Piik

Share the good stuff.
Private screen sharing for you and up to 20 friends.

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Piik is a free, open-source screen sharing tool for private live streams with friends: games, movie nights, drawings and photos. Choose what to share and send an invitation. Your friends watch in their browsers. You can also self-host Piik on your own server.

A little room · Show / hide animation

Features · Get started · Self-hosting · Contributing

Features

• Watch without installing. Friends join by invitation in a desktop or mobile browser.
• Share from Piik App or an existing Piik site. Choose a screen, window, browser tab or camera; available sources and audio depend on the platform.
• Direct connections first. Media travels between participants where possible (P2P). A self-hosted server can provide automatic media forwarding (SFU) as a fallback.
• Rooms you control. Invitations, room codes and optional room passwords, for one host and up to 20 viewers.
• Talk and chat together. Join room voice, send messages and reactions, or enable on-screen chat.
• Hand control to friends. Share an App window or screen and approve remote control. Allow friends to play together with shared keyboard/mouse or supported gamepads; take control back at any time. Setup guide.
• Flexible viewing. Light and dark themes, playback controls, picture-in-picture and a connection topology view.
• One program to host a site. Web UI, room management and optional media forwarding are packaged together.

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Get started

To watch: open the invitation your friend sends you. Select Play if the picture does not start automatically.

To share: download Piik App to get started. To share without installing, you can also create a room in the online version.

Start here	What you need to do
Use Piik online	Share from a desktop browser, or choose Camera on a phone with browser camera support.
Download Piik App	Extract and open the App, choose Public invite, then Open Piik to create a temporary room.

1. Select Start sharing, then choose the picture and audio to share.
2. Select Copy invite link and send it to your friends. Keep the sharing tab open.

Open Interact → Voice to talk together, with or without picture sharing. The Host opens voice; everyone joins to listen and chooses when to turn on their microphone.

Piik follows your system language: Chinese or English, with English as the fallback. Use 中 / EN / ✦ in the header to switch language or try the visual mode. The App can create a local room or temporary public invitation, and stays available to supply capture for an approved site. Keep it running while sharing.

Illustrated getting started → · Troubleshooting →

Choose a download beginning with piik-app. The guide covers installation, source selection and invitations.

Browser capture requires HTTPS or localhost. The App's temporary public link and the online version use P2P and need a usable UDP connection between participants. For campus networks, failed media connections or virtual LANs, see network checks and connection options.

Self-hosting

Deploy Piik Server to run a site for your group.

Piik Server is a standalone binary with the web interface built in. Download the Server package for Linux x64 (piik-<revision>-runtime.tar.gz) or ARM64 (piik-<revision>-linux-arm64-runtime.tar.gz), extract it, and run:

./piik-server

Windows x64 uses piik-<revision>-windows-amd64-runtime.zip; extract it and run ./piik-server.exe in PowerShell. The same configuration applies.

Open http://localhost:8787 to try it locally. For a public site, configure your domain, HTTPS reverse proxy and STUN address. Room data is stored in SQLite. For containers, use the Docker Compose setup.

Deploy your own site → · Configuration · Run from source

Contributing

Bug reports, translations, documentation improvements and pull requests are welcome. See ways to contribute or help translate Piik. Use the repository layout to find your way around.

License

Piik-owned code is MIT licensed. Dependencies retain their own licenses and notices.

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