Chop
Screenshots worth sending — on Mac, Windows & Ubuntu
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Chop is a fast screenshot and screen recorder for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu. Grab a window or region, mark it up with arrows, text, steps and blur, frame it on a gradient, and copy it in one keystroke. $19 once, no subscription. 30-day free trial.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 215 launches in screenshot capture and mockup tools →
Could you build this?
Partial The core capture, annotation, and gradient framing features are buildable with existing libraries. A polished, cross-platform native tool across Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu is harder, due to OS-level screen capture, global hotkeys, and code signing.
What it would actually take: Use a native or cross-platform framework such as Swift for macOS, C# or Win32 for Windows, and GTK or Qt for Ubuntu, or Tauri or Electron with native modules. Annotation can use a canvas library and the screen capture APIs are OS-specific. The hard parts are reliable capture and hotkeys on each OS, plus notarization and signing for distribution, which need platform-specific desktop experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 675 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #324 of 676 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Foldout Capture Studio · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Shottie · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- GrabCanvas · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Macsential · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Autocuts · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- VizShot · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Tinycap · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PrecisDesk · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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