Wing Display
Setup
Four things to do on your Mac, two on your tablet, once. The Mac needs two permissions from you — Screen Recording and Local Network — plus Accessibility if you use Pro touch and pen. After that the tablet finds your Mac on its own.
A Mac on macOS 15 or later (the app is built for Apple silicon and Intel), and an Android tablet on Android 11 or later. iPad isn't supported. Both on the same Wi-Fi, or your Mac joined to the tablet's hotspot. For the USB Connection: Pro, a data cable and, for now, a Mac with Apple silicon.
Open the downloaded disk image and drag Wing Display to your Applications folder, then launch it. The app is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so the first time you open it macOS only asks you to confirm that you want to open an app downloaded from the internet — click Open. There's no right-click workaround and no "unidentified developer" warning.
Wing Display lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. Look for the wing icon at the top-right of your screen; that icon is the whole app.
macOS treats "send a picture of this screen somewhere" as screen recording, so it needs your permission first. Click the wing icon and choose Grant Screen Recording…; it opens the right pane of System Settings. Turn Wing Display on there, at System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording.
This one is required: Start stays greyed out until it's on. macOS may ask you to quit and reopen the app after you grant it.
Click the wing icon, then Start. The status changes to "Listening for a signal…" and your tablet can now find this Mac. Wing Display adds the tablet's display to your Mac at this point; Stop in the same menu removes it.
The first time you click Start, macOS asks whether Wing Display may find devices on your local network. Click Allow — without it the tablet has no way to see your Mac.
Only needed for Pro, which lets you control the Mac from the tablet — tap, drag, scroll, pinch, or draw with the pen. Injecting input is an accessibility capability on macOS, so macOS asks for it the first time you click Start, and it lives at System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. During a session the menu bar offers an Open Accessibility Settings… button that takes you straight there.
Skip it if you only want a second screen to look at. Everything else works without it.
The tablet app is the half of Wing Display that turns the glass into a display. It needs Android 11 or later and is in a closed beta on Google Play while we check it across more tablets — the Mac host above is ready today.
First, ask to join the Wing Display beta group with the Google account on your tablet. We approve each request by hand.
Once you're approved, open the beta's Google Play page on that account and tap "Become a tester". Then install Wing Display from Google Play on your tablet like any other app.
Google is still reviewing the beta, so until that finishes the Play page won't let you join yet. Join the group now and try the page again in a few days.
Stuck at any step? Email support@wingdisplay.com.
Open the app with Wing Display started on your Mac. On the same network the tablet finds your Mac by itself and lists it by name — tap it to connect. There's no pairing code to copy.
The first time, your Mac asks "Allow this device?" — click Allow. After that this tablet connects without asking, and you can review or remove tablets under Paired Devices… in the menu bar.
No Mac in the list? The app also recommends your tablet's own hotspot, and you can type your Mac's IP address under Or connect by IP.
Pick by the network you are on, not by preference — the right choice is usually decided for you by where you are sitting. Wireless is free; the USB Connection is part of Pro.
The app recommends your tablet's own hotspot first: turn it on and join your Mac to it for the steadiest wireless picture, even where café, hotel or guest Wi-Fi keeps devices from seeing each other. Joining moves your Mac off its current Wi-Fi. On a shared network your Mac also shows up in the app's list by itself.
The picture rides the wire — no Wi-Fi at all, and more headroom than anything wireless. Part of Pro, and for now it needs a Mac with Apple silicon. Needs USB debugging switched on once, below.
Setting up USB Connection. Developer options is hidden on Android until you reveal it: open Settings → About tablet and tap Build number seven times (on Samsung it's under About tablet → Software information). Developer options then appears in Settings; turn on USB debugging there — the tablet app's Open Developer options button takes you straight to it. Connect a data cable, not a charge-only one, make sure your Mac is started, switch the tablet app to its USB tab and tap Connect over USB. Accept the "Allow USB debugging?" prompt the first time. Nothing to install on the Mac: the host carries everything it needs.
Once the picture appears, your Mac treats the tablet as a real display. Open System Settings → Displays to place it left, right, above or below your main screen, so dragging a window off the edge sends it where you expect.
Stuck? Troubleshooting covers the failures we see most, or email support@wingdisplay.com.