Flexible grid layouts
1 to 16 panels with a full layout system for every count — equal grids, sidebar arrangements with a dominant panel, or bottom strips. Switch layouts anytime without losing what's loaded.
Free & open source · macOS · Windows · Linux
Watch everything
Equal — Side by Side
Watch everything
at once.
WatchWall is a desktop app that puts up to 16 live web views in one clean, non-overlapping grid. Every panel is a full browser — so you can monitor streams, news, radar, and dashboards without juggling a dozen windows.
Equal — Side by Side
Add boxes and the grid rebuilds itself — no window juggling.
Features
Built for watching a lot at once
Everything you need to turn one monitor into a wall of live views.
Smart audio routing
Only one panel plays audio at a time. Highlight a panel to unmute it and mute the rest — so you never fight for sound. Pin audio on as many panels as you like with per-panel overrides.
Per-panel menu
Hover any panel for a quick-access menu: go to a URL, highlight for audio, toggle a persistent audio override, or close it — while every other panel keeps playing uninterrupted.
Any site, not just video
Each panel is a real browser. Load any streaming service, video platform, or website — pull up a live radar, a sports scoreboard, or a dashboard right alongside your streams.
Primary-slot swapping
In sidebar and bottom layouts, highlighting a panel promotes it to the large primary slot, swapping with whatever was there. Page state, scroll, and playback all carry over untouched.
Session persistence
WatchWall remembers your session. On the next launch, restore exactly where you left off — layout, panel count, every loaded URL, audio states, and window size. Autosaves on every change.
Customizable
Tune it to your workflow: enable or disable keyboard shortcuts, change the highlighted-panel indicator color, and edit the quick-launch sites offered when you open a new panel.
Numbered overlays & hotkeys
Toggle numbered badges over every panel to keep track of what's where, then jump straight to any panel with number keys. Overlays never block interaction with the page underneath.
Use cases
One wall, every stream
WatchWall was built to solve the never-ending search for a good way to watch many streams at once.
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Multiple sporting events
Keep every game on the wall at once and snap audio to whichever one heats up.
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Breaking news coverage
Watch several networks side by side and compare coverage as a story develops.
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Severe weather live-streams
Run storm chasers next to a live radar dashboard and local news at the same time.
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Traffic cameras
Monitor a row of live traffic cams to watch conditions across a whole route.
Download
Get WatchWall
Free and open source. Pick your platform — builds are published on GitHub Releases.
macOS: opening WatchWall the first time
WatchWall is not signed with an Apple Developer certificate (I don't have a paid Apple license). Because of that, macOS Gatekeeper adds a quarantine flag to anything you download and may say the app is "damaged" or from an "unidentified developer." This is expected for unsigned apps — not a sign anything is actually wrong. You only need to clear the flag once.
Recommended
Drag WatchWall into your Applications folder, then run this in Terminal to remove the quarantine flag:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WatchWall.app
After running it, just double-click WatchWall like any other app.
No Terminal?
You can also right-click (or Control-click) the app → Open, then confirm Open in the dialog. If macOS still refuses, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to WatchWall.