- Price$9.99
- CategoryUtilities
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerBartels Media GmbH
- Bundle IDde.maxivista.MaxiVista
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueTurn your iPad into a second monitor for your Windows PC!
Don’t let your iPad gather dust while you work on your Laptop or Desktop – MaxiVista gives your iPad a completely new purpose as an extra monitor.
MaxiVista increases your desktop real estate by up to 40% allowing you to seamlessly move your program windows from your PC to the iPad screen as if it was one large monitor.
Take advantage of the new desktop space - Spread windows over both displays to avoid swapping back and forth between overlapping program windows. Your productivity will be increased significantly.
With an increased desktop space you are able to display a word processing software, mail program, media player and instant messenger all at the same time. Or you can also get simultaneous visual access to a massive collection of Photoshop toolbars.
There is no extra hardware required. Instead of using expensive video cable adapters, MaxiVista uses an existing Wi-Fi network connection to transmit the screen contents to the Windows PC.
We have invented this technology in 2003 and MaxiVista has been continuously optimized over the years to provide, probably, the fastest network based desktop transmission available on the market today. The advanced compression technology and the automatic parameter optimization offer you an almost lag-free display performance.
Watch the video demonstration on our webpage to get an idea about the performance of the display transmission.
MaxiVista works with every standard PC running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 including WDDM drivers. Windows 8/8.1 is NOT supported.
Features:
• Fully automatic configuration. Install & Go!
• Automatic update of the display orientation by simply turning the iPad.
• MaxiVista also works in existing multi monitor configurations.
• The 32 and 64 Bit virtual video drivers are certified for Windows.
• The iPad’s IP address can, optionally, be configured manually.
Limitations:
• To increase battery life of the iPad, MaxiVista is not designed for full-screen video playback on the iPad.
• The Aero display mode is temporarily disabled while MaxiVista is activated. Aero is automatically turned back on after MaxiVista is deactivated.
• Hardware graphics acceleration such as DirectX or OpenGL, which may be used by Java or WPF applications, is not supported.
• The App is not Windows 8/8.1 compatible. Carefully check reviews of other apps promising full Win8 support.
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 3 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2010 | — | — | 16 | $9.99 |
| September 4, 2011 | 4.0.3 | — | 166 | $9.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25This is an Awesome program with bum wrap!! I love this app and would recommend it to anyone but those with little computer knowledge. For all those people that say this program is not good it is proof that they are absolutely useless on computers and they need to cut the black cord that connects the power to their computers!! The program works flawlessly!! and there is no sluggishness at all. I did have to make sure my ipad and my computer were on the same network as I have several to chose from where i work. I also had to manually enter my ipad's ip address in the manual connections setting on the desktop and then it connected flawlessly and it was quick and very easy! you will also want to optimize the connection from the desktop app once you are connected to the ipad. I view live video on the ipad with no lag from the computer if that says anything about how good the app flows over!! I love this app and would recommend it to anyone but those with little computer knowledge.
Crash, crash, crash. Worked for one day (so I know it's not me and my system - I also optimized .. Which is dumb, it should just come optimized as standard setting). But has not worked since. iPad screen starts to change to second screen then .. Crash. Then again. Then again. Don't buy it. (and there's got to be a way dissatisfied customers can get their money back. All risk is on customer - not on developer to put a good product on the market)
Need to be able to specify in iPad app which "server" is allowed to access it. So if you are in environment where there are multiple iPads with app running your iPad will only connect to your machine not someone else's.
I didn't have high expectations when I bought this app. I thought it would be as laggy as remote connection. After I optimized it, it. Just worked perfectly. My main purpose is using command bars, if you are programming in Mathematica and have little screen and don't wanna be bothered with the function template, you just send it to your iPads screen, and it works perfectly as if it was an extension of your screen. Otis you are using photoshop you can just use your pad as the control bar, and monitor as the main screen. I believe this program is not intended for you to movie stream. If all you need is more working space on your computer, this is perfect!
Poor quality, slow response, and no touch feature! Have switched to air display. Don't buy it!
The new screen is REALLY slow and I can't watch videos on it or even go on Facebook without it completely freezing. I tried optimizing it a bunch of times but nothing ever helped. They need a support page that actually gives steps to optimize correctly. I won't be using this very much so it was pretty much a waste. I wouldnt recommend paying 10 dollars for this until they get decent updates that make this somewhat functional.
Installed and tried to optimize for two hours to no resolve. Optimization tool is no help and although an extended display did appear almost immediately, operating any program from the iPad display proved impossible. Display lagged, windows wouldn't maximize, movies wouldn't play (would begin to play on the computer screen only to receive a windows codec error when dragging to ipad display). Website support is geared towards the pro edition (guess again if you think that's what you bought) so most of the options they suggest you manipulate are not available in the app. App should be testable for use and some decent instructions should be provided.
I could see giving it two stars if it were a free app, but a production release with that price tag? With bugs and performance issues like this? Avoid.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.