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CLUSTER SCREEN-CAPTURES-MACOS · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-14

macOS screen capture apps

This cluster consists of native macOS applications for capturing screenshots and screen recordings, with added features like annotation, markup, redaction, OCR, background beautification, and GIF export. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as there are no dated entries before the index start, indicating the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are loupe (13 stars), winter_shot (3 stars), and BHCapture (1 star).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 2 commercial · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01loupe14★5 dayslivehobbyAn open-source macOS app for capturing screenshots and screen recordings, with annotation, editing, and GIF export.
  2. 02winter_shot3★7 dayslivemacOS app that captures screenshots and screen recordings with annotation tools, OCR, and background beautification, all on-device.
  3. 03BHCapture1★6 dayslivecommercialCross-platform screenshot and screen recorder app that captures any screen area, annotates images, records video with audio, and exports GIFs.
  4. 04better-recorder0★20 dayslivecommercialNative macOS app for recording screen and camera simultaneously and taking screenshots with markup and redaction tools.
  5. 05yayashot0★23 dayslivehobbymacOS app for taking screenshots, recording screen activity, and editing images and videos with privacy-focused local processing.
  6. 06facetimelapse0★24 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS daemon and terminal dashboard that captures periodic FaceTime webcam photos and stitches them into timelapse videos.

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