Perhaps you’ll like Screegle then because it overlays your webcam on what you share as ONE stream and you can share one or several windows without revealing your entire desktop https://www.appblit.com/screegle

> A screenshare takes over the layout This is exactly what I'm trying to avoid :-)

When a screen share takes over, a conversation turns into a broadcast, which isn't always what you want.

There will always be scenarios where the improved resolution of a screen sharing codec will be necessary (and nothing is stopping you!), but I find a lot of the time there's a big white screen with a bit of branding and one bullet point on screen, and I can't see the face of the person who is talking.

I was on a group call recently where the speaker presented in this way for half an hour as a tiny thumbnail and I found it quite painful, thinking "I've been listening to this person for ages but I wouldn't recognise them in real life".

Sure enough, a couple of weeks later I had an awkward conversation where this exact person kinda recognised me but I didn't recognise her, so I felt pretty vindicated .

If we avoid the overhead of screen shares, the conversation flows a lot better, and everybody can be seen without the host having to turn anything off. And don't forget, if somebody's on a phone screen then they can't see all the detail anyway. This is why I prefer zooming in on important content than sharing my whole screen (I zoom in on my desktop using a pinch gesture in Video Pencil on my iPad and it feels magical).

I know it a balance between image quality and framerate, and presentation will benefit from a sharp image (nobody like to read blurred text) but presenting a screen that contains some moving elements or even a video will often be a poor experience. I wish there was a way to select between image quality and framerate when presenting sometimes, but in the meantime I use the OBS virtual camera to "present" something as my camera feed so that I broadcast a video at a decent framerate.