Lens
Mac screen recorder that adds the zoom for you
Details
- External ID
- 1253930
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Portrait Lens AI
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Video
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Record your screen and Lens adds automatic zoom, smooth cursor movement and on-device captions. Make product demos and tutorials people can follow. Everything is edited on your Mac. Paid plans add shareable links. 7-day free trial, no account or card.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac screen recorder with automatic zoom
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While screen recording and basic UI can be built quickly, smooth automatic zooming based on cursor activity, on-device Whisper captioning, and AVFoundation video rendering on macOS require lower-level systems and graphics expertise.
What it would actually take: Built as a native macOS app using Swift, ScreenCaptureKit, and AVFoundation. The hard part is algorithmic heuristics for tracking mouse interactions and viewport zoom/pan smoothing without motion sickness, combined with integrated local ML (CoreML Whisper). A solo developer needs solid macOS native graphics pipeline and CoreMedia experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 446 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #260 of 447 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Lumiko · ph · 2026-09-19 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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