Mac OS X Picture in Picture

Always on top window preview similar to the popular windows only OnTopReplica

Code Info

• Nibless cocoa app
• OpenGL/Metal renderer
• CoreGraphics based capturer (looking for alternative)
• No third party dependency
• Uses private framework for native pip support

Features

• Clone any visibile window
• Crop the preview
• Auto and manual resize preserving the aspect ratio
• Multiple window preview from same process,

  cmd+n

  to open and

  cmd+w

  to close
• Pinch to zoom
• Native picture in picture support

  cmd+p

• Transparency/opacity control (slider in right click menu)
• Minimal modern UI

To do

• Almost all the missing features when compared to OnTopReplica

Installation

Manual download

PiP-1.40.dmg

Download and install via Homebrew

brew install --cask amitv87-pip

Build from source and run

# checkout code
git clone https://github.com/amitv87/PiP.git
cd pip

build using xcode
xcodebuild
open build/Release/PiP.app
or simply
./run.sh
right click on the window and select an option from the list
right click again and select last option to crop the preview