CatEye Screen Recorder
Free, watermark-free screen recording for Windows
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Details
- External ID
- 1265519
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Screen Recorder
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3309652131308182
- Tags
- Windows, Open Source, GitHub, Video
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A free Windows recorder with no watermark, low resource use and quick setup. Download URL: https://github.com/greatworks/CatEyeScreenRecorder/releases CatEye Screen Recorder is a free, lightweight Windows recorder with no watermark. Capture full screens or custom regions, pause and resume without adding paused time, and record to compact H.264 MP4 or pixel-perfect lossless MKV. It starts fast, keeps controls out of the recording, and includes optional GitHub Releases updates.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- screen recorder for windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The basic UI and calling Windows recording libraries is straightforward, but building a high-performance, low-overhead native Windows desktop screen recorder that captures arbitrary regions, desktop audio, and hardware-accelerated video requires low-level Windows API programming.
What it would actually take: Requires C++ or C# using Windows Graphics Capture APIs (or Desktop Duplication via DirectX GI) and Media Foundation or FFmpeg/NVENC for real-time hardware-accelerated H.264/HEVC encoding. The hard part is achieving smooth 60fps recording with zero tearing, low CPU/RAM overhead, and synchronized system/microphone audio capture without dropping frames.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- Screen Recorder by Mamonov · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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- Focus Studio - Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- iToolShare Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Reframe · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Screen Recorder free Tools · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ScreenCursor · ph · 2026-09-13 · 195 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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Same idea, different domain
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