Reelbird
Open Source Loom + Screen Studio alternative for Mac
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Reelbird is a free, open-source Mac screen recorder. The share link is on your clipboard when you stop. Later, add auto-zoom, a smooth cursor and captions, then update the same link. Native Swift, no account, your own S3/R2 bucket. Signed and notarized.
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PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 89 upvotes (top 1%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Marketing
- GitHub
- Video
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Partial Capturing screen audio and video is straightforward with ScreenCaptureKit, but the core value proposition—auto-zoom animations, smooth cursor path interpolation, and high-quality local video composition—requires advanced graphics pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift with ScreenCaptureKit and Accessibility APIs to log mouse movement coordinates alongside high-framerate video. Post-recording rendering needs AVFoundation, Core Image, or custom Metal shaders to interpolate cursor trajectories, render vector cursors, and smoothly animate dynamic zooms without frame drops or high memory bloat.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- reelbird · github · 2026-10-13 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.88
- Clipt · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Take One · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Capta · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Nivorly - Mac screen recorder · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Yapcam · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- glideshot · github · 2026-10-13 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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