Popyachsa AirPlay

AirPlay, on your computer.

Mirror your iPhone, iPad or Mac — or send video, photos and music — straight to this computer over your local Wi-Fi. Low latency, hardware-accelerated, open source.

Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit

Installer (.exe)

Linux

64-bit · most distros

AppImage

macOS

Apple Silicon · Intel

Download (.dmg)

First launch: right-click → Open

Needs a GPU from around 2012 or newer and a 1080p display.

Download not working? Try the Google mirror

Linux: auto-updates via your package manager

Add the signed repo once, then upgrade with apt / dnf like any system package.

Debian · Ubuntu — APT

curl -fsSL https://dl.airplay.popyachsa.com/popyachsa-airplay-repo.asc \
  | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/popyachsa-airplay.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/popyachsa-airplay.gpg] \
https://dl.airplay.popyachsa.com/apt stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/popyachsa-airplay.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install popyachsa-airplay

Fedora · RHEL — DNF

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/popyachsa-airplay.repo <<'EOF'
[popyachsa-airplay]
name=Popyachsa AirPlay
baseurl=https://dl.airplay.popyachsa.com/rpm
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl.airplay.popyachsa.com/popyachsa-airplay-repo.asc
EOF
sudo dnf install popyachsa-airplay
Popyachsa AirPlay receiving an iPhone screen

Why this one

Low-latency mirroring

Sub-50 ms input lag on a tuned LAN, with hardware H.264 / H.265 decoding (Direct3D, VA-API or NVDEC, depending on your OS) and rotation tracked down to the orientation byte.

Instant media

YouTube, Photos, Safari and Apple TV+ video play via direct HLS — near-instant start, no preroll buffering.

Works where Bonjour fails

On multi-NIC and WireGuard hosts where Apple Bonjour crashes, a bundled dnssd.dll proxies a working service or falls back to its own embedded mDNS responder.

Native & lightweight

A tiny tray app — fullscreen, multi-monitor, drag & resize with an aspect ratio locked to the picture. No accounts, no telemetry.

Windowed on Mac

Receive AirPlay in a resizable, movable window on your Mac — native AirPlay-to-Mac is fullscreen-only. (Also fully windowed on Windows and Linux.)

Auto-updates

Built-in, signed updates keep you on the latest version — one click on Windows and macOS, delta AppImage updates on Linux. Re-distribute or modify under GPL-3.0.

Three steps

  1. 1

    Install and launch — it sits quietly in your tray, advertising itself on the network.

  2. 2

    On your iPhone, iPad or Mac, open Screen Mirroring (or AirPlay from any app) and pick this computer.

  3. 3

    The video window pops up automatically. Alt+Enter for fullscreen, Esc to exit.