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Kiri

Screenshots, local OCR & screen recording, with care

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Kiri is a free, open-source screenshot app for macOS and Windows, made with care (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) Capture a window or region, add annotations, copy text with local OCR, or record an MP4 or GIF. Keep your captures together in a searchable local library. Screenshots, text recognition, and recording stay on your computer by default. See it in action: https://kiri.yuxino.cn/#demo

PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes Desktop screen capture, local OCR via Tesseract or native OS vision frameworks, and video encoding via FFmpeg are well-supported capabilities readily assembled using Tauri or Electron.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 635 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #519 of 636 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • CaptureOCR｜Offline OCR Screenshot Tool · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • BaseShot · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Native Screen · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Kapshot · ph · 2026-09-25 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Yuzu Shot · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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