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PiP

macOS Picture in Picture and AirPlay Receiver

From amitv87·Updated June 24, 2026·View on GitHub·

Always on top window preview with AirPlay receiver support (if on macOS 12+, turn-off built-in AirPlay receiver from system preferences) The project is written primarily in C, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2017. Key topics include: airplay, airplay-receiver, airplay-server, airplaymirror, always-on-top.

Latest release: v3.01
January 21, 2026View Changelog →

macOS Picture in Picture

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

Code Info

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

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Download and install via Homebrew

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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

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