Description
You want to show a friend the round you just played, or watch a film together with three other people. Normally that means a meeting app that turns the picture into mosaic, a chat platform that makes everyone register first, or an evening spent standing up your own server. Piik cuts it down to one step: pick what to share, send the invite link, and they watch in a browser — nothing to install, no account to create.
Media goes peer to peer by default rather than through a relay, which is why latency and picture quality hold up. One host carries up to twenty viewers, rooms have codes and optional passwords, and nobody gets in without the link. MIT licensed, with a server that is a single binary if you want to run your own.
Nothing to install for viewers: open the invitation in a desktop or mobile browser and watch. No client, no sign-up, no friend request.
Three ways to share: download Piik App to capture a whole screen, a single window or a browser tab; skip installing and open a room in the online version; or connect to a site a friend or administrator already runs.
Direct connections first: media travels between participants wherever possible, and a self-hosted server can enable SFU forwarding as a fallback for restrictive networks.
Rooms you control: invite links, four-digit room codes and optional room passwords, sized for one host and up to twenty viewers.
Viewing comfort: light and dark themes, playback controls, picture-in-picture, and a connection topology view that shows which route each participant's stream is actually taking.
One binary to host a site: the web UI, room management and media forwarding ship together — extract, run, and the site is up, with room data in SQLite and a Docker Compose setup available.
Bilingual: the interface follows the system language between Chinese and English, switchable from the header, alongside an extra visual mode.
Media goes peer to peer by default rather than through a relay, which is why latency and picture quality hold up. One host carries up to twenty viewers, rooms have codes and optional passwords, and nobody gets in without the link. MIT licensed, with a server that is a single binary if you want to run your own.
Features
Nothing to install for viewers: open the invitation in a desktop or mobile browser and watch. No client, no sign-up, no friend request.
Three ways to share: download Piik App to capture a whole screen, a single window or a browser tab; skip installing and open a room in the online version; or connect to a site a friend or administrator already runs.
Direct connections first: media travels between participants wherever possible, and a self-hosted server can enable SFU forwarding as a fallback for restrictive networks.
Rooms you control: invite links, four-digit room codes and optional room passwords, sized for one host and up to twenty viewers.
Viewing comfort: light and dark themes, playback controls, picture-in-picture, and a connection topology view that shows which route each participant's stream is actually taking.
One binary to host a site: the web UI, room management and media forwarding ship together — extract, run, and the site is up, with room data in SQLite and a Docker Compose setup available.
Bilingual: the interface follows the system language between Chinese and English, switchable from the header, alongside an extra visual mode.
