Hovercraft is a new Mac app that makes video call presentations more personal

Simply sharing your screen in a way that feels natural during a video call can be too complicated. Hovercraft is a new Mac app that solves a very specific problem regarding screen sharing during video calls.

New Mac app is a virtual camera that works with any video calling software

Created by Adam Lisagor, Hovercraft is delightfully simple in what it wants to achieve.

Screen sharing on most video calling apps usually defaults to reducing or replacing your video feed in favor of what you’re showing. While this makes sense in many contexts, Mac usage is all about choice and utility.

This is where Hovercraft comes into play. This is a lightweight utility that gives you a new camera choice on your Mac.

When you use Hovercraft as your camera source during a video call, you can easily share something on your screen without content from your computer taking over your video feed. This is the key feature. You stay focused during the video call and whatever window you’re sharing, you hover over it as an extra layer.

The result is a more personal presentation.

Being virtually face-to-face on a video call is a great way to keep someone’s attention, but it’s easy to lose focus when the presentation involves watching someone use a computer. Plus, Hovercraft goes further with useful gesture controls, keyboard shortcuts and much more.

For example, you can pinch and grab the floating window to move it or change the size like a magician. If the window is a PDF set, you can navigate it with the left and right arrow keys without messing with the Chrome app. Since its launch, Hovercraft has also added annotations, tapping on a floating window and seamlessly switching between the floating window and your video feed as a larger window.

Hovercraft for Mac is free and costs $19 for a single Mac. Check it out today and see if it solves a problem you might not have known existed.

It’s also a great app to install and try on your Mac, if only to play around with the tutorial and try out the window movement pinch gesture. This is a lot like moving windows in the Apple Vision Pro app, but on macOS. This makes sense since Hovercraft comes from Sandwich Vision, creator of Theater for visionOS.