MirrorMe

A camera for simulators.Aimed at your desktop.

MirrorMe lets iOS Simulators and Android emulators see whatever sits beneath their window. Drag it over a QR code, or hand a camera an image or a video.

Download for Mac

Drag the phone

One switch. Every simulator and emulator.

No changes to the app you are testing. MirrorMe plugs into the camera APIs the app already uses.

iOS Simulator

Preview, video frames, photos and QR scanning work in any app that uses AVFoundation.

An iOS Simulator app scanning a QR code through MirrorMe

Android emulator

Emulators started from MirrorMe get a MirrorMe Camera that fills the camera preview edge to edge.

The Android emulator camera showing the MirrorMe test pattern

It follows the window

Drag a simulator across your screen and its camera keeps up, showing what is underneath, live.

Lives in the menu bar

One switch for every camera. Drop an image or video on any of them.

Scriptable

mirrorme source set image qr.png --device booted
mirrorme android launch Pixel_8
mirrorme mcp   # for AI agents

Installed in a minute.

  1. 1

    Download and drag into Applications

    Open the disk image and drag MirrorMe onto the Applications folder.
  2. 2

    Run this once in Terminal

    MirrorMe isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS holds it back the first time. This lets it open.
    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MirrorMe.app
  3. 3

    Turn it on

    Click the menu bar icon, flip the switch and allow Screen Recording. Then relaunch the app you are testing.

Give your simulators a view.

Free for macOS. Works with the iOS Simulator from Xcode and the Android Emulator from the Android SDK.

Download for Mac
Version
1.1.0
Requires
macOS 14 or later
Size
2 MB
SHA-256
dd3c06dd775c1ad303be4f4dfddccceed5f2b4bd7be6c6e46b363a1db6d550ed

New in 1.1.0. Show an image, a video or a slideshow on any camera, for every device or just one, with an optional overlay. A new Liquid Glass menu, a media library, and an MCP server for AI agents.