Grab your movie. Squeeze or drag it anywhere on your Mac.
Watching a film while you work? VLC vanishes the second you switch Space. Vihover stays exactly where you put it — across every desktop, every fullscreen app — and moves with two fingers from anywhere on the window.
Free for as long as you like — playback just pauses every 15 minutes. $9 kills the pause for good. No subscription, no account.
VLC plays everything. It just won't stay out of your way.
Pin VLC on top and the friction starts: it loses you when you switch Spaces or go fullscreen, it sits on the very paragraph you were reading — so you resize it, then resize it back — and you spend the day grabbing its title bar to drag it around. Vihover keeps VLC’s playback power and deletes the friction: the video stays exactly where you put it, shrinks under a pinch the moment it’s in the way, and moves before you’ve finished thinking about it.
Move it with two fingers
Slide two fingers anywhere on the video and it follows. No title bar to hunt, nothing to click. It just moves.
Pinch to resize
Bigger for the good part, smaller for the meeting. One pinch, done — playback never skips a frame.
Follows you everywhere
Switch desktops, go fullscreen in another app — your video comes along. Always visible, never stealing focus.
Every video you're watching. One floating window.
A film for tonight, a course for lunch breaks, a reference clip for work — each in its own tab, with its own playlist, position, audio track and subtitles. Switch tabs like a browser. Nothing gets tangled.
A small player with a full-size feature set.
No library to manage, no chrome fighting for attention. Vihover disappears into your workflow — until you reach for it, and everything a real player should do is right there.
Floats over everything
Above every window, on every desktop — without ever covering your Dock or menu bar.
Plays every file
VLC's engine is built in: MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, WebM, HEVC, network streams. If it's video, it plays.
Never records your screen
A real player, not a screen capture — so macOS never shows you that alarming screen-recording prompt.
A tab for each thing you watch
Open as many as you like — a film, a course, a reference clip. Every tab holds its own playlist, and clicking back to one picks it up exactly where you left it: same second, same audio track, same subtitles.
Lands on the exact second
Skip 15 seconds either way, scrub with two fingers, or drag straight to the moment you want.
Subtitles done right
Embedded or external tracks, live size control, clean audio-track switching. Like a full player should.
Real fullscreen too
One key and it takes over its own Space, VLC-style — controls fade out on their own.
Remembers everything
Quit anytime. Every tab reopens at the same second, same tracks, same state.
Twenty-five years of VLC. Zero window wrestling.
What the fuck? I’m obsessive about UX — and VLC is a monument. It decodes what nothing else will, it has outlived every rival, and it hands Vihover its engine. I owe it a great deal. The engineering is brilliant; the UX is average. Thing is, monuments don’t move much — interface was never the mission: VLC was built to play everything, not to stay out of your way.
And its thousand settings belong to the purists — long may they tweak. I just watch films while I work, and I only ever reach for four things: the audio track, the subtitles, the size, the corner it sits in. Five, on the nights the subtitles drift. So I kept the engine, and rebuilt the window around those.
$9. Once. That's the whole pricing page.
Use it free as long as you want — the pause every 15 minutes is the only catch. $9 removes it, once. No subscription, no account, no upsell.
once — less than a movie ticket
macOS 12 Monterey or later · Apple Silicon & Intel
Fair questions. Straight answers.
Picture in Picture only works with a handful of apps and won’t touch a local MKV. Vihover floats any file you own, stays put when you switch Spaces or go fullscreen, and moves with a two-finger slide — no title bar to chase, no window to re-pin.
Yes, for as long as you like — and it isn’t a trial: nothing expires, nothing counts down. Every feature is there from the first launch, none of them crippled: pinch to resize, every Space, tabs, playlists, subtitles, fullscreen, every format. The one catch is that playback pauses every 15 minutes. Resume is one click away, as often as you want — you just wait ten seconds first. Paying removes the pause for good, and if it turns out not to be for you, write to hello@vihover.app and I refund you. No questions, no form to fill.
From Arc’s picture-in-picture player, which got one thing exactly right: a video window should be small, obedient, and out of the way — you push it into a corner and it stays there, no matter what you do next. The catch is that it only ever holds what a browser can play. Vihover takes that feeling and points it at the films sitting on your own drive, with VLC’s engine underneath.
No. VLC’s playback engine ships inside Vihover. Download once and every format just plays — nothing else to set up.
Never. It’s a real player, not a screen-capture tool — so macOS never shows you the screen-recording permission prompt, and nothing about your display is ever read.
MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM, HEVC and network streams — everything VLC decodes. If it’s video, it plays.
macOS 12 Monterey or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
Your video. Always in view. Never in the way.
Every video on your Mac learns to float. Download it free, drag a file in, and you'll get it in ten seconds. Pay the day you're tired of the pause.
Download it freeor just take it · $9