Claude Overlay
A floating Claude Code chat that sees your screen
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Claude Overlay is a frameless, always-on-top chat window for Claude Code that floats over everything you do. Summon it with a hotkey, ask about whatever's on screen, and Claude captures and reads your monitors before answering. It runs the full Claude Code agent on your own subscription - no API key - so it can edit files and run commands, not just chat. Open source (MIT), Windows.
PH · launched Jul 14, 2026 · 154 upvotes (top 98%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding assistants · 151 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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More like this: all 151 launches in ai coding assistants →
Could you build this?
Yes Can be built with Electron, Tauri, or native macOS/Windows frameworks using standard desktop window flags (frameless, always-on-top), desktop screen-capture APIs, and piping the screenshot to the Claude API.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 555 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #550 of 556 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.
- Atalay's Terminal · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Claude Notifications · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Buddy · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Chat Exporter for Claude · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SameWindow for Claude · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ClaudePack · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- facecammaxxing · github · 2026-10-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CC-BEEPER · ph · 2026-04-15 · 222 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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