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Capso

Free open-source screenshot & screen recorder for Mac

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Capso is a free, open-source screenshot and screen recording app for Mac (Apple Silicon), built entirely in Swift. ✨ Features: • Screenshot (area, window, fullscreen) • Screen recording • Annotation tools • OCR (text from images) • Image beautification Think CleanShot X or Cap — but completely free and open source. No subscriptions, no paywalls, no telemetry. Just a clean, native Mac app that does everything you need.

PH · launched Apr 11, 2026 · 268 upvotes (top 45%) · 1 view

Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • GitHub
  • Apple

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Could you build this?

Yes Standard macOS APIs like ScreenCaptureKit, Apple Vision framework (for OCR), and SwiftUI provide all the building blocks to assemble a screenshot, screen recorder, and annotation tool.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 878 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #387 of 879 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.

  • BaseShot · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • loupe · github · 2026-10-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Native Screen · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Daisyshot · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Take One · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Capptivo · ph · 2026-08-02 · 329 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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