I calculated I spend 8 hours a day at my desk. My watch list hadn't moved in months.

The false choice between productivity and leisure

The problem isn't willpower. It's the binary nature of watching video: your player takes the screen, your workspace disappears, and the moment you alt-tab back to work, the video becomes a distraction you close. Nobody wins. The content piles up, the backlog grows, and you tell yourself 'I'll watch it this weekend' — a promise you've broken 40 weeks in a row. Picture-in-Picture doesn't help either. Browser PiP works for streaming platforms. It does nothing for local files — your own library sitting on your own drive.

So I built BackDrop_

BackDrop_ plays any video file from your PC as a ghost overlay directly on your desktop. Transparent, click-through, adjustable. You see the video through everything — your code editor, your spreadsheet, your browser. Your mouse passes right through it. Your keyboard types through it. You work, and the video plays. Both things happen at the same time, on the same screen, without compromise. Press ESC at any moment and it vanishes. Ctrl+Shift+Space brings it back. It just runs in the background — patient, invisible-when-needed, always there.

What it does

Who it's for

Anyone with a video library they never find time to visit. Remote workers who want background content without losing their desktop. People with a personal collection that deserves to be watched — whatever it contains, whenever they want. If you've ever closed a video to 'focus' and never came back to it, BackDrop_ is for you. One-time payment of €23.99. No subscription, no cloud, no account. Install and go.