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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.

PH · launched Jul 17, 2026 · 207 upvotes (top 66%) · 0 views

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Menu Bar Apps

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More like this: all 103 launches in desktop window managers →

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 : 1145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #779 of 1146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PocketBar · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Tinycap · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • SideMini · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Fuwa · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Minimizall · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • DockLens · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • ScreenVeil · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53

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