Orbshot
Beautiful screenshots. Screen recordings you can re-edit.
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Orbshot is a native Mac app that turns captures into ready-to-share visuals. Grab an area, window, or full screen; add annotations, backgrounds, and clean framing. Record demos with auto-zoom, a smooth pointer, click effects, and keystroke badges. Keep the project to adjust those effects and export again later. Free to start, with no card, time limit, or watermark. Screenshot and video processing stays on your Mac.
PH · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Photo & Video
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Could you build this?
Partial A native macOS app that handles screen capture, virtual event hooks (keystrokes, mouse smoothing), post-capture vector re-editing, and hardware-accelerated video rendering requires deep macOS system APIs.
What it would actually take: The app must be written in Swift/Objective-C leveraging macOS APIs like ScreenCaptureKit, CoreGraphics event taps for capturing cursor and keyboard events, and AVFoundation/Metal for compositing and smooth 60fps rendering. Enabling non-destructive post-recording re-edits means storing raw event telemetry (timestamps, screen coordinates) alongside the video stream and re-synthesizing motion and zoom paths dynamically. This requires specialized low-level Apple desktop engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 998 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #333 of 999 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- BothShot · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Daisyshot · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- CleanShot 5.0 with Studio Mode · ph · 2026-09-02 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Shotbolt · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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