FaceBubble
Your face in a bubble over any app. Free, no watermarks.
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FaceBubble records your face in a floating bubble over any app on your iPhone. Record or go live to Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. Completely free - no watermarks, no limits, no subscriptions.
PH · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Video Streaming
- Social media marketing
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Could you build this?
Partial While standard camera and UI features are straightforward, iOS sandbox limitations make rendering a persistent, interactive floating bubble over arbitrary apps and broadcasting screen video complex to implement reliably.
What it would actually take: The app must be built natively in Swift using AVFoundation and ReplayKit Broadcast Upload Extensions, using Picture-in-Picture (AVPictureInPictureController) hacks or custom sample buffer display layers to float the camera over other apps. The primary difficulty lies in working around strict iOS sandboxing to composite the camera feed over system-wide recordings without getting killed by background memory and thermal limits. It requires specialized iOS audio/video framework knowledge and real-time streaming pipeline expertise (RTMP/VideoToolbox).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 695 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 696 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- FlowRec · ph · 2026-11-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Tiny macOS app that adds a facecam bubble to screen recordings · hn · 2026-03-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Reel Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Bubbly · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Countdown Widget · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Not yet. · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Safe Zone Checker · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FloatTimer+ · ph · 2026-10-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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