Keep your agents and builds running on a Mac mini or Studio. Beam brings their Terminal, browser and other app windows onto the Mac in front of you, each as its own window with a Dock icon and ⌘Tab presence. Encrypted between your Macs. Free to try.
My setup has gotten a little weird. I've got Macs running agents and local models, with work continuing even when nobody's sitting in front of them.
Sometimes I just want to check a Terminal, open a browser, or use an app on one of those machines. Getting there usually means opening Screen Sharing and navigating a whole second desktop.
Sam and I have been working on Beam to make this easier.
With Beam, you pick a window on another Mac and it opens alongside the apps on the Mac you're using. It gets its own Dock icon and a place in ⌘Tab. You can type into it and resize it like a normal window. You can also move files between Macs and hear the app's audio. The app itself keeps running on its original machine.
When one window isn't enough, Beam lets you open an entire screen or the whole Mac.
I'm especially excited about using Beam with headless Mac minis and Studios. They can keep running agents and other work while I use their apps from whichever Mac I'm sitting in front of.
Beam works on Apple silicon Macs running Sonoma or later. You can connect over your local network or through Tailscale, with encrypted connections directly between Macs.
It's available now and free to try for 20 minutes every day. Download it at Beam.win.
A few weeks ago I asked people on X to show me their weird multi-Mac setups. The thread got over 100 replies, and I've loved seeing what everyone has built.
One thing I've become fascinated by is the Mac nobody sits in front of.
If you have one, what do you still need to open Screen Sharing for?
As one of the early adopters of Beam, I really like the ability to bring in a single app/window from other machines on my local network to get things done. It works really well and keeps distractions to a minimum. Congrats @hnshah and team on the launch.
Finally i can build my side projects while i’m at work haha
Maybe this is a dumb que but does this work with multiple MacBook Pros?
I’ve been using this to access my mac minis from my MacBook on and off network for the last 2 months.
Was skeptical, and then it became my daily driver over Apple’s native screen share.
Feels more responsive, higher resolution, reliable and extremely easier to back in and out of.
So much potential to eliminate the barrier felt moving between devices on one screen. Killer job guys
I beta tested this thing for nearly a month. Incredibly useful and should be an instant purchase for anyone managing 2 or more Macs
Automatic size adjustment is very convenient.
Great product - congratulations on the launch!
Really cool! would it work with Davinci on a headless mac studio? A friend of mine recently started using claude with davinci on a dedicated mac studio. For cutting movies etc. As Davinci's MCP integration became really good recently. Do you think he could benefit from this?
Congrats Hiten and Sam on the launch. Running agents on a headless Mac mini is exactly where Screen Sharing gets clunky, so getting one window into Cmd-Tab makes a lot of sense. Curious how it handles an app on the mini that pops a modal or opens a new window mid-task: does that new window beam over automatically, or do I go back to the picker for it?
This is interesting. I've just bought a fully specced MacBook Pro to run a local agent, and given what it cost I'm nervous about carrying it around. If Beam is as slick as it looks, it could stay safely at home doing the work while I use it from another Mac. What's the latency like over Tailscale, and how much bandwidth does it need?
Does it stay smooth with things like Terminal, browser and other apps all open together?
Congrats @hnshah & team :)
This looks absolutely amazing. Love the website. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Congrats @hnshah and @samasante. A single window with its own Dock icon and ⌘Tab spot is the right unit; a whole second desktop was always too much just to glance at a terminal. To your question: for me it's the browser an agent left open mid-task. That's the one I still open Screen Sharing for.
Pulling a single window from a headless Mac mini into my own Dock and Cmd Tab is the part I have wanted for ages, because checking on an agent run should not cost me a whole second desktop.
It seems good but I have a few questions that i could find answers, for example will it keep running if one of the the mac sleeps or have its internet disconnected and will it automatically resume from where the same state it got disconnected @hnshah?
Would be cool to see with the growing capabilities of iphones whether you can make it work to control your mac via the phone.
Maybe ios is quite limiting but often times I need to use my mac for something but can only carry my phone because I’m traveling. All other solutions are pretty bad at the moment.
What distinguishes Beam from screen sharing or Remote Desktop? Is it streaming individual windows rather than the whole desktop? Btw, Congratulations @hnshah and @samasante 🎊🚀
This seems quite convenient. I have one question though: when someone shares their screen and we take control, there's a bit of lag when interacting with their screen. Will that lag still exist when we try screen sharing through Beam?
About Beam.win on Product Hunt
“Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another”
Beam.win launched on Product Hunt on October 19th, 2026 and earned 265 upvotes and 42 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Keep your agents and builds running on a Mac mini or Studio. Beam brings their Terminal, browser and other app windows onto the Mac in front of you, each as its own window with a Dock icon and ⌘Tab presence. Encrypted between your Macs. Free to try.
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Hiten Shah
Hey Product Hunt, Hiten here.
My setup has gotten a little weird. I've got Macs running agents and local models, with work continuing even when nobody's sitting in front of them.
Sometimes I just want to check a Terminal, open a browser, or use an app on one of those machines. Getting there usually means opening Screen Sharing and navigating a whole second desktop.
Sam and I have been working on Beam to make this easier.
With Beam, you pick a window on another Mac and it opens alongside the apps on the Mac you're using. It gets its own Dock icon and a place in ⌘Tab. You can type into it and resize it like a normal window. You can also move files between Macs and hear the app's audio. The app itself keeps running on its original machine.
When one window isn't enough, Beam lets you open an entire screen or the whole Mac.
I'm especially excited about using Beam with headless Mac minis and Studios. They can keep running agents and other work while I use their apps from whichever Mac I'm sitting in front of.
Beam works on Apple silicon Macs running Sonoma or later. You can connect over your local network or through Tailscale, with encrypted connections directly between Macs.
It's available now and free to try for 20 minutes every day. Download it at Beam.win.
A few weeks ago I asked people on X to show me their weird multi-Mac setups. The thread got over 100 replies, and I've loved seeing what everyone has built.
One thing I've become fascinated by is the Mac nobody sits in front of.
If you have one, what do you still need to open Screen Sharing for?