TetherShot
One hotkey. Any phone. Screenshot on your Mac instantly.
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Every phone screenshot on Mac is a workaround — until now. TetherShot: native macOS app. Connect iPhone or Android over USB/Wi‑Fi, hit ⌘⇧7, frame saved to folder + clipboard. No account. No upload. No AirPlay hacks. Why bookmark it: • iPhone USB + Wi‑Fi + Android ADB in one app • Pixel-perfect — actual device frame, not a mirror • Menu bar + global hotkey from any app • 100% local. Zero telemetry. MIT open source • Homebrew, signed DMG, or npm For devs and creators who screenshot phones daily.
PH · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and hotkey daemon are straightforward, but handling cross-platform physical device protocols (Apple usbmuxd/libimobiledevice/AirPlay protocols alongside Android ADB bridge) requires deep OS-level device communication code.
What it would actually take: The app would be built with Swift/AppKit for the macOS UI and global hotkey listener. The core challenge involves integrating native C libraries or daemons to bridge both mobile ecosystems: libimobiledevice/usbmuxd for wired/wireless iOS frame capture, and a bundled ADB binary or libusb ADB protocol implementation for Android. A developer needs solid systems-level knowledge of USB multiplexing and device protocols on macOS.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #204 of 1234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tetherly · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Beaming · ph · 2026-11-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- TetherCam · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Shotbolt · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Phone Mirror · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MirrorAct · github · 2026-10-08 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Capture · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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