loupe
Free, open-source screenshot and screen recording app for macOS: capture, annotate, add backgrounds, and record MP4 or GIF. A native CleanShot X alternative.
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Details
- External ID
- 1413599147
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- loupe
- Website domain
- loupe.pics
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.18
- Tags
- annotation, cleanshot-alternative, gif, mac-app, macos, menu-bar-app, screen-recorder, screen-recording, screencapturekit, screenshot, screenshot-tool, swift, swiftui
Enrichment
- Niche
- screenshot capture and mockup tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source screen capture and recording app for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Loupe is a client-side macOS utility built in Swift using standard system APIs like ScreenCaptureKit and AVFoundation, which modern AI coding assistants can generate rapidly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 391 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #369 of 392 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- BaseShot · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Orbshot · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- CleanShot 5.0 with Studio Mode · ph · 2026-09-02 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OpenScreenShot · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- glideshot · github · 2026-10-13 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
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