macOS Picture in Picture

Always on top window preview with AirPlay receiver support (if on macOS 12+, turn-off built-in AirPlay receiver from system preferences)

Code Info

• Nibless cocoa app
• OpenGL/Metal renderer with HiDPI support
• CoreGraphics based capturer (looking for alternative)
• No third party dependency
• Uses private framework for native pip support
• AirPlay backend from https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay and https://github.com/KqSMea8/AirplayServer

Features

• Clone any visibile window
• Clone multiple active display
• Camera preview
• HLS streaming
• Airplay sender (unstable)
• 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
• Upto 10 parallel airplay sessions (soft limit)

Installation

Manual download

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 -alltargets
open build/Release/PiP.app

# or simply
./run.sh