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Pocket Screen — Keep your reference in view without switching windows

About Pocket Screen

Pocket Screen helps you work with reference material on a single Mac display. Keep a PDF beside your writing, a tutorial beside your editor, or a dashboard in view while you continue your main task. It creates independent live Picture-in-Picture reference views of supported Mac windows, leaving the originals available.

Focus on a useful area, move and resize the view, freeze important content, or use Click Through. To keep content from different tabs of one browser window, freeze a reference before changing the tab and adding another view. Frozen views retain a snapshot; they do not update hidden browser tabs independently. Customizable keyboard shortcuts, arrangement and opacity controls help the views fit the way you work.

The free app supports up to two views and 10 minutes of PiP use per app launch. Unlimited removes the time limit, supports up to four views and adds Ultra quality, up to 4K/60 fps on supported Macs. Choose a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. No account is required, and captured window content stays on your Mac. Requires macOS 14 or later.

US App Store: Unlimited Access US$9.99 one-time, or Pocket Screen Unlimited US$2.99 per month.

Starting price: US$2.99/month or US$9.99 one-time

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Features

  • Live reference views

    Keep a supported Mac app window visible above your work in a compact live view.

  • Free: two views. Unlimited: four.

    Free supports up to two views and 10 minutes of PiP use per app launch. Unlimited supports up to four views without the time limit.

  • Click-Through

    Let mouse clicks pass through the reference view to the app underneath.

  • Freeze & opacity

    Freeze a frame or adjust transparency when you need a lighter reference.

  • Privacy-aware capture

    Keep Pocket Screen out of supported screenshots, screen recordings, and screen sharing when enabled.

  • Four quality modes with Unlimited

    Free includes three quality modes. Unlimited adds Ultra, up to 4K/60 fps on supported Macs.

Details

Platforms
  • macOS
Pricing
  • Freemium
  • Subscription
  • One-time purchase
Building since

2026

Technology

Keep multiple reference views beside your work

1 / 4

Website performance

Recorded mobile lab measurements and finalized weekly standings from IndieTools Speed.

75GoodMobile Lighthouse

Measured · UTC

Load time
1.14 s
FCP
1.40 s
LCP
6.95 s
CLS
0.001
TTFB
2 ms
TBT
85 ms
Speed index
3.60 s

These stored lab observations describe controlled test runs. They are not real-user Core Web Vitals or a guarantee of search rankings. Weekly standings below remain attached to their finalized edition.

Overall rank · 2026-W42
#727
Down 153 places
Best overall rank
#491
0 top 10 finishes
Best category rank
#110
0 category wins
Latest change
+1 score
Best score 75 / 100

Method: psi-mobile-two-sample-mean-v1 · 2 samples per reading. Only readings with the same recorded method and sample count share a chart. Lab results can vary between runs.

Website performance history

Inspect every successful mobile Lighthouse lab measurement by metric and date range.

Range

Latest score

75 / 100

Higher is better
8 measurements

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Oct 18, 2026Oct 24, 2026

Weekly rank history

Track the product's finalized overall position on the IndieTools Speed leaderboard.

Range

MetricOverall rank

Latest rank

#727

Closer to #1 is better
2 weeks

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Oct 5, 2026Oct 12, 2026

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