Launching today
Pocket Screen
Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen
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Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen
71 followers
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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"no mention of multi monitor support, curious how it behaves if the floating window and the source app are on different displays"
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@gavin_porter1 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.
"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?"
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@reid_anderson4 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.
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.
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@bayraktuta26773 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.
so it's not a window manager, more just pin-and-forget then"
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@paige_lauren2 Yes!
It’s designed to be a simple pin-and-forget tool rather than a full window manager.
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.
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@zcan1758563 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.
"kinda just PiP for any app then?"
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@mason_clark2 Exactly!
It’s essentially picture-in-picture for almost any app window on your Mac.