Get the most out of Curtains
Set up Curtains, share your windows in any meeting app, and find out what every control does.
Start here
Install Curtains, allow Screen Recording and share your first set of windows.
- Quickstart Download Curtains, allow Screen Recording, pick your windows and share them in your meeting as one window.
- Install and permissions Pick the download for your Mac's chip, install Curtains on macOS 13 or later, allow Screen Recording, and when Curtains asks for Accessibility.
- Your first share A walk through one meeting: set up a draft, go Live, share Curtains Presenter, and end when you're done.
Sharing
Studio, drafts, going Live and sharing Curtains Presenter in your meeting app.
- Studio tour The parts of Curtains Studio: the rail, Sources, the stage and its preview, and the Layout, Tools, Themes and Combos panels.
- Drafts and Go Live Picking windows starts a draft only you can see. Arrange it, then Go Live to open Curtains Presenter.
- Sharing in your meeting app How to share the Curtains Presenter window in Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, a Slack huddle and other meeting apps.
- Live, Paused and End What viewers see while you're Live or Paused, the holding card, and how End closes Curtains Presenter.
- Floating remote and menu bar Control a session while Studio is behind your meeting: the floating remote and the Curtains menu bar menu.
Layouts and windows
Arrange the shared windows, focus one, and size the real windows to fit.
- Layouts Grid, Focus, Follow and Free: how each one arranges your shared windows, and how to switch between them.
- Focus Make one window the big one, then Unfocus to get your layout back.
- Rearrange windows Drag windows on the preview, reorder them in the Order list, or move them with the keyboard.
- Fit and resize windows Make real windows match their space on the canvas with Fit to cell, Sharpest, Fit all windows and automatic fitting.
- Bring to front Jump to the real app behind a shared window without changing your canvas.
Presenting tools
Draw, blur, keep private apps out of the list, save combos and pick a theme.
- Draw on your windows Point things out with the pen, highlighter, arrow and laser, on the Studio preview or right on your real windows.
- Blur and hide Hide part of a window, a whole window, or add a window hidden, so private things never reach viewers.
- Apps in Sources Sources lists work apps by default. Everything else waits in Hidden, and you choose what shows.
- Combos Save a set of windows with their layout and start the same share in one click.
- Themes and custom backgrounds Pick the canvas behind your windows. Presets are free; Pro adds your own colors, gradients, background images and overlays.
Calls and privacy
How Curtains notices a call, stays out of screenshots, and what it sends.
- Call detection How Curtains notices you're on a call, and opens Curtains Presenter so it's ready in your meeting app's share list.
- Screenshots and screen sharing When Curtains hides its own windows from screen sharing and screenshots, and how to change it.
- Usage stats and privacy What Curtains sends and never sends, and how to turn anonymous usage stats on or off.
Plans and account
Free, Pro, Lifetime and Pro for teams, activating devices and billing.
- Plans What Free, Pro, Lifetime and Pro for teams include, and what the trial gives you.
- Activate a device Activate Curtains on a Mac at curtains.app/activate after you buy.
- Devices How many devices a plan covers, and how to move Curtains to a new one.
- Billing and renewals How yearly Pro, Lifetime and refunds work, how to renew, and how to cancel.
- Teams Pro for teams: buying seats and adding people.
Reference
Every shortcut and setting, fixes for common problems, and the FAQ.
- Keyboard shortcuts Every Curtains shortcut, and how to change them.
- Settings Every setting in Curtains, section by section, with its default.
- Troubleshooting Fixes for common problems: missing windows, a black window, permissions and meeting apps.
- FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask most about Curtains.