Airtime: the blog

Everyone hates screensharing. We did something about it.

Christine Foote

Nov 19, 2025

We all know the ritual. You pull up the deck, drag your meeting window onto the right monitor, close five tabs you really hope no one saw, and then, with a nervous breath, you say the words heard in every timezone:

“Uh… can you see my screen?”

Screensharing is awkward. It’s fragile. It’s one-directional. One person controls the flow and everyone else just… watches. If they get lost? Too bad. If they want to go back? Ask nicely. If you need someone else to present? Pass the baton and pray for the resolution gods to show mercy.

It doesn’t have to be like this. So we built Stacks.

What is Stacks?

Stacks is the collaborative alternative to screensharing. Instead of showing your screen to everyone, you create a shared canvas where you and your team can look at things together.

• Drag in images, PDFs, or videos
• Share a window, screen, or browser tab
• Import directly from Google Drive

You’ll use Stacks right alongside your meeting app, in your browser on mobile or desktop. It’s your visual notebook for the conversation: a place to collect everything that matters—and review it together.

The Big Difference: Shared Presence

With screensharing, only the presenter knows where the conversation is. With Stacks, everyone does.

You can see where people are focusing. You can tell who’s following along and who’s somewhere else entirely. There’s a sense of shared attention, instead of one person driving and everyone else watching. Meetings feel less like broadcasts and more like conversations.

Real Collaboration, Not Just Observation

Anyone can jump back to a previous slide. No more “Can you go back to slide 6?” interruptions.
Anyone can add files or content. No screen-permission dance. No awkward handoffs.
Everyone can zoom into details. No more tiny-text-on-a-giant-spreadsheet suffering.

And When the Meeting Ends? The Stack Lives On.

Everything you shared stays collected and accessible. No more “Can you send that deck?” follow-up messages. Just revisit the Stack, it’s all there, organized and already shared.

So the next time your finger drifts toward “Share Screen”… Stop. Start a Stack instead.