Tinycap
Tiny screen recorder and screenshot tool for your Mac
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Record a window, screen or area from the menu bar and export a small MP4, WebM or GIF. Or take a screenshot and mark it up with bendable arrows, text, pixelation and a crop. Free, open source, notarized, nothing leaves your Mac.
PH · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: screen recording software · 193 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu-bar app that records a screen region with ScreenCaptureKit, encodes to MP4/WebM/GIF, and offers basic annotation is a well-documented, bounded project. Vibe-coding Swift handles most of it, and notarization is a known process.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1171 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #651 of 1172 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Tweety · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Yapcam · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Prequel · ph · 2026-08-30 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Lorivelle · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Take One · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Caplo · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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