Fuwa
Keep a Mac window in view while you work
Details
- External ID
- 1258855
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fuwa
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Fuwa keeps a live view of a window on top of your other Mac apps. Keep reference images, notes, or tutorials in sight, and freeze a frame when you need it to stay still. Free and open source. macOS 14+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- floating window pin utility for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The user interface is minimal, but capturing arbitrary running windows as live interactive layers with click-through transparency and frame freezing requires private or deep macOS CoreGraphics and ScreenCaptureKit APIs.
What it would actually take: Fuwa is written in Swift using macOS ScreenCaptureKit (or CGWindowListCreateImage) to stream specific window frames in real-time, paired with an NSPanel floating window set to `.floating` or `.status` window level with `ignoresMouseEvents = true`. The hard part is low-overhead continuous frame capture without stuttering, handling window repositioning/resizing of the target app, and managing macOS Screen Recording permission models. macOS systems-level and graphics compositor API expertise is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 279 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 280 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pocket Screen · ph · 2026-07-17 · 207 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time. · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Web Frames · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Camoscope · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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