Screen recording and screenshot tools
Desktop apps, browser extensions and web tools that capture screenshots and screen recordings, often with auto-zoom polish, annotation, OCR search, redaction and sharing, for people making demos, tutorials, bug reports or collecting screenshots.
Built for: Developers, makers, and content creators
Projects since May 04
282
Different builders
269
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+7%
AI is the core
9.6%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (47%), browser extension (32%), web app (10%) · from r/SideProject, r/chrome_extensions, r/IMadeThis, r/SaaS
Latest
- PrivacyStage — Provides a virtual camera that lets the user hide selected windows and notifications from a screen share during a call.“Hide multiple windows at once, mid-call, from everything you're sharing”
- Zack KI — Captures a selected screen region on a hotkey and sends it to an AI to explain an error or suggest next steps.“After trying ChatGPT Ads, my budget sent me to Reddit”
- KeptHere — Runs on-device OCR over photos and screenshots so the text in them can be searched offline.“Screenshot text search app”
- Snapify — Captures full-page and delayed screenshots in the browser, with auto save, multiple export formats, and element ignoring.“What new features would you like to have in Snapify - Screenshot & Full Page Capture extension”
- DejaShot — Indexes the text in screenshots from chosen folders and searches them by content and source app.“I made a Mac app that finds any screenshot by the words in it and where it came from”
- SnapFloat — Shows a floating preview of each new screenshot so it can be dragged straight into other windows.“I made a tiny Windows app so I can drag screenshots straight into Claude Code”
- NoClippy — Hides user-selected Windows app windows from OBS captures and screen recordings while leaving them visible on the user's own monitor.“I made NoClippy, a free Windows app that keeps the windows you pick off your stream while they look normal on your screen”
- SnapForge — Captures, annotates, and saves or pins screenshots on Mac, keeping a local history of recent captures.“I built a native Mac screenshot app and finally shipped it”
- Reel Screen Recorder — Records the iPhone or iPad screen with microphone commentary and an optional face-camera overlay, then saves the video to Photos.“I built an iPhone/iPad screen recorder with a face-camera PiP — here's the workflow”
- shotpdf — Renders screenshots, PDFs from URLs or HTML, and OG social images through a single API key.“I built a screenshot/PDF/OG-image API on Cloudflare Workers — 49/mo for 50k renders, free tier included”
- toads — Records Mac screens with automatic zooms, background removal, auto captions, translation and audio tools.“BEST SCREEN RECORDER FOR MAC”
- CrazyCap — Records a macOS screen and automatically adds zooms, cursor smoothing, and a background to make product demos polished.“I built a macOS screen recorder for people who hate editing demos”
- PaneDrop — Captures a screen region and inserts its file path into the prompt of a chosen AI coding agent session in a terminal.“I got tired of screenshot → find file → paste path into my AI agent, so I'm building a Mac tool for it”
- aScreenRecorder — Records the Mac screen and camera with automatic zoom and cursor effects, transcribes audio locally, adds captions, and opens an editor for changes.“I built a Mac screen recorder using my own video editing SDK”
- DumpPixels — Extracts text from screenshots on-device into editable local notes, then moves the original screenshots to Recently Deleted.“I built an iOS app that saves the text from a screenshot, then deletes the screenshot”
- Records the screen, camera, or both through a Chrome extension with selectable audio sources.“open-source Chrome extension for easy video recording”
- video2docs — Converts screen recordings of a workflow into step-by-step written guides with automatically captured screenshots.“we built a tool that turns screen recordings of your workflow into step-by-step written guides”
- GlidePage — Records smooth scrolling videos of a website from a pasted URL, with selectable scroll styles, device frames and backgrounds.“I made a macOS app that turns any website into a smooth 4K scrolling video”
- FramioCam — Captures screenshots and screen recordings in Chrome and edits them locally with annotations, frames, backgrounds, and a video timeline editor.“How would you grow a Chrome extension from ~100 users to 1,000+?”
- WristCapture — Triggers a screenshot on an Android phone from a button on a paired smartwatch.“Super Simple Android App - Take Screenshots on Your Phone From Your Watch”
Most discussed
- Screen Charm — Records the screen and produces screen recordings as a Mac app.“After ~20 SaaS projects over 10 years, I made $6k in 30 days”
- Shacam — Shares images, windows, and iPhone or iPad screens through a webcam feed and lets users manipulate them with hand gestures.“I built an app that lets you share images, windows, your iPhone or iPad over your webcam, and interact with them using your hands like real objects”
- screenpitch — Records the screen to capture video of a user's display.“I made my first sale from vibe coded app.”
- SnipGIF — Records a selected area of the screen in a Chrome browser and converts it into a GIF, like a snipping tool.“I built a GIF maker that functions like a snipping tool”
- Records Windows screen footage and automatically adds zooms, pans, transitions, cursors, and backgrounds, with keyboard-driven director controls and a virtual camera output.“I spent 4 months building this. 70 people tried it, and nobody came back.”
- Screenbolt — Records screen video and automatically adds camera zoom and edits around clicks, so the recording needs no manual editing.“Solo dev. $5k out of pocket. 10 sales in 48 hours. Here's the unsexy thing that's working”
- Product Shot — Places screenshots into window frames and layouts to produce polished mockup images in a browser editor.“Drop your app/website screenshot below, I'll turn it into a polished mockup — free, first 15”
- ShotCandy — Styles screenshots with backgrounds, frames, arrows and blur, then exports them at social media and App Store sizes entirely in the browser.“I built a free screenshot beautifier that runs entirely in your browser (no signup, no upload, open source)”
- AuroShot — Captures full screen, active window, or selected areas on Windows and lets the user annotate them with arrows, shapes, text, blur and crop.“Looking for feedback: I've built a free screenshot tool for Windows”
- Open URLs App — Bulk opens a list of URLs, captures screenshots of each page, and inserts them into PowerPoint slides.“I built an automation tool to escape "Screenshot Hell" after my boss asked for 300 manual web captures.”