Pocket Screen

Pocket Screen is a lightweight macOS menu bar utility for keeping reference material visible while you work. It can show up to two app windows as compact, always-on-top PiP-style live views, so you can keep a PDF, browser, dashboard, chat, timer, supported video, or other reference in sight without constantly switching windows.

Each floating view can be moved and resized, its opacity can be adjusted, and Click-Through lets mouse actions pass to the app underneath. You can freeze the current frame, resume the live view, temporarily hide the PiP, or switch the selected PiP to the current frontmost window with a global keyboard shortcut. Pocket Screen can also hide a PiP when its source is unavailable in another macOS Space and restore it when you return.

The PiP is designed as a live reference view rather than a remote-control window: scrolling, clicking, and typing stay in the source app. The source window can remain at its normal size while Pocket Screen shows a scaled-down live view.

Captured pixels are displayed locally on the Mac and are not uploaded to Toybird Labs servers. An optional setting can also exclude Pocket Screen's PiP windows from supported screen captures and screen sharing.

Pocket Screen can be used free in sessions of up to 10 minutes with no expiration. A one-time purchase removes the session time limit.