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Work · September 13, 2021

Mirror Magnet

Live camera image that stays on top of everything else

Mirror Magnet launched on September 13, 2021 with 187 votes, #150 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Mirror Magnet puts a live camera image on your Mac’s desktop and stays on top of everything else. If you’re sharing your screen on a regular basis and want to make your presentations or recordings more personal — this is for you.

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I oversee and instruct a computer lab for K-3 students. I've been trying to teach the foundation of touch typing, and with kids this young, it really helps if you have visual aids. I use a Brio webcam pointed down at my keyboard, and use OBS along with a wide assortment of apps as well as my iPad so that I can annotate what I see on my display. Then I just cast a full screen preview onto a large TV for the students to see. Mirror magnet makes it really easy to overlay my keyboard view and reduces the number of sources in OBS since it can fade away the keyboard when I need to show a portion of my screen, which before I would be limited to reducing my screen stream size to accomodate my…from apps.apple.com

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