Overview: A native macOS alternative to EVE-O Preview (v0.4.0-alpha)

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Latest Version:
v0.4.0-alpha

Updates and Support:
Overview Discord Server

What is Overview?

  • YouTube Demo Video
  • A native macOS app for creating floating previews of your EVE clients (or any other windows)
  • Designed for multi-boxing: monitor multiple clients and instantly switch between them
  • Built natively for macOS, no Wine or other workarounds needed

Current Status:

  • Alpha status
  • Actively developing new features, with hotkey support first on my list
  • Performance is suboptimal
  • Not yet at feature parity with EVE-O Preview, but getting there!

System Requirements:

  • macOS Sonoma (macOS 14) or later
  • Apple Silicon Mac

Try it Out:

If you’re interested in trying it out or following the development, check out the GitHub repo. I’m always looking for feedback and feature requests!

Acknowledgments:

A huge thank you to all the creators and maintainers of EVE-O Preview. Your work has been the inspiration for Overview and has greatly benefited the EVE community. A full list of contributors can be found on the GitHub readme.

To the current EVE-O Preview team: You have my full support in your efforts to bring EVE-O Preview to macOS. The EVE community can only benefit from having multiple options available. I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

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I have just released a new update (v0.3.1-alpha) with some much requested features!

  • Overview now works with Fixed Window full-screen windows for Eve
  • Added optional overlays for window title (character name) and a border around the active window (toggles to enable these are in settings)

Please report any bugs here or on Github and I’ll get them fixed as soon as I can Release v0.3.1-alpha · williamcpierce/Overview · GitHub

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Dang - I was really excited to try this out - but no support below MacOS 14.x. Good luck in any event!

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Thanks for letting me know, I’m sorry to hear this is blocking for you!

I would ideally like to have compatibility back to macOS 12.3 (the minimum requirement for the core API I use), and if there are more people who report this same issue I may bump addressing this up in priority, but I can’t promise anything. My personal devices are all on macOS 15 so it’s hard to really test compatibility myself.

I have some open issues on the GitHub for this, and any updates/progress I make will be posted there if you want to follow along:

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Yeah, sorry - my system is kind of EOL at this point (BigSur is the most I can run on it).