Pennywise

Cross-platform application to open anything in a floating window

Pennywise allows you to open anything in a small floating window that always stays on top of the other applications all the time, allowing you to multitask with ease. No need to keep struggling with alt + tab, use pennywise and have your work in front of you all the time.

Features

• Always stays on top of any open applications
• Adjustable opacity – it gets out of your way while you work
• Resize and place it anywhere
• Shortcuts to make you more productive
• Let's you multitask while you work
• Opensource licensed under MIT
• Lean small resource footprint, minimal User Interface.
• Cross-platform works on MacOS, Windows and Linux

Installation

Download and install the relevant distribution from the releases page

Usecases

Here is the list of some of the possible usecases off the top of my head

• Use it as a floating window for your calendar/checklist/assigned-tickets etc
• Watching tutorial while you code? Open the video in Pennywise and keep it in front of you
• Making a video course? Open the demo in Pennywise and show the output in real time
• Working on some web UI? Open it in Pennywise to avoid pressing alt + tab again and again
• Play some video, watch some talk or play some TV series while you work
• Working on something non-familiar? Open the docs in Pennywise
• Open that live football match that you won't want to miss
• Use it as a desktop widget

Development

Clone the repository, install the dependencies and start the app

yarn install
yarn start

Screenshots

Homescreen for the application

Anything running in pennywise stays on top of everything

You can change the opacity too

Why is it named Pennywise?

Because the application helps in floating and Pennywise loved to do that

Planned Roadmap

• Open local files – PDFs, Images, Video, MP3 etc
• Shortcut to change opacity
• Global shortcut to load currently selected URL
• Persist options and linking options to website
• Option to let the clicks pass through
• Bookmarking links for later use
• Let the clicks pass through
• Add more tests

Contributions

Feel free to implement anything from the roadmap, submit pull requests, create issues, discuss ideas or spread the word.

License

MIT © Kamran Ahmed