--- title: My old phone plays my PC games better than the latest... description: A personal account of streaming PC games to an iPhone 14 Pro Max using Vibepollo (an NVENC split-frame encoding fork of Sunshine) and the Moonlight app. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-old-phone-plays-my-pc-games-better-than-the-latest-flagships-ever-could-thanks-to-this-free-app-2mtseoegx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My old phone plays my PC games better than the latest flagships ever could, thanks to this free app | daily.dev og:description: A personal account of streaming PC games to an iPhone 14 Pro Max using Vibepollo (an NVENC split-frame encoding fork of Sunshine) and the Moonlight app. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-old-phone-plays-my-pc-games-better-than-the-latest-flagships-ever-could-thanks-to-this-free-app-2mtseoegx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2mTSeOEGX.png og:image:alt: My old phone plays my PC games better than the latest flagships ever could, thanks to this free app og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My old phone plays my PC games better than the latest flagships ever could, thanks to this free app **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of streaming PC games to an iPhone 14 Pro Max using Vibepollo (an NVENC split-frame encoding fork of Sunshine) and the Moonlight app. The setup gives access to a full Steam library on mobile without needing the latest hardware, since the phone only decodes a video stream while the desktop does all rendering. Tailscale extends the setup beyond the home network. The author walks through the basic setup steps and highlights practical everyday use cases like gaming while cooking or in bed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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