CapSoftware/Cap
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Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 7 comments · first 2023-11-23 · latest 2026-10-24
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Using OBS only when it’s a must Much happier with Cap for screencast recording https://github.com/capsoftware/cap
comment by adeptima · 2026-10-24 · in OBS Studio 33 -
so is cap if one has the will to build from source, no? https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap/blob/main/LICENSE
comment by SSLy · 2026-04-05 · in OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio -
…awesome! Super excited to try it. What are pros / cons over Cap? https://cap.so/ - also open source https://github.com/CapSoftware/cap
comment by jlarks32 · 2026-04-05 · in OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio -
…a few animated demos. I've used another Screen Studio open source alternative, Cap, in the past. https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap Might be worth calling out what makes Reframed different.
comment by vunderba · 2026-02-24 · in Reframed – Open-source alternative to Screen Studio, have editor, auto-zoom -
Why is this paid when I or someone else can vibe code one for free or use an open source one? https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap
comment by colesantiago · 2026-02-08 · in Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio -
From https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap : > Cap is currently in public beta, and is available for macOS and Web. Windows and Linux builds are in development. Join the Cap Discord ( https://discord.gg/y8gdQ3WRN3 ) to help test future…
comment by mavelikara · 2024-05-13 · in Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative -
The code repo literally still has default templates: https://github.com/cap-so/cap/tree/main/apps/desktop From what I can tell, the developer woke up today and decided creating the marketing material up front was more important than…
comment by Art9681 · 2023-11-29 · in Show HN: Cap – open-source alternative to Loom