Slice
A native macOS screen recorder and editor.
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Slice is a native macOS screen recorder and editor built with SwiftUI. Record your screen and turn raw footage into polished product demos with smooth zooms, cursor effects, motion blur, transitions, and more. Slice is source-available and built for people who care about how their software looks and feels.
PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 193 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Video
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Could you build this?
Partial The editor UI and effects such as zooms and cursor styling are vibe-codeable, but a native macOS recorder needs deep knowledge of ScreenCaptureKit, Metal/AVFoundation rendering, and real-time performance.
What it would actually take: A real version is a SwiftUI app using ScreenCaptureKit for capture and AVFoundation or Core Image/Metal for rendering effects such as zoom keyframes, cursor overlays, and motion blur. The hard parts are smooth real-time rendering, cursor and event tracking, and the macOS permission model. It requires macOS systems programming and graphics expertise beyond what prompting alone reliably produces.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 546 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 547 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- Autocuts · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Screen Recorder – Video Editor App · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Slice · github · 2026-10-16 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Nivorly - Mac screen recorder · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Capta · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Prequel · ph · 2026-08-30 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Framecast · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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