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FloatPlayer

FloatPlayer

Simple Mac app for floating a YouTube video on your screen

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Simple Mac app for floating a YouTube video on your screen

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FloatPlayer is a simple Mac app that plays a floating YouTube-video on your screen. The player is visible even on top of full-screen apps. It's also completely open source. Check it out on GitHub.
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github.com/codeclown/FloatPlayer
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Launched in 2018View 1 launch
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Martti Laine

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Leonard
Leonard
Fuzion

Fuzion

I don't really see the point. You can just right click on a youtube video and use picture-in-picture mode.
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7yr ago
✎ Andrew Warner
✎ Andrew Warner
Origami

Origami

@leonardrockstar that’s only on Safari
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7yr ago
Tom
Tom
How is this different to Helium or Aurora on macOS?
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7yr ago
Martti Laine
Martti Laine
FloatPlayer

FloatPlayer

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@hellotom I had never heard of either, but I suppose it's not very different. (It is actually quite a funny coincidence that the screenshot on Helium's page also displays the video on top of Xcode viewing the apps source code.)
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7yr ago
Adrian Salvaggio
Adrian Salvaggio
Opera browser has this functionality built in
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7yr ago
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