Filip Brož From time to time, an application that can record the screen of an iPhone or iPad goes through Apple's approval process. It was recently, for example application video. However, the Californian company figured it out the very next day and pulled the app from the App Store. Unless you're jailbroken, the only way to record your iOS device's screen is to use a cable in combination with the native QuickTime app on your Mac.
However, QuickTime has several drawbacks, such as the fact that the resulting video is in MOV format, which is not always ideal. However, there is an alternative, the AceThinker iPhone Screen Recorder application, which, unlike QuickTim, works via AirPlay and uses Wi-Fi to record the screen. Thanks to this, the use of any cable is completely eliminated.
Once you've downloaded iPhone Screen Recorder for Mac or Windows, pull up Control Center on your iPhone or iPad and turn on AirPlay mirroring. The condition for it to work correctly is that your iPhone must be on the same Wi-Fi network as your Mac or PC. Once you have completed all the steps, the current iPhone screen will appear on your computer monitor.
You can use screen mirroring and the entire application from AceThinker in two ways. On the one hand, it will serve as a "projector" of the iPhone screen to a large monitor, but it is much more effective to record what is happening on the iPhone. Just press the button and you're recording...
AceThinker iPhone Screen Recorder surprised me with more than decent recording quality. I expected there to be some loss due to AirPlay, but the app will record in 720p or 1080p without issue, just like QuickTime. On the other hand, you don't have to have any cable connected, and the resulting video is in MP4 format, which is easier to work with afterwards.
If you take a screenshot while recording, you can find the finished image in the same folder (which you specify and name in advance) as the entire recording, which I like. Everything is in one place. Many will certainly appreciate the Czech localization as well.
While testing iPhone Screen Recorder, I recorded the screen of an iPhone or iPad surprisingly without any problems. Of course, stable Wi-Fi is a prerequisite, but connecting to the application via AirPlay almost always worked instantly. In addition, I sometimes experienced minor hesitation with cable and QuickTime.
AceThinker iPhone Screen Recorder you can now get as part of the discount event for 20 euros (540 crowns) for Mac or for Windows (regular price is double), which is of course more than QuickTime, which you get for free as part of macOS. On the other hand, thanks to AirPlay, iPhone Screen Recorder gives you the freedom to record the screen without the need to use a cable, and you can also use it for simple mirroring and, for example, presenting photos on a larger display.
I would dispute the claim that it is better to work with MP4 than with MOV, it rather depends on the quality of the captured video (compression, resolution and fps)
20 euros for an ordinary AirPlay stream recorder? That's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it? :-/
And what is it good for?
"Lonely screen" is free and does the same…
And it's not the only app.