taskTru 2.0

taskTru is a Windows utility that lets you make tasks click-through, topmost, transparent and cropped.
Perfect for videos, images, code or anything you want to overlay over your apps. Download the 2.0 here!

Core features

• Click-through - passes mouse input through a selected window
• Always on top - keeps selected windows above normal windows
• Opacity slider - adjusts window transparency
• Crop $^{\color{lightgreen}{\textsf{New!}}}$ - draw a feature-rich, movable, resizable PiP from any window, with auto video detection

Everything above is stackable and can be set for several windows at a time. (I'm working on a demo video!!)

Also new in 2.0

Tip

System tray and tray actions, user settings, automatic refresh, persistent state, global shortcuts,
startup options, user favorites / ignored task lists, auto video detection, a logo, interact mode for crop,
and many niche QoL improvements that you can discover in the releases changelog.

Shortcuts

They apply to the focused window.
Global shortcuts can be disabled / edited in Settings.

Ctrl+Alt+X	Toggle click-through
Ctrl+Alt+T	Toggle always on top
Ctrl+Alt+Up	Increase opacity by 5%
Ctrl+Alt+Down	Decrease opacity by 5%
Ctrl+Alt+C	Crop the foreground window / recrop
Ctrl+Alt+U	Uncrop
Ctrl+Alt+I	Interact mode for cropped window
Ctrl+Alt+R	Restore every managed window
Ctrl+Alt+S	Show taskTru

Requirements

• Windows on x64 or arm64
• Small release executables require the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime (they will give you a download link for your system's version if you don't have it installed)
• -full release executables include the runtime and can start as is
• .NET 10 SDK for development

They talk about it!

• Awesome ecosyste.ms • 🇬🇧 • Link • About 1.0
• Softpedia Article • 🇬🇧 • Link • About 1.0
• User recommendation on Reddit • 🇬🇧 • Link • About 1.0
• PCAstuces Article • 🇫🇷 • Link • About 1.0

Support and dev stuff

Warning

A few apps behave differently under Crop, Interact, or Video detection (Windows exposes every app a little differently). Most I tested work great: if one misbehaves, please open a compatibility issue. What to expect, and what to include, is below.

App compatibility & reporting a problem

What usually works

• Crop works for almost any normal window (it renders a live DWM thumbnail, which Windows provides for nearly everything).
• Interact works for most apps: the cropped app receives real input while its thumbnail stays the visible face.
• Video detection finds players that expose themselves through Windows UI Automation. Chromium browsers (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera) and Firefox web players (YouTube and the like).

Known limits

• Native video players (VLC, MPC-HC, mpv, PotPlayer, Windows Media Player) don't expose a detectable player, so auto video crop won't find them. Draw the crop manually instead, it works fine. Feel free to request something and I'll see what I can do.
• During Interact, an app's own pop-ups / dropdowns can open behind the thumbnail, and you move the crop with the floating handle (its edges are click-through).
• A few apps relayout their content when moved or maximized, which can shift a crop slightly.

Reporting a compatibility issue

A good report makes it reproducible fast. Please include:

• App name + version, and which feature broke (Crop / Interact / Video detection).
• What you expected vs. what happened: a screenshot or short GIF helps enormously for visual glitches.
• Your monitor setup: resolution and scaling % for each monitor (mixed-scaling setups matter a lot).
• Windows version (10 or 11), and whether the app was windowed / maximized / fullscreen.

Open a compatibility issue →

Project Layout

Structure

• src/: application source and project file
• assets/: application icon and logo
• Build.ps1: release tooling

Within src/:

• Configuration/ contains the settings model, keyboard shortcut definitions, and saved window states.
• Cropping/ contains the crop selection overlay, the cropped thumbnail window with interact mode, and video detection.
• Interop/ contains the Win32, DWM, and UI Automation interop layers.
• UI/ contains forms, controls, and theme helpers.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Open an issue to report a bug or request a feature.
• Fork and submit a Pull Request for improvements or new features.

Build

Debug/development build (also opens fine in Visual Studio with .NET 10 tooling):

dotnet build src\taskTru.csproj -c Release

Release executables (x64 + arm64, portable + self-contained, published into dist/):

./Build.ps1

Build intermediates are written to artifacts/. Tested on Windows 10 and 11.