I posted the first version of AutoPiP here in November 2024.
Since then I've kept chipping away at it, and v2 is finally ready.
The premise: I wanted truly automatic PiP for multitasking — switch a tab, video
keeps playing in a floating window, no clicking required. Safari is the only browser
that allows triggering PiP without a user gesture, which is what makes this possible
at all.
v2 adds:
- Global on/off toggle in the toolbar (no need to uninstall to pause it)
- Configurable keyboard shortcut (default ⌥P) to manually trigger PiP
- Blacklist / Whitelist mode to control which sites it activates on
Works on YouTube (including PiP on scroll), Netflix, Twitch, Disney+, MAX,
Paramount+, Jellyfin and most generic HTML5 players.
GitHub: https://github.com/vordenken/AutoPiP
Free, GPL-3.0, no telemetry.
Happy to answer questions about the Safari extension API quirks I ran into.
