Pocket Screen
Keep any Mac window visible in a floating mini screen
Details
- External ID
- 1195968
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pocket Screen
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- July 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 207
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3440366972477064
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- floating window manager for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a macOS menu bar app that uses Apple's native ScreenCaptureKit framework to capture specific window frames and display them in a floating NSWindow set to stay always on top.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 426 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #252 of 427 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.
- SideMini · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Fuwa · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- NearKit · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Drape · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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- No other launches for this product.
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