ScreenCraft
Open-source screen recorder and editor. Auto-zoom, smooth cursor, camera layouts, on-device captions, and a built-in compressor.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 66%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
Similar launches
See all 1065 similar launches →Could you build this?
No It is a native desktop screen recorder and non-linear video editor with local cursor smoothing, hardware-accelerated video rendering, and embedded whisper.cpp compilation.
What it would actually take: Building ScreenCraft requires a desktop framework (Rust/Tauri, C++, or Swift/Electron) interfacing with low-level OS capture APIs like ScreenCaptureKit or Windows Graphics Capture. It requires a custom video composition engine utilizing FFmpeg and GPU encoders (NVENC/VideoToolbox), along with native bindings for local Whisper speech recognition. This demands deep expertise in systems programming, audio/video pipelines, and desktop performance optimization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1065 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #686 of 1048 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Openvid · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Open-source Loom / Screen Studio with editing and auto-zoom · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- open-scrantic · github · 2026-10-16 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- glide · github · 2026-10-13 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- rec-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 83 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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More details
- External ID
- 1415685335
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- ScreenCraft
- Website domain
- mdnlabs.dev
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- open-source screen recorder and editor with auto-zoom and captions
- Manually corrected
- No