The simple act of sharing your screen during a video call in a way that feels natural can be overwhelming. It’s a hovercraft new Mac software solves a very specific problem with screen sharing during video calls.
The new Mac app is a virtual camera that works with any video calling app
Created by Adam Lisagor, Hovercraft is delightfully simple in what it sets out to achieve.
In most video calling apps, screen sharing usually minimizes or replaces your video feed by default in favor of displaying it. While this makes sense in many contexts, using a Mac is about choice and convenience.
This is where the hovercraft comes into the picture. It’s a lightweight app that gives you a new camera option on your Mac.
When using Hovercraft as the camera source in a video call, you can easily share anything on your screen without the content of your computer taking over your video feed. This is the main feature. You stay in focus during a video call, and whatever window you’re sharing it with just slides over it like an extra layer.
The result is a more personal presentation.
Being virtually face-to-face on a video call is a great way to get someone’s attention, but it’s easy to lose focus when the presentation shifts to watching someone use their computer. Plus, Hovercraft comes with useful gesture-based controls, keyboard shortcuts, and more. goes further with
For example, you can pinch and hold a floating window to move or resize it like a wizard. If the window is a PDF deck, you can switch with the left and right arrow keys without messing with chrome. Since launch, Hovercraft has also added annotation, writing over the floating window, and seamlessly transitioning between the floating window and your video feed as a larger window.
Hovercraft for Mac is free to try and starts at $19 per Mac. Check it out today and see if it fixes a problem you didn’t know you had.
It’s also a neat app to just install and try out on your Mac, even if it’s just to play around with the tutorial and try out the window movement pinch gesture. It’s like moving Apple Vision Pro app windows around, but on macOS. This makes sense since the makers of the Hovercraft are from Sandwich Vision theater for visionOS.
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