PXS External Screen Desktop
byteNine AS Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
PXS External Screen Desktop is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by byteNine AS. Rated 5.0/5 from 4 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 4 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 207 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v1.3.1
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About PXS External Screen Desktop
Leave the laptop at home — your phone IS the computer. PXS Desktop turns your phone into a real desktop: windows, a dock, a launcher, a desktop-class browser — on AR glasses, a monitor, a TV, or even a web browser. Your phone becomes the trackpad and keyboard. Pair a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for the full laptop feel. FOUR WAYS TO GET A SCREEN • Cable — AR display glasses (Viture, XREAL, RayNeo, Rokid, Lenovo Legion Glasses), any USB-C monitor or portable display, HDMI via adapter • Screen Mirroring — Apple TV, a Mac, or any AirPlay 2 TV • AnyScreen — any modern browser becomes your display: a laptop, a smart TV, even the browser in your parked car • Open on this screen — the desktop right on an iPad or iPhone Duo WIRED? CHECK YOUR CABLE Charging cables carry power only — including the white one in your iPhone box. A wired screen needs a USB-C cable that supports video (DisplayPort Alt Mode): the cable that came with your glasses or monitor, a Thunderbolt cable, or Apple's USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter for HDMI. UNFOLD IT On iPhone Duo the desktop fills the big inner screen. Half folded, it stands like a laptop: the desktop on top, a touchpad below. A fold or a turn keeps your windows and pages as they are. A REAL DESKTOP • Windows you can move, resize, snap, minimize and fullscreen • A desktop-class tabbed browser — Gmail, Google Docs, Office, video calls with camera and mic (Teams, Meet), file downloads • Install any website as an app with its own icon • Spotlight-style launcher with voice input and natural-language commands • Files, Photos, Notes, Preview (PDF markup), Camera and scanner, Clock with alarms, Calculator, video, text editor, terminal, games • Daily Overview: calendar, tasks and weather • Themes and chrome styles, movable widgets, on-screen keyboard TALK INSTEAD OF TYPING There is a Dictate button right under the trackpad, and a microphone in the menu bar: either one speaks into whatever field you are in — a web form, an email, a search box. It all happens on your iPhone, so nothing is sent anywhere and it works with no signal. If you work in two languages, switch between them in one tap. Requires iOS 26. IT GREETS YOU Connect a screen and your computer says hello — "Welcome back. You have three calendar items today" — in a studio-quality neural voice that runs entirely on your iPhone. One download, then it works offline forever; nothing is sent anywhere. Write your own greeting, or turn it off. MADE FOR AR GLASSES PXS was built for the pocket-computer dream: glasses on your face, phone in your hand, a huge desktop nobody else can see. If your glasses act as a USB-C display, they work. TRY IT FREE FIRST Your free trial starts when you first connect a screen — not when you install — so no trial time is wasted waiting for your glasses to arrive. After that, one purchase makes it yours forever: $39.99 at the launch price, down from $49.99 (or $24.99/year, cancel anytime). Your setup, your signed-in apps and your files always remain yours. THE HONEST LIST We're a small shop and we'd rather tell you up front: Netflix, HBO Max and Apple TV+ won't play in the browser (a service choice, not an iOS limit — Disney+, Prime Video, Apple Music and Plex all play fine); copy/paste works best with a Bluetooth keyboard (⌘C/⌘V); other apps' iOS notifications can't appear on the desktop; a Bluetooth mouse needs a one-time AssistiveTouch setup, and typing in Mouse Mode wants a Bluetooth keyboard (iOS hides the touch keyboard while a mouse is connected). The spoken greeting is English only. And in a car, AnyScreen is for passengers and parked use only — never while driving. Feature requests are voted on publicly at bytenine.com — the board genuinely drives the roadmap. No ads. No tracking. No account required. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.3.1 · Updated October 24, 2026
On iPhone Duo: • Half folded, it stands like a laptop: the desktop on top, a touchpad below. • Switch the lower half to a game controller for cloud gaming. • The keyboard comes up over the touchpad, so the desktop stays as it is. Hide Keyboard puts it away. Also: • The phone's controller is now controller 1 in games, even with another controller connected.
App privacy
The developer, byteNine AS, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Coarse Location
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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