For people with more than one Mac
Your other Mac's windows, live on this one.
oriel opens a single window from one of your Macs on another as a real window: resizable, with your keyboard and mouse, Retina-sharp, up to 120 fps. Pay once. No subscription, no account, no cloud.
Launch price: $7.99 until 4 Nov, then $14.99.
Mac Studio
Timeline
Notes: Q4 plan
Terminal
Stay put: the window stays on the other Mac, so people there see it working.
Three ways to beam
Choose what the other Mac does while you work.
Stay put
The window stays on the other Mac and keeps working there, so anyone at that Mac sees what you do. Good for helping someone, or a Mac on a desk across the room.
Fluid
The window on the other Mac is resized to match yours, pixel for pixel. Nothing is scaled, so text stays crisp at any size you pick.
Send over
The window leaves the other Mac's screen and lives on yours until you send it back.
What's in 1.0
Everything you'd want from a window onto another Mac.
Single windows or whole displays
Pick one window from the other Mac, or bring over a whole display.
Native, sharp, up to 120 fps
Resizable, keyboard and mouse, Retina-sharp, smooth.
Several Macs on one desktop
Windows from several Macs, side by side, on the Mac you're using.
Start apps on the other Mac
Pick an app from the other Mac's list and its window opens on yours.
Quick Open from anywhere
Press Control-Option-Space, type a few letters, press Return.
Starred windows and automatic reconnect
Your usual windows come back by themselves after sleep or a Wi-Fi change.
Wake a sleeping Mac
One click sends a wake signal to a Mac that has gone to sleep.
Data saver, live stats and keep on top
Cap the bandwidth on slow links, see the frame rate and delay, pin a window above the rest.
Per-app audio
Sound from the beamed app plays on your Mac.
Clipboard sync and file drop
Copy on one Mac, paste on the other. Drag files onto a beamed window to send them.
Headless Mac mini and Mac Studio
Pair it once with your licence key and it just works, no display attached.
Share links for anyone
One window in any browser, end-to-end encrypted. Guests need nothing installed.
Lives in the menu bar
Your Macs, their windows and share links, one click away. English at launch.
Private by design
Mac to Mac. Nothing in between.
End-to-end encrypted
X25519 key exchange and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for every frame, keystroke and file.
Direct connection
Over your local network, or Tailscale from anywhere. No relay for your own Macs.
Pairing you can see
A 6-digit code on both screens, or automatic for Macs with the same licence key.
Hidden by default
Password managers and hidden windows are never listed. Hide any app you like.
oriel contacts our server only to check your licence. Share links go through a relay that sees only encrypted bytes. Read exactly what is sent in the privacy policy.
Compared
Pay once, and keep it.
| Feature | oriel | Beam | macOS Screen Sharing | Jump Desktop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 once at launch, then $14.99 | $7 a month, $84 a year or $199 lifetime | Free, built into macOS | $34.99 once |
| Free use | Sharing free forever; viewing free for 3 days per Mac | 20 minutes a day | Unlimited | Not confirmed |
| Subscription | No | Monthly or yearly (lifetime option) | No | No |
| Share a single window | Yes | Yes | Whole desktop only | Whole desktop |
| Windows open as native windows on your desktop | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Account or sign-in | None | Sign in on each Mac | None (Mac user login) | Not confirmed |
| Intel Macs | Yes | Apple silicon only | Yes | Yes |
| View a window in any browser | Share links, 1 hour to 7 days | Share links, 1 hour to a week | No | Not confirmed |
| Macs per purchase | 3 | Every Mac you own | Every Mac | Not confirmed |
From each maker's own pages in October 2026; a dash means we couldn't confirm it. Screen Sharing and Jump Desktop show a whole desktop in a window of its own; they don't open single windows.
Pricing
Sharing is free. Viewing is a one-time licence.
oriel licence
Pay once$7.99Regular price $14.99once
Launch price: $7.99 until 4 Nov, then $14.99.
- View windows and displays from all your Macs, on 3 Macs
- Stay put, Fluid and Send over, per-app audio, clipboard and file drop
- Share links: one window in any browser, 1 hour to 7 days
- Free updates to the current major version
- 7-day refunds if it doesn't work on your Macs
Checkout opens at launch. Leave your email and we'll write once you can buy, at the launch price.
Email me at launchNo card for the trial. macOS 14 Sonoma or later on both Macs.
- Sharing is free, forever
- The Mac whose windows you open never needs a licence. Install oriel there and leave it.
- 3-day trial per Mac
- Viewing works fully for three days on each Mac you try it on. No card, no account.
- One licence, 3 Macs
- Paste the same key on each. Macs with the same key pair with each other automatically.
- No subscription, no cloud
- Pay once. Windows travel straight between your Macs, end-to-end encrypted.
How buying works
1Pay once
Checkout is run by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record.
2Get the key
It shows on the thank-you page and arrives by email.
3Paste it
In oriel's menu bar icon, Licence…, on up to 3 Macs.
Questions
Good to know before you buy.
It opens a window from one of your Macs on another of your Macs as a real, native window: you can resize it, type into it and click in it, it is sharp on Retina displays and runs at up to 120 fps. You can share one window or a whole display, and put windows from several Macs on one desktop.
Yes. Install it on the Mac whose windows you want to share and on the Mac you want to see them on. Sharing a Mac's windows is free forever; viewing them needs oriel, with a 3-day free trial on each Mac and no card.
$7.99 once at launch, until 4 Nov, then $14.99 once. No subscription and no account. One licence covers 3 Macs, and the Macs that share the same licence key pair with each other automatically.
No window does. Your Macs talk to each other directly, on your network or over Tailscale, and everything between them is end-to-end encrypted (X25519 key exchange, ChaCha20-Poly1305). oriel contacts our server only to check your licence. Share links pass through a relay, which sees only encrypted bytes: the key is in the part of the link after #, which browsers never send.
Macs that have the same licence key pair automatically. Otherwise, choose the other Mac in oriel and both screens show the same 6-digit code: if they match, click Allow on the sharing Mac. A paired Mac is remembered.
They decide what happens on the sharing Mac. Stay put leaves the window where it is, so people there see it working. Fluid resizes the window on the sharing Mac to match yours, pixel for pixel. Send over takes the window off the sharing Mac's screen until you send it back.
Yes, with a share link. It shows one window in any web browser, view-only unless you allow control, and lasts from 1 hour to 7 days. Your guest installs nothing. The link is end-to-end encrypted: the relay that carries it can't see the window.
Two Macs, one desk, no subscription.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later on both Macs. Apple silicon and Intel.