TetherShot
One hotkey. Any phone. Screenshot on your Mac instantly.
Details
- External ID
- 1243105
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- TetherShot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screenshot tool for mac from iphone
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 520 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 521 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- TetherCam · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Shacam for macOS · hn · 2026-06-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Free, Fast Screenshot App for macOS with One-Click Screenshot Sharing · hn · 2026-08-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- CleanShot 5.0 with Studio Mode · ph · 2026-09-02 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Shotwell · ph · 2026-04-05 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- LongShot · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Orbshot · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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