reelbird
Free, open-source screen recorder for macOS. A share link the moment you stop, then auto-zoom, smooth cursor and captions under the same link. Native Swift, your own S3/R2 bucket, CLI and MCP server. A Loom and Screen Studio alternative.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 33 upvotes (top 39%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- auto-zoom
- captions
- cloudflare-r2
- loom-alternative
- macos
- macos-app
- +14 more
Similar launches
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Partial The share-link and S3 upload flow and the UI are buildable, but the macOS capture pipeline with ScreenCaptureKit, smooth cursor rendering, and auto-zoom needs native media expertise that vibe coding alone may not deliver reliably.
What it would actually take: Build in Swift using ScreenCaptureKit and AVFoundation for capture and compositing, with cursor-tracking data reprocessed for smoothing and zoom. Captions can use a local Whisper-style model, and sharing goes to S3/R2 through presigned URLs. The hard parts are real-time capture performance, permissions handling, and post-processing timelines, which require experienced macOS media engineers.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #233 of 499 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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