RetroMac
Turn your Mac into a time machine.
Details
- External ID
- 1181332
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- RetroMac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- June 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 219
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.39663461538461536
- Tags
- Funny, Productivity, User Experience, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
RetroMac wraps your everyday macOS in the look and feel of classic computers: authentic CRT shaders over your whole screen, themed docks and desktops (Mac OS 9, Windows XP/98, BeOS, Amiga…), retro widgets and games, and a virtual webcam that pipes the CRT look into Zoom, Meet or Teams. Open source, free to use with an optional one-time upgrade for extra presets and webcam support.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac system backup and recovery
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and theme presets can be scaffolded easily, but rendering whole-screen live shaders, multi-display rendering, and a virtual webcam driver requires low-level macOS graphics programming.
What it would actually take: The core implementation requires native Swift/Objective-C interfacing with Apple's Metal framework, CoreGraphics, and ScreenCaptureKit for high-performance, low-latency screen rendering without degrading system performance. The virtual webcam feature requires a CoreMediaIO DAL plugin or Camera Extension driver, requiring Apple developer entitlements and system-level driver expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 157 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 158 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 228 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wokyintosh · ph · 2026-09-12 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- NostalgiApp · hn · 2026-05-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Retro Chip Vault · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- New Parts for Old Computers · hn · 2026-08-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Xray Mac · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Flovio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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