OptiTide Meet for Windows
The same meetings, without a browser tab in the way.
What the app adds
- Share a screen with its sound Play a video in a meeting and the room actually hears it. In a browser on Windows you only get sound when you share a single tab.
- Mute and unmute from anywhere Ctrl+Shift+A works while you are in another program. Hold Ctrl+Space to talk without unmuting properly.
- Video that does not freeze when you look away Browsers throttle a tab that is behind another window. The app doesn't, so nobody's picture stalls while you read your notes.
- Keep the window on top Float the meeting over whatever you are working on — with the controls and the chat, not just a thumbnail.
- Meeting links open straight in the app Your screen stays awake, and the tray icon tells you whether you are muted.
Installing it
Windows will warn you the first time. The app is not signed with a commercial certificate yet, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway. That warning is about the certificate, not about anything the installer does.
It installs for you alone and needs no administrator password.
Prefer not to install?
The portable build runs from the file itself and writes nothing to Program Files: OptiTide-Meet-1.0.2-portable.exe.
Checking what you downloaded
SHA-256, which you can confirm with
Get-FileHash <file> in PowerShell:
Setup — 1d1bd4daa0a6825d4d051ae4885793022ee40e450977f0704492559ad3e8b652
Portable — a1a6bd78f1455dff688778b3aa2053b59395cc8acb0295c3307c843704ced8ce