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Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen
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Pocket Screen - Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen

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Pocket Screen turns the frontmost window on your Mac into a compact, always-on-top PiP-style view. Keep documents, chats, videos, or reference material visible while you work in another app—without constantly switching windows. Processing stays on your Mac.

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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Masaki, an indie developer behind Toybird Labs. I built Pocket Screen because I often work on a single Mac display and kept losing focus while switching between a document, browser, chat, and the app I was actually working in. Pocket Screen turns the current frontmost window into a compact, always-on-top PiP-style window. You can keep a document beside your writing, watch a tutorial while following along, monitor chat, or reference a dashboard without constantly changing windows. It is controlled from the menu bar or a global shortcut, and the floating window can be moved, resized, adjusted for opacity, or made click-through. Captured content is displayed locally and is not uploaded. The app is free to try with 10-minute sessions, with a one-time in-app purchase for unlimited use. I’d love to hear how you use it and what would make it more useful in your daily workflow. Thanks for checking it out!

"kinda just PiP for any app then?"

Maker

 Exactly!

It’s essentially picture-in-picture for almost any app window on your Mac.

"no mention of multi monitor support, curious how it behaves if the floating window and the source app are on different displays"

Maker

 Thanks for asking, Gavin!

I’m currently working with a single-display setup, so I haven’t been able to fully test every multi-monitor configuration yet....

Pocket Screen has a free version, so please feel free to try it in your environment.

If you notice any issues, I’d be happy to look into them for a future update.

honestly super useful for keeping docs open while coding. one thing though, would be great if you could set custom keyboard shortcuts to toggle which window becomes the floating view, right now i have to click through menus which kind of breaks the flow. a quick hotkey to swap the target window would make this way more seamless.

Maker

 Thanks, Nehir!

Pocket Screen currently supports Option + Command + P to pin the frontmost window, but I agree that customizable shortcuts and a quicker way to switch the target window would make the workflow even smoother. I’ve added this to my improvement list.

love how it just pins the frontmost window without forcing you through some clunky menu or setup. super clean and feels native to macOS

Maker

 Thank you, Selin!

Keeping Pocket Screen simple and native to macOS was one of my main goals, so I’m really glad that came through.

Love how it just keeps processing local on your Mac instead of bouncing stuff to the cloud. The always-on-top window feels really well done too, super smooth when you're dragging stuff around.

Maker

 Thank you, Özcan!

Keeping the processing local and making the floating window feel smooth and lightweight were both important goals, so I’m really glad you noticed that.

"can you run more than one floating window at once, like a doc + a chat side by side, or is it one at a time?"

Maker

 Thanks for asking, Reid!

Pocket Screen currently supports one floating window at a time. Multiple floating windows are clearly an important use case, so I’ll prioritize adding support in an upcoming update.

so it's not a window manager, more just pin-and-forget then"

Maker

 Yes!

It’s designed to be a simple pin-and-forget tool rather than a full window manager.