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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.

Cyclop is a native macOS SwiftUI/AppKit utility that turns the MacBook notch into a hover-activated panel. It provides media controls for players and browser tabs visible to macOS, a drag-and-drop file shelf, clipboard history, reusable text snippets, calendar entries with meeting join buttons, offline English–Russian translation using macOS facilities, a teleprompter, and scratch notes. The panel unfolds when the pointer reaches the notch and collapses when it leaves; it can also open automatically during file dragging and remain open while a teleprompter script scrolls. The project is distributed as free, open-source software with no external dependencies, requires macOS 15 or newer, and needs one permission granted during first launch.

Vorssaint is a free, open-source Swift/SwiftUI macOS menu bar toolkit that combines utilities including per-application volume and audio controls, output and microphone switching, system monitoring, network statistics, app and window switching, window snapping, Dock previews, clipboard history, text snippets, file staging, screen capture, display and energy controls, media tools, cleaning, and app removal. It is modular: users can install or remove complete features, with removed features stopping loading while retaining their settings for later reinstallation. The toolkit also provides configurable shortcuts, panels, a command bar, and optional bundles for common setups. Vorssaint runs locally without an account, analytics, tracking, subscription, or required network service; its volume mixer requires no audio driver or setup, and selected features request only the relevant macOS permissions, including accessibility, screen recording, audio recording, microphone, camera, calendars, notifications, and disk access.

SpinWin is a macOS menubar utility that visually rotates or continuously spins another app’s window without private APIs or disabling System Integrity Protection. It hides the selected window off-screen through the Accessibility API, captures its contents with ScreenCaptureKit, and displays the frames in a transparent, borderless overlay whose CALayer transform applies preset 90-degree rotations, arbitrary angles, or continuous spinning. The overlay is sized to the rotated content’s bounding box to avoid clipping and can be dragged or freely rotated. It requires Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions; the overlay is a live, non-interactive picture, and the project notes limitations involving Mission Control, off-screen rendering throttling, and windows that resize themselves.