Please read this before using MIRA. By using the app you accept what follows.
1. What MIRA is
MIRA turns this device into a controller — a pointing device, a gamepad, a keyboard and mouse — for another machine that you own, and shows you that machine's screen while you use it. It is a mirror and an input device. It does not provide, host or distribute any game, program or content of its own.
Setting up a machine for you. For that to work, the other machine has to run a small companion host. On Windows you download and install it yourself. On other systems the app can do it for you, and when it does it is worth knowing exactly what happens: at your explicit request, and only on the machine you point it at, the app opens an SSH connection with the credentials you type in, copies its own host files onto that machine — plain scripts, shipped inside the app — and starts them. Nothing is installed anywhere on its own, nothing is downloaded from the internet during the process, and the app never touches a machine you have not asked it to set up. You can choose a temporary setup, which lives in memory and disappears when the machine restarts, or a permanent one, which the app can also remove for you afterwards.
None of this runs on your iPhone. Those files are for the other machine and are executed only there. The app never downloads, installs or runs code on your device: everything it does there is in the app you got from the App Store, and its behaviour never changes after you install it.
2. Personal use only
MIRA is made for personal, private use, in your own home, with people you know.
It is not licensed for commercial, public or business use. That includes, but is not limited to: arcades, bars, gaming centres, rental businesses, events open to the public, exhibitions, and any setting where access to the machine is sold, rented or offered as a service. If you want to use MIRA in any of those contexts, write to us first.
3. Minimum age
You must be at least 13 years old to use MIRA. If you are under 18, use it with the permission of a parent or guardian, and let them see who you play with. Where the law of your country sets a higher age for consenting to the processing of personal data — 14 in Italy — that age applies to you instead.
4. Only your own machines
You may connect only to machines that you own, or that you are explicitly authorised to use by whoever owns them. Using MIRA to reach a computer you have no right to use is forbidden, and it is your responsibility alone.
5. You decide who gets in
MIRA never opens your machine on its own. Every person who connects has to be approved, one by one, by you. If you share your address, your ports or a connection with someone, you do it at your own discretion and at your own risk, and you remain responsible for what the people you approved do while they are connected — including anything they can see on that screen and any command they send to that machine.
Do it only if you understand what you are doing. If you are not sure, don't.
6. Use a dedicated machine
MIRA streams a screen and accepts remote input. That is exactly what you want on a machine used for playing, and it is not what you want on the computer that holds your documents, your passwords or your work.
We strongly recommend running MIRA on a dedicated machine, with nothing personal or sensitive on it. Keep the built-in protections on, and share access only with people you trust.
7. Shared layouts: what you send, and what you can do about what you receive
A layout is the only thing in MIRA that travels between people. It carries everything it is made of: the buttons, their positions, the name you gave it and the background colour. Share only layouts you are comfortable putting in someone else's hands.
A layout you receive was made by someone else, so MIRA gives you four things:
- You see it before you accept it. Importing always shows you a preview of the layout, with its name and its background. Nothing enters the app until you say yes.
- You can report it. The import screen has a “Report this content” button. It opens your email app with a message already written to support@mirastation.com. Nothing is sent automatically: the report reaches us only if you send that email.
- You can block people. On the machine, you approve every person one by one, you can disconnect anyone at any moment, and you can ban an address permanently.
- You can reach a human. support@mirastation.com, answered by a person.
There is no MIRA server and no catalogue of layouts: they pass directly from one person to another, so there is no central copy for us to remove. What we can do is act on the app itself when a report shows something is wrong with it.
Do not give layouts offensive or unlawful names. If you do, it is on you.
8. No warranty
MIRA is provided “as is”, without any warranty of any kind. We do not promise that it will work with any particular machine, program, game or accessory, that it will be free of errors or interruptions, or that it will keep working after a change made by third parties — including operating system updates and changes to drivers or software we do not control.
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, MIRA and its author decline responsibility for: direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damage; loss of data; unauthorised access to your computer, your network or your accounts resulting from your own configuration choices — the approvals you granted, the addresses you shared, the ports you opened; damage caused by the actions of people you approved; and any interaction with games, emulators or other third-party software.
What this does not cover
This limitation does not apply, and we do not attempt to exclude our liability, in cases of wilful misconduct or gross negligence (Italian Civil Code, art. 1229), for death or personal injury, or in any other case where the law does not allow liability to be excluded — including liability for defective products. Nothing here limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot be waived by agreement.
Beyond that, you use this software at your own risk. The best protection we can give you is not a clause but section 6: use a dedicated machine.
10. Third-party software and components
MIRA has nothing to do with the programs, games or files present on your machine, and does not supply, host or endorse any of them. Whatever you run on your own machine is your responsibility, including respecting the rights of whoever owns it.
This app uses one open-source component: an SSH client library, based on libssh2, used only when you ask the app to set a machine up for you. Copyright (c) the libssh2 contributors; distributed under its own BSD-style licence and governed by it.
The companion host is a separate, free program that you download and install on your own computer. It is not part of this app, it is not distributed through the App Store, and it comes with its own terms and its own list of third-party components, which you accept when you install it.
11. Purchases
Any purchase inside MIRA is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple through the App Store, restorable on your devices with the same Apple ID. Refunds follow Apple's own policy: we cannot issue them ourselves.
12. If you break these terms
These terms let you use MIRA as described here. If you use it for something they forbid — a commercial or public setting, a machine you have no right to use, sharing illegal material — that permission ends, and you must stop using the app. Since MIRA has no accounts and no servers, there is nothing for us to switch off remotely: the obligation is yours, and so is the responsibility for what you did. Purchases already made are not refunded in that case.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by Italian law. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings before the court of your own place of residence.
14. Changes
These terms may change as the app changes. The current version is always the one you find inside the app.
15. Contact
support@mirastation.com — mirastation.com
MIRA is made by one person. Write, and you will get an answer from a human.
Looking for how your data is handled? See the Privacy Policy.