✨ Pin window to Top (aka Always On Top)
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Description
Discussed in https://github.com/mrkai77/Loop/discussions/829
Originally posted by luckman212 September 24, 2025
A very useful feature to add to Loop would be "Pinning" a window to the top of the screen. While macOS does not offer a native feature to do this, some clever apps e.g. Topit have used ScreenCaptureKit to make a "clone" of a window and keep that clone on top since it's owned by the app itself. This works fairly well.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading discussion #829 and the issue's references to ScreenCaptureKit and Topit. Then inspect Loop's existing macOS window-management entry points to determine where pinning belongs. Done means a window can be pinned above other windows and unpinned while preserving the expected window behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100