar was released our sales fell off a cliff, they went down by 10x almost overnight. And we had a bootstrapped team of close to 20 people to support. That day we put a stake in the ground and said we aren't going anywhere. ⚡ We knew that to survive we needed to add Windows support. The problem was all our code was written in Objective-C which wouldn't run on Windows (we tried). We immediately kicked off a skunkworks project to rewrite our Liquid tech in Rust to be cross-platform. We also started a new Luna hardware design for HDMI, a popular PC port type. For over two years we worked on rewriting and designing for the PC. It was an incredibly complex and difficult project. We were a small team working on a new platform in a new language. It was tough. The constant stress of worrying if we were going to make it, plus COVID and a global supply chain crisis. But each day we put one foot in front of the other. It was hard but we never gave up. And now 2.5 years later, I'm proud to announce that we've reinvented ourselves as a cross-platform company! Luna Display for Windows is now available! 🙌 🚀 We're back! And we never laid anyone off, we stuck to our team, customers and our products. It would mean the world to us if you'd check out Luna. I'm happy to talk more about the behind-the-scenes product development or what it's like building a hardware product. Thank you!

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4yr ago

David Gonzalez

@hnshah @mronge great product I’ve owned one since it first came out and was able to try it on windows as well. Love Astropad!

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4yr ago

FranckUxJapan

@mronge Hi Matt, two questions: 1. Does your dongle also manage multi-screens clipboards? ( copying from one screen and pasting to the other ). 2. In the scenario where I have a PC desktop and a MAC laptop, and depending on my tasks I want either the MAC or the PC to be the transmitter, do I have to buy two dongles ( one for PC and one for MAC ), would it cause any conflict and how would I switch between the two modes (MAC transmitter VS PC transmitter) easily enough?

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4yr ago

John Li

Vimcal

PC to iPad is a huge deal! Don't think I've seen anyone else doing this. Congrats on the launch!

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4yr ago

Erik Yarberry

I was an early adopter of Luna Display and love it. Unlike Sidecar, Luna works while I'm connected to a VPN and when I'm on wireless networks that enforce client isolation. If you're looking for another niche to occupy, I'd love to be able to use my iPad as a display for Raspberry Pi projects!

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4yr ago

Ana Knickerbocker (she/her)

@erik_yarberry That is an awesome idea! I would also love one for my raspberry pi 😍🥧

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4yr ago

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Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

Astropad

Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

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