Beam puts a Mac mini's agent windows on the laptop you use
Beam is a Mac app that takes a window from a Mac mini or Studio and opens it on the Mac in front of you with its own Dock icon and ⌘Tab slot, aimed at builds and AI agents that have to keep running on a different machine.
Image: Beam / Product Hunt
Why it mattersA developer who leaves an agent running on a Mac mini while sitting at a MacBook has one window per agent instead of a screen-share view, which is the shape most desktop workflows already expect.
An agent left running on a Mac mini still has to be checked on from the laptop in the next room, and screen sharing offers a picture of a desktop rather than the window the agent is in. Beam, released by Noats this week and listed on Product Hunt on 18 October, picks a single window from another Mac and opens it on the Mac in front of you with its own Dock icon and a slot in ⌘Tab. The build runs on the Studio, the agents run on the mini, and the keyboard and clipboard reach them from the laptop.
The pitch, read from beam.win, puts the design on three claims the site makes about itself. The window is streamed at the display's exact resolution rather than scaled, so text stays sharp. Keystrokes, clipboard and audio go directly between the two Macs, encrypted, with no transit through Noats's servers. And a window brought over "all the way" leaves the other Mac's screen entirely, with a small note on that machine saying where it went. Those are the vendor's claims about its own product; nothing independent is published yet.
Where it fits
The site names two scenarios the audience will recognise. One is a headless Mac mini or Studio in a closet, whose windows list in Beam even with no display attached, so a build pipeline or a Claude Code session can be reached without hooking up a monitor. The other is a workbench pattern with two Macs on the same desk, where the apps that use the heavier machine's RAM and cores stay there and show up on the one with the better keyboard.
Beam needs Apple silicon on both Macs and macOS Sonoma or later. The same Wi-Fi is enough for a local connection, and Tailscale is listed as the way to reach a Mac in another city. A share link opens one window in any browser, with view-only by default and optional control. The site says the Monthly, Yearly and Lifetime plans keep working for up to 30 days offline, with the Free plan requiring a connection for its daily minutes.
Pricing, as the site lists it
The Free plan is permanent, with a 20-minute daily cap on time spent using another Mac from this one. Hosting (making the Macs you own available) is always free, and so is joining a share link. The subscription is $7 per month on an annual plan at $84 a year, or $12 billed month-to-month, with a 14-day free trial once per person and card. The Lifetime price is $199 once, including every future update. A team plan is $12 per person per month, with a 20 percent per-seat discount from ten seats.
The current build is version 1.0.3, published 2026-10-18 on Product Hunt by Noats Inc. (also at noats.ai). The source is closed and the measurements in the pitch (sharpness, latency, "retina" rendering) have not been checked against a competing product. A developer who already keeps an agent running on a Mac mini, or runs a Claude Code loop on a separate box so the laptop battery survives the day, can trial it in 20 minutes a day without a card.
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