StepShot

Screendrop is a native, local-first macOS menu bar application for capturing, annotating, recording, editing, compressing, and sharing screenshots and screen recordings. It captures displays, windows, or selected areas; provides configurable hotkeys and after-capture workflows; and includes a floating preview stack, offline History, non-destructive annotation with redaction and mockup effects, and a recording studio with separate screen, camera, microphone, system-audio, cursor, click, and keystroke data. Recording projects support timeline edits, zooms, reconstructed cursors, camera layouts, captions, transcript-based cuts, social aspect ratios, and reusable style presets. On-device speech recognition provides transcription, karaoke-style captions, filler-word removal, silence trimming, and a notch-native teleprompter. Optional self-hosted sharing uses a Cloudflare Worker, R2, and D1: the Worker authenticates uploads, stores media and metadata, and returns share links for screenshot viewers or Loom-style recording pages with transcripts, comments, playback controls, and scrub previews. Captures, projects, annotation sidecars, and transcripts remain on the Mac unless explicitly uploaded, and there is no central Screendrop account or hosted server. The project is distributed as a DMG or Homebrew cask, requires macOS 26.4 or newer according to its README, and is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal.

Capptivo is a free, open-source screen recorder and editor for creating demo videos on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It tracks cursor movement and clicks to apply follow-cursor and click-based automatic zooms, and provides editor presets, annotations, facecam, backgrounds, captions, and MP4, WebM, or GIF export. Captions use a system whisper.cpp command-line binary, with model weights downloaded on first use. The application captures macOS screens through ScreenCaptureKit with VideoToolbox H.264 encoding, Windows screens through Windows.Graphics.Capture with hardware-encoding support, and Linux screens through xdg-desktop-portal and PipeWire. It is distributed through platform installers, including DMG or app archives for macOS, MSI or setup executables for Windows, and DEB, AppImage, or RPM packages for Linux. The repository releases it under the MIT license.

Skill Recorder is a Microsoft desktop application that records a work session—including screen activity, application and window switches, browser pages, clipboard previews, and optional spoken narration—and uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct the session as an overall intent and ordered steps. Users can review and edit the analysis, then generate either a reusable SKILL.md procedure for an AI agent or an Automation that runs on a schedule or trigger. Generated procedures prefer an agent’s native tools, such as the gh CLI or web_fetch, over replaying interface clicks and can generalize from the recorded example. Recording, frame extraction, local storage, and optional narration transcription occur on the computer; choosing Analyze sends the event timeline, extracted screen images, and narration text to GitHub’s cloud for Copilot processing. Narration is transcribed on-device using a Whisper model. The application is distributed as a source release that downloads a pinned Node.js runtime and builds the release locally without a global installation. macOS is the primary target, with Windows 11 support for x64 and ARM64 and Ubuntu installation instructions. A GitHub account with Copilot access is required.

MacTap is a macOS menu-bar app that turns one, two, or three knocks on a compatible MacBook chassis or the desk beneath it into keyboard shortcuts and other mapped actions. It supports left- and right-edge layouts, configurable sensitivity and actions, presets such as Daily, Coding, Capture, Media, and Focus, and per-application overrides. Tap classification runs on-device, with gesture mappings stored locally and nothing uploaded. It requires macOS 14.6 or later and a MacBook whose motion sensor is exposed as an SPU HID device, including M2-and-later models and M1 Pro, Max, or Ultra systems; some M1 models, including the original M1 Air, are unsupported. The app requires Accessibility permission for actions to send shortcuts, is distributed as a signed and notarized macOS app, and is licensed under the MIT license.

Shortcuts is Apple's automation app for creating and running workflows of native and third-party app actions on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Developed and distributed by Apple and bundled with iOS, iPadOS and macOS, it composes sequences of actions with variables, parameters and scripting blocks (conditionals, loops), supports web requests, file and media operations, and integrates with Siri, widgets, HomeKit and automation triggers; shortcuts can also be invoked from other apps via a URL scheme and pass data between apps.