Take One
Free, open-source screen recorder for Mac with auto zoom
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Take One records your Mac screen along with every click, then edits it for you: zooms that follow your clicks, a smooth cursor, backgrounds, camera layouts and captions. Everything stays editable on a timeline. Free, MIT licensed, no account needed.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Partial The recording and basic editor are buildable with macOS capture APIs, but the click-driven auto zoom, smooth cursor rendering, and timeline editing form a substantial rendering pipeline that vibe coding alone may not produce cleanly.
What it would actually take: A real version would use ScreenCaptureKit and AVFoundation in Swift, with click and cursor event logging synchronized to the video. The hard parts are the smoothing and zoom-path algorithms and a non-destructive timeline renderer with GPU-accelerated compositing, which typically need graphics and media-engineering experience.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #496 of 899 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
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