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.

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!

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.

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

Pocket Screen

Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen

Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen