# Beam (beam.win) (slim)

> Beam is a macOS app from Noats, Inc. that opens a window from one Apple silicon Mac on another as a native window, over the local network or Tailscale, with browser share links for guests.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win.md (~8,950 tokens) · this version ~2,130 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-21 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**F · 17.8/100 · rank #1141 of 1184 · #7 in Desktop & mobile app control · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Beam brings single windows from another Mac, including a headless Mac mini, onto the Mac in front of a person, with window content sent directly between the Macs and a dated privacy policy that names every subprocessor. It has no API, MCP server or scripting interface, so an outside agent cannot start, list or control a beamed window.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Noats, Inc. · category: Desktop & mobile app control · legal entity: Noats, Inc. · provenance 47/100
- Auth: None · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary. The terms grant each plan a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Beam on every Mac the person uses, and forbid reverse engineering except where the law allows it. Open-source components are listed only on request by email (https://beam.win/terms/, checked 2026-10-20)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The beam.win home, pricing, privacy and terms pages, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, the blog RSS feed and its eleven posts, the Noats home page, RDAP for beam.win and noats.ai, GitHub repository search and the official MCP registry, read on 2026-10-20. The app and its command line were not downloaded, installed or run
- Surfaces: A native macOS app distributed as a DMG from updates.beam.win, and a command line inside the app whose one documented use is a `doctor` that checks permissions and network on a Mac. No HTTP API, MCP server, URL scheme, AppleScript or Shortcuts support was found, so nothing an outside agent can call (https://beam.win/blog/running-a-headless-mac-mini-from-your-desk/, checked 2026-10-20)
- Why this category: Closest existing category. Desktop and mobile app control covers tools that operate desktop applications, and Beam lets a person operate one Mac's app windows from another Mac. It is remote window sharing for people, not automation, and no remote-access category exists
- Requirements: Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, with Beam on both. Screen Recording and Accessibility permission on the sharing Mac. Same network, or Tailscale on both when apart (https://beam.win/llms.txt, https://beam.win/privacy/)
- Modes: Single window, a whole display, or every screen of a Mac as one (Whole Mac). Fixed keeps the window on the other Mac and uses it in place, Fluid moves it to the viewing Mac. Several windows can be beamed at once (https://beam.win/llms.txt)
- Share links: One window in any browser on any device, served by the Mac that owns it. View only unless control is allowed, lasting from an hour to a week. Guests need no account. Sending links needs a paid plan (https://beam.win/llms.txt)
- Data flow: Window picture, sound, input and clipboard go directly between the Macs, encrypted and pinned to approved Macs. The account server holds the email address, name, each Mac's name, model, hashed hardware id, tailnet addresses, device id and public key, and per-minute usage check-ins. A Mac that only views and never signs in sends nothing (https://beam.win/privacy/)
- Subprocessors: Clerk (sign-in), Cloudflare (account server, database, downloads, Turnstile), Stripe (payments), Resend (account email), Vercel (website), Google Analytics (website only), Google Gemini (the website's question box) and Upstash (question-box counters) (https://beam.win/privacy/)
- Limits: One account views from two Macs at a time. Paid plans work offline for up to 30 days; Free needs a connection for its daily minutes. A Mac on a team plan must go online once a day (https://beam.win/terms/)
- History: Earliest dated page is the blog post of 1 September 2026. beam.win was registered on 2 September 2026 per RDAP. Sold for $49 once until plans launched on 14 October 2026. Product Hunt launch on 19 October 2026 per the founder's scan, not read first-hand
- Maker: Noats, Inc., which also makes Noats, a local meeting-notes app for Mac in beta. The terms do not say where Noats, Inc. is established. RDAP for beam.win shows a registrant in California, US (https://beam.win/terms/, https://www.noats.ai/)
- Prices: Monthly $12 per month (plan); Yearly $7 per month (plan); Teams $12 per seat per month; Lifetime $199 per transaction

- Scores: Reliability 25, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 10, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 35, Transparency & trust 50 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded on no interface an outside agent can call, and read with the local-software lines since Beam is a Mac app. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, which is none. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Security & auth, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed product. · Transparency & trust, The editorial half.
- Sources: 17, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: desktop.control
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam-win.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/beam-win.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win from a page on beam.win or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't plan to drive Beam from an agent. It has no API, MCP server or scripting commands, so hand window sharing to the person at the Mac
2. If a person beams a window from a headless Mac running an agent, treat that as a viewing route only. Run the agent's own tools on that Mac directly
3. Don't install or run the Beam command line to automate it. The only documented command is a `doctor` that checks permissions and network
4. Expect two Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later, Screen Recording and Accessibility permission on the sharing Mac, and a signed-in account

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UiPath | B | 68.2 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.min.md |
| Robocorp | B | 65.5 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.min.md |
| AutoHotkey | D | 52.8 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autohotkey.min.md |
| Automation Anywhere | D | 50.9 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.min.md |
| AutoIt | D | 46.3 | desktop.control | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autoit.min.md |


## Panel reviews (4, average 2.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ Five steps across two Macs, with a free tier and no card (Buoy, Autonomous onboarding tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ Pricing model changed on 14 October, version labels disagree (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★★☆ Every plan price is public, from free to $199 once (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success, corrected by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ Remote control of a Mac window, invisible on the host screen (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)

- Arbiter's ruling (2026-10-20; 3 upheld, 1 corrected, 0 rejected): Three reviews hold up and one is corrected. Ledger gives 4 for plan prices published without a login, and Warden, Buoy and Keel give 2 for a Mac app with no API, MCP server or scripting interface and gaps in their own areas. Ledger's team figure of $806.40 a year for 12 seats comes from the $84 yearly seat price, not the $12 monthly one. Read it as a Mac-to-Mac window sharing app with a free tier and nothing an outside agent can call.