Introducing Raybeam

Sharing a 49-inch ultrawide monitor shouldn't mean making everyone on a call squint at your entire desktop—or stopping and restarting screen sharing every time you switch windows.

That frustration led me to build Raybeam: a native macOS menu bar app that lets you share a draggable, resizable region of your screen through your usual video conferencing app.

Share the part that matters

Choose the region you want to present, then share Raybeam's preview window in your call. Move and resize the region as you work, keeping the focus on what your audience needs to see.

• Flexible region sharing. Share a selected part of your display instead of an entire monitor or a single application window.
• Hidden Apps. Exclude selected applications, such as Messages or Discord, from the shared region even while their windows are visible on your own screen.
• Drawing. Annotate the shared region by hand to explain an idea or point something out.
• Keyboard shortcuts. Quickly change the region, toggle the live feed, and enter drawing mode.

Built from an everyday problem

Years ago, I built a small Windows app called FrameCast to solve this problem. Returning to an ultrawide setup on macOS brought the same challenge back—and gave me a reason to build a native solution.

I'm Nathan, a software engineer who usually spends spare time on open-source projects. Raybeam is my first paid application, and I'm excited to share it.

A one-time purchase

Raybeam launched on the Mac App Store at $9.99 for a lifetime license. For the latest features and pricing, see the Raybeam website.