Clipt
Free, open source screen recording without the friction
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Record, trim, frame. Clipt is a free, open source screen recorder for Mac that stays out of your way. Pick your screen, a window or an area, and record. When you stop, a simple editor opens: trim, crop, add a background, padding, rounded corners or your camera. Export, and the MP4 is already on your clipboard. Every feature is free. No account, no watermark, no paid tier, and your recordings never leave your Mac. Export clean videos in seconds. Try it right in your browser.
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Video
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See all 942 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The recording editor UI is straightforward, but a real macOS screen recorder depends on native capture pipelines (ScreenCaptureKit, AVFoundation) and permissions, signing, and notarization, which an AI-assisted solo builder can struggle to get right.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI app around ScreenCaptureKit for window/area capture, AVFoundation for camera overlay and compositing, and an AVComposition-based editor for trim, crop, padding, and background. The hard parts are reliable real-time capture and encoding with low CPU use, plus macOS permission, signing, and notarization workflows. That calls for a developer comfortable with low-level Apple media APIs and debugging them.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 942 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #178 of 943 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
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