Synapse
2.9MB Mac app with screenshot, clipboard, Keep Awake and more
Details
- External ID
- 48368142
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Synapse
- Website domain
- synapsemac.com
- Launched
- June 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.73224043715847
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight mac utility app with screenshots and clipboard
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an aggregation of standard native macOS APIs (Apple Vision framework for OCR, NSPasteboard for clipboard history, IOPMAssertion for keep-awake, and ScreenCaptureKit) wrapped in a clean SwiftUI interface.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Alfred
Concerns raised: Not available on Homebrew or App Store yet
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 756 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #240 of 757 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 216 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kipless · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Bonsplit · hn · 2026-01-25 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- BetterCapture · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MoniVol · github · 2026-09-27 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- noterepo · github · 2026-09-29 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.