SmoothCut
Screen recordings that look edited, without the editing
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SmoothCut records your screen and camera, then adds zooms that follow your cursor, a smooth cursor, camera layouts, clean audio and captions for you. It runs on Mac and Windows, works offline, and you pay once. Free to try, export included.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 4%)
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Video
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Partial The editor UI and export workflow are vibe-codeable, but capturing screen and camera with cursor tracking and auto-zoom on both Mac and Windows requires native low-level work.
What it would actually take: A working version needs native capture APIs (ScreenCaptureKit on Mac, Desktop Duplication or Windows Graphics Capture on Windows), cursor telemetry, and an auto-zoom algorithm that smooths cursor paths, plus an FFmpeg-based export pipeline. Local speech-to-text such as Whisper would handle captions. The hard parts are smooth zoom heuristics and cross-platform capture, which need graphics and OS-level expertise.
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Attention rank: #55 of 769 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
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