Record talking-head videos. Claude Code does the edit.
A free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, one-button recording of camera and screen, and every take in plain folders. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts the edit, makes the vertical version and drafts the posts. Leave notes on the frame; it turns them into rules and remembers them.
I used to love making videos, but every session started with ten minutes of OBS settings and ended with an hour in an editor. So on Sept 27 I started building Takes for myself, with Claude Code. Every video I've made since was recorded and edited in it.
Three parts: - Record: one button records camera and screen together. A teleprompter next to the lens follows your voice. Every take lands in a plain folder next to its script. - Edit: no timeline. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts silences, ums and restarts, makes the 9:16 version, adds captions in your style and drafts the posts. You leave notes on the frame ("too fast here") and it makes a new version. Old versions stay. - Remember: notes that matter beyond one video become rules Claude reads before the next edit. About 320 notes so far turned into 88 rules, so I rarely give the same note twice.
It's free, MIT, no account, and your files stay on your Mac. It needs Apple silicon, macOS 15 and a paid Claude plan for the editing.
Mehmet in the screenshots is a demo. Your shop, desk or kitchen works too.
What should it do next?
About Takes for Mac on Product Hunt
“Record talking-head videos. Claude Code does the edit.”
Takes for Mac launched on Product Hunt on October 13th, 2026 and earned 118 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. A free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, one-button recording of camera and screen, and every take in plain folders. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts the edit, makes the vertical version and drafts the posts. Leave notes on the frame; it turns them into rules and remembers them.
On the analytics side, Takes for Mac competes within Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and Video — topics that collectively have 551.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Takes for Mac performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Takes for Mac?
Takes for Mac was hunted by Marvin Aziz. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Marvin Aziz
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Marvin.
I used to love making videos, but every session started with ten minutes of OBS settings and ended with an hour in an editor. So on Sept 27 I started building Takes for myself, with Claude Code. Every video I've made since was recorded and edited in it.
Three parts:
- Record: one button records camera and screen together. A teleprompter next to the lens follows your voice. Every take lands in a plain folder next to its script.
- Edit: no timeline. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts silences, ums and restarts, makes the 9:16 version, adds captions in your style and drafts the posts. You leave notes on the frame ("too fast here") and it makes a new version. Old versions stay.
- Remember: notes that matter beyond one video become rules Claude reads before the next edit. About 320 notes so far turned into 88 rules, so I rarely give the same note twice.
It's free, MIT, no account, and your files stay on your Mac. It needs Apple silicon, macOS 15 and a paid Claude plan for the editing.
Mehmet in the screenshots is a demo. Your shop, desk or kitchen works too.
What should it do next?