BetterCapture
free and open source screen recorder for macOS
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HN · launched Feb 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 203 launches in screen recording software →
Could you build this?
Yes Apple provides the high-level ScreenCaptureKit framework and AVFoundation in Swift, making a native macOS menu-bar screen recorder achievable via vibe coding.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: ProRes 4444 codec support, System audio recording
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2806 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2600 of 2807 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.88
- DaisyCap · github · 2026-11-02 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- Tinycap, a tiny Mac screen recorder that makes PR-sized GIFs and MP4s · hn · 2026-10-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.81
- Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Openvid · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- SunShot · github · 2026-11-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- isocast · github · 2026-10-13 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.73
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