Keep a live video, stream, or dashboard floating on top of other apps while working.
Watch or interact with any website in a small always-on-top window, not just video.
Snap a floating browser window into a screen corner with global keyboard shortcuts.
Click through a floating window to the app behind it while content keeps playing.
| bmilioli/pinp | 00kaku/gallery-slider-block | 3rd-eden/ircb.io | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | — |
| Language | JavaScript | JavaScript | JavaScript |
| Last pushed | — | 2021-05-19 | 2016-11-16 |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | general | general | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
The downloaded build is not notarized, so macOS Gatekeeper needs one terminal command to clear the quarantine flag before it will launch.
pinp is a small always on top app for macOS that lets you keep any website floating in a corner of your screen, like a tiny mini browser window, while you work in other apps. Unlike the picture in picture feature already built into Safari or Chrome, which only works with actual video elements on a page, pinp can display any URL at all, and you can still click around and interact with the page inside it, not just play and pause a video. The window has no title bar, no icon in the dock, and no visible controls until you move your mouse to the top edge, where a hidden toolbar with a URL bar and navigation buttons appears. It stays on top even over fullscreen apps and other virtual desktop spaces, without pulling you away from whatever space you are currently using. You can resize it between four preset sizes, snap it into a corner of the screen, cycle through several opacity levels so it is more or less see through, and turn on a click through mode where your mouse passes straight through the window to whatever is behind it while the page keeps playing. Your logins are remembered between restarts, including working sign in flows for services like Google that normally have stricter security checks around embedded browsers. The app also remembers its own position, size, and opacity, and checks that against your currently connected monitors so it never ends up stranded off screen if you unplug a display. To use it, you can download a ready built version for Mac, or run it yourself from the source code if you have Node.js installed. Because the downloaded build is not notarized by Apple, the first time you open it macOS will warn that it is damaged, which is a normal Gatekeeper message rather than a sign of a broken download, and clearing that warning once with a single terminal command fixes it. The project is built with Electron, has no runtime dependencies beyond Electron itself, and includes a full set of global keyboard shortcuts for resizing, snapping, and toggling the window from anywhere on the system.
A floating always-on-top mini browser for macOS that keeps any website visible in a corner of your screen while you work.
Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes JavaScript, Electron, macOS.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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