macOS · one-time purchase

Stop babysitting
the thing you’re waiting on.

Perch floats any window or web page above your work — and tells you the moment the part you care about changes.

Free for 7 days, no card · Apple Silicon · macOS 13+

What it watches

You don’t need to see it. You need to be told.

01

A build. A render. An export.

Start it, park the window in a corner, go and do something else. Perch tells you the second it finishes instead of you checking every two minutes.

02

A queue. A page. A drop.

Tickets, a support queue, a deploy dashboard, a restock. Watch a web page without renting a cloud service by the month.

03

Anything at all.

Native apps, terminals, virtual machines, remote sessions. If your Mac can draw it, Perch can watch it. No cloud, no scraping, no account.

Two ways in

Mirror a window, or host the page yourself.

Mirror a window

Pick any open window — including ones on other Spaces — and it floats above whatever you’re doing, live, at a frame rate that drops to nothing when the picture is still.

Any app

Float a page

Paste a link and Perch hosts it itself. Fully interactive, plays in fullscreen and on every Space, and asks for no permissions whatsoever.

No permissions

Ghost mode lets clicks fall straight through. Snap to edges, fill the screen, or hide every PiP at once before you share your screen.

Before you buy

One limit, stated plainly.

macOS stops drawing a window once it moves to another Space, and nothing can capture what an app isn’t drawing. A mirrored window keeps updating while it’s on your current Space — even fully covered — but freezes if you swipe away from it.

Chromium apps like Chrome can be relaunched with mirroring enabled, and Perch does that in one click. Floated pages have no such limit at all.

Pricing

$15once
  • Every feature. No tiers, no add-ons.
  • Free for 7 days. No card.
  • Free updates through 1.x.
  • Works offline. No account, no server.

Questions

Is there a subscription?

No. One payment. Updates through 1.x are free.

Does it phone home?

Never. Your licence is verified on your Mac, so Perch works on a plane and keeps working whatever happens to this website.

Why does it want Screen Recording?

Only to mirror windows — that’s macOS asking, not us. Floating a web page needs no permission at all.

Intel Macs?

Apple Silicon for now. Email me if you need Intel and I’ll build it.

Refunds?

Ask and you’ll get one. The 7-day trial exists so you don’t have to.