Share your
thinking,
not just your screen.

SharePad is £2.99, a one-time payment, not a subscription. That includes automatic updates for life, so every future version is free once you’ve bought it. Prefer to build it yourself? The full source is on GitHub under the GPLv3, free of charge.

For the first 7 days everything works, with nothing held back. After that SharePad still opens and shows your iPad, but sharing runs for up to 5 minutes and then pauses until you add your licence. Choose “Enter Licence…” from the menu bar and sharing carries on straight away, offline.

Plug your iPad into your Mac over USB and SharePad opens a clean window showing its screen. There’s nothing to install on the iPad and no app to open: everything runs on the Mac. In your call, choose “Share window” and pick SharePad from the list, the same way you’d share any app. There’s no mid-call setup, and it works in Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. See the full step-by-step guide.

As a proper window, not a virtual camera. A virtual camera shows up as a small webcam tile in a call; SharePad gives you a shared window at full size, which is what you want for live drawing and whiteboarding. It’s a live feed rendered straight to your screen on the GPU, using the same capture path QuickTime and OBS use, so it stays responsive for drawing and writing.

Any of them. SharePad shows your iPad’s whole screen, so you can use Procreate, GoodNotes, Freeform, Notability, Apple Notes, whatever you already draw or write in. There’s nothing to integrate, and your Apple Pencil strokes appear live in the call as you make them.

A Mac running macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, and a USB cable to connect your iPad. That’s it. SharePad isn’t on the Mac App Store because macOS only treats a plugged-in iPad as a camera for apps that run outside Apple’s sandbox, and App Store apps must be sandboxed. It’s still signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click. You just download it directly rather than from the store.

You connect the iPad to your Mac with a USB cable. SharePad uses the same wired connection macOS already exposes for a plugged-in iPad, the one QuickTime uses, so there’s no wireless pairing or network involved.

Two usual causes: the iPad is locked (a locked iPad shows black, so unlock it), or you haven’t tapped “Trust This Computer” on the iPad yet. Also, browser-based Google Meet and Teams only transmit a window that’s actually visible. If it’s hidden behind other windows the share goes blank, so switch on “Keep Window on Top” in SharePad’s gear menu (the gear in the menu-bar popover).

No. SharePad is video only by design. It shows the iPad’s screen, not its audio, so your call’s own microphone handles the talking.

SharePad mirrors your whole iPad screen, so anything on the iPad, including notification banners, is visible to the call. Turn on a Focus or Do Not Disturb on the iPad before you share to keep things tidy.

Yes. SharePad shows your iPad in a window on your Mac. There’s no account, no sign-in and no tracking. SharePad goes online to check for updates, and sends crash reports if you switch them on in the app (they’re off until you do). What you draw or share never leaves your Mac. The privacy policy has the details.

Email hello@sharepad.co and you’ll hear back from a person. Bugs and ideas are welcome as GitHub issues.