A floating window that stays on top of full-screen apps and every desktop, even mid-swipe. Float a video, a whole browser, or any real app.
Switch to an app in full screen and Brave's or Chrome's picture-in-picture is gone. macOS won't layer an ordinary window over another app's full-screen Space. It's been that way since 2020.
One shortcut in Brave or Chrome and the video floats, up to 60 fps, hardware-encoded. Sound keeps playing from the tab. Scroll over it for volume, sideways to seek.
Tabs, an address bar, logins that stick, downloads. Ads and trackers are blocked inside WebKit before a request is even made, YouTube ads are skipped, and unpacked web extensions load too.
Float your actual Brave, chat app or terminal, fully usable. Point at the window and your real cursor is handed over: clicks, typing and drag-and-drop are genuine. Resize it and the app re-lays out, so text stays sharp.
Everything here works in every mode, from any app, even full-screen ones. The window in the corner of your screen is listening: try it.
Or drag it: it springs to the nearest corner. Flick it past the edge to slide it in.
A non-activating panel that joins every Space as a full-screen auxiliary, from a menu-bar app. That combination is what lets it sit over other apps' full-screen Spaces.
The panel lives in its own window-server space, the same technique menu-bar tools use to stay "sticky", so it doesn't move while you swipe between desktops.
A hidden virtual display is the app's stage: nothing covers it there, so it never stops rendering. Frames go straight to the panel, and your cursor is handed over while you point at it.
30 KB · Brave or Chrome 116+ · only needed for Video mode
Unzip and drag PiP Anywhere into Applications.
It isn't notarized, so right-click → Open the first time, or run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/PiP Anywhere.app"A PiP icon appears. Turn on Open at login to have it always ready.
Unzip it, open brave://extensions, turn on Developer mode, Load unpacked, and pin it.
Prefer to build it? Xcode 16+ and Node 20+: instructions on GitHub.
Because it disappears the moment you switch to an app in full screen. macOS doesn't layer an ordinary app's window over another app's full-screen Space; the bug has been open since 2020. PiP Anywhere owns its floating window, so it can stay.
Not in Video or Live Apps mode: DRM video can't be captured. The floating browser plays what Safari can.
The prebuilt app isn't notarized by Apple. The first time, right-click it and choose Open, or run the one-line command above. You can also build it yourself from source.
Screen Recording shows the real app's window live in the floating window (nothing is recorded or saved). Accessibility moves that window to a hidden display and hands it your cursor. Video and the floating browser need neither.
A few, for staying still while you swipe desktops, the resize cursor and Live Apps' virtual display. They're loaded at runtime; if a future macOS removes one, that feature turns off and the rest keeps working.
Yes. Open source under the MIT licence, no accounts, no tracking.
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