Meeting Apps' Floating Windows Can't Be Resized

Every remote meeting app ships a floating window, and every one of them locks its size. You cannot drag the edge to make it smaller, cannot shrink it out of the way, cannot resize it at all. One size, for every situation.

So you share a slide deck, and the text in the mini window is too small to read. You want it smaller so it stops covering the shared content — no setting for that. Someone joins and the layout gets cramped at exactly the same size it always was. It isn’t that you missed a menu. It genuinely isn’t there.

Where each app gets stuck

Tencent Meeting: the floating mini window works, but only in a few preset sizes, with the aspect ratio locked to the call layout. You can’t shrink it to the corner and use it as a status light.

DingTalk: same story — the mini window has fixed dimensions and follows the main meeting’s layout. You can’t shrink just the video while keeping the controls.

Zoom: the Floating Window can be moved, and some versions let you drag its edge — but the range is limited, and the UI inside doesn’t reflow. The text stays just as small as before.

The shared flaw: these mini windows are designed for the call, not the content. Their goal is to free up screen space, not to let you read it.

The three moments that actually hurt

1. You can’t read the shared deck. Full-screen content shrinks to thumbnail-sized text inside the mini window. To read one number you have to leave the mini window and go back.
2. It covers the thing you’re presenting. You want to move it into a corner, but it only goes in certain spots — either over someone’s face or over the chart you’re demonstrating.
3. Two meetings at once. A main call plus a second one you also have to attend. The built-in mini window handles exactly one; the second means Alt-Tab cycling.

PipNow’s approach: a mini window that’s actually adjustable

PipNow doesn’t try to modify your meeting app’s mini window. It turns the meeting window itself into a floating mini window.

The upside is that it keeps the meeting app’s full interface: share controls, chat, participant list, layout switching — all still available, because this is a complete mirror of that window rather than a restricted video panel.

What that gives you:

• Resizable and repositionable — drag any edge, shrink it to a corner badge, or expand it when you need detail (Pro)
• Hover to preview — keep it tiny in the corner, then move your mouse over it for a sharp on-demand preview. No clicking, no window switching, no losing your place
• Interact inside the preview (Pro) — click through, switch who is sharing, flip a slide, without enlarging the mini window at all
• More than one meeting (Pro) — two calls side by side, plus Slack and a terminal, all pinned at once

How it works

1. Put your cursor at the top-right corner of the meeting window and pause — the trigger block appears
2. Click once, and the entire meeting window becomes a floating mini window pinned above everything else
3. Drag an edge to resize; hover to bring up the preview

The mechanics are covered in floating any window on macOS.

Two honest caveats

• Keep using the app’s own screen sharing. PipNow’s job is keeping the meeting window from being covered, not replacing the meeting’s sharing pipeline. They work well together: share through the app, pin the window with PipNow.
• The first launch needs one permission. PipNow needs Accessibility access to read and float other apps’ windows. You grant it once in System Settings.
• The free plan covers the basics. Hover preview works there, but you get one mini window and no position/size adjustment. Multiple windows and full adjustability are Pro.

The wider point

A locked mini-window size is a design assumption: the app expects you to keep it visible, to remind you to answer or to see faces. But real-world use is different — a mini window is a badge in the corner of your screen. Out of sight, glanced at occasionally, expanded only when needed.

Once you see it that way, resizability stops being a nice-to-have and becomes required. That’s one of the reasons PipNow exists.

If you’ve ever squinted at a shared deck through a fixed-size mini window, or wished it would get out of the way, PipNow gives that back.