Bezel 2.5.1
Bezel [Web site] is one of those simple, easy-to-use apps that feels like it should have been made years ago. The one-line summary of Bezel is that it mirrors your iPhone screen to your Mac. But it actually does much more than that, elevating the app from a basic tool to a fully functioning utility with genuine, everyday use cases.
In addition to mirroring, Bezel offers many different ways to capture the screen of the mirrored device. You can place the screenshot in the frame of your iPhone and add padding around the frame with any pattern or color you want, or make the padding transparent. All of this together yields unique results, enabling many real-world applications. You can layer your phone’s screen onto other videos, show what you are doing on your screen during a big presentation, take screenshots with a frame for a how-to guide, and much more. Bezel also includes excellent keyboard shortcuts for almost every action within the app, as well as the ability to resize its window to a custom size or even to the device’s actual pixel size.
I initially remembered that it is already possible to natively mirror an iPhone’s display on a Mac using QuickTime Player[…] Unfortunately, QuickTime Player’s video capture often produces artifacts and has a latency of up to one second. This is far from ideal for screen recording or showcasing the iPhone’s display during a presentation. In contrast, I found Bezel’s video to be smoother and nearly instant.
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Does what it says, smoothly displays a mirror of your iPhone once you connect your phone to your Mac with a USB cable and launch the app on your Mac.
The Sequoia built-in iPhone Mirroring app is different because you interact with the phone on the Mac, and the phone display is off during use. If you want to be able to use the phone itself and just mirror it, this Bezel app does it.
A strange side-effect - it felt like my touchpad click required a more firm press while using Bezel. Weird.
A bit of a janky thing - when the Bezel Mac app launches in the Dock, it immediately quits and another Bezel icon appears in the Dock after that, happens on every launch of the Bezel app. I assume the app launches some demon or some other separate thing so it quits itself after it does the launch. Just looks janky.
They need to add to their FAQ the difference if any between the App Store version and the direct purchase version. Maybe there is no difference other than the price. They should state it. App Store - $30/year, any number of Macs I guess. Direct from their "nonstrict" website - pay once $30/1 Mac or $70/3 Macs.
I don't really need what it does for now so removed it because the touchpad thing annoyed me.
