Mirage Beacon
Mirage Beacon is the Mac companion app for Mirage that streams your desktop or individual app windows to other Apple devices.
What is Mirage Beacon?
Mirage Beacon is a macOS utility from Ethan Lipnik that lets a Mac act as the source for Mirage remote display and streaming sessions. It helps users send a full desktop, a virtual second display, or individual app windows from a Mac to an iPhone, iPad, another Mac, or Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed for workflows such as using an iPad as an extra screen, accessing a headless Mac, presenting one app window without sharing the whole desktop, or extending a workstation to another Apple device. User-facing capabilities highlighted for Mirage include support for multiple streamed windows, high refresh rates, Apple Pencil input on supported devices, audio streaming, and encrypted media sessions. On Mac, Mirage Beacon is the host component that stays on the computer you want to stream from.
Key features
- Stream the whole Mac desktop to iPhone, iPad, another Mac, or Apple Vision Pro
- Share individual Mac app windows instead of mirroring the entire screen
- Use another Apple device as a second display for a Mac
- Connect over Wi-Fi, wired USB-C, or a manually chosen network address
- Support high refresh rate streaming, including ProMotion on supported devices
- Forward Apple Pencil input to the Mac from supported iPad setups
- Stream audio along with the Mac display
- Access a headless Mac with a virtual display workflow
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Mirage Beacon is normal host software for remote display and screen streaming on Mac. To work as intended, it may request access related to screen capture, audio, input forwarding, or network communication, which is expected for this kind of app. If you use it, keep those permissions limited to what you need and only allow remote access from devices you trust. Removing the app stops Mirage streaming and any related host features on that Mac.
Recommendation: Keep Mirage Beacon if you use Mirage to stream your Mac, run a headless Mac, or use another Apple device as a display. If you no longer use those features, you can remove it to stop host-side streaming and reduce background permissions.
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