Record your screen and the demo looks great on the first take: zooms planned from your clicks, smooth cursor, 3D camera moves, cursor themes, backgrounds and webcam layouts. Then let your AI agent do the edit over MCP, or cut the video yourself by deleting words in the transcript. Windows, macOS and Linux. Free, MIT, no account, no watermark.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Etienne and I maintain OpenScreen.
It started as Siddharth Vaddem's side project, a free alternative to Screen Studio. He archived it in June and I took it over with his approval. 2.0 is four months of work since then, and 137 people have contributed to the project so far.
What's new:
a local MCP server, so Claude Code or another agent can do the edit for you
zooms planned from your clicks, as shots, not one per click
cut the video by deleting words in the transcript, captions transcribed locally
webcam beside or above the recording, with background blur or removal
a native GPU renderer, exports about 15x faster than before on our reference laptop
a 3D camera that moves with your zooms, and five cursor themes with sculpted 3D versions
Windows, macOS and Linux. Free and MIT, no account, no watermark. Thanks to Siddharth for starting it, and to everyone who contributes.
What do you make your demos with today, and what would OpenScreen need for you to switch?
Congrats Etienne, and good on you for picking it up instead of letting it sit archived.
I went through the OpenScreen source a while back. The comment in zoomSpring.ts about the eased target causing a jerk at zoom seams changed how I think about camera motion. Small detail, but you can feel it in the result.
Curious about "zooms as shots": how do you decide which clicks go in one shot? Time gap, distance on screen, or both?
Congratulation! I use Screen Studio a while, then switched to Record, now, I I'd like to try OpenScreen!
free, MIT, no watermark on a tool this polished is rare, respect for keeping it that way through the rewrite. question on the transcript-based cutting: local transcription is never perfect, so what happens when the agent deletes a word that got misheard and the cut lands mid-sentence instead of in the pause? does it show you the edit list before committing, or is undo the main safety net there?
Can I export videos in different resolutions and aspect ratios for YouTube, LinkedIn and social media?
I like that it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. No accounts or watermark is a nice bonus too.
About OpenScreen 2 on Product Hunt
“Record your demo and let your AI agent do the edits”
OpenScreen 2 launched on Product Hunt on October 11th, 2026 and earned 166 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Record your screen and the demo looks great on the first take: zooms planned from your clicks, smooth cursor, 3D camera moves, cursor themes, backgrounds and webcam layouts. Then let your AI agent do the edit over MCP, or cut the video yourself by deleting words in the transcript. Windows, macOS and Linux. Free, MIT, no account, no watermark.
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Who hunted OpenScreen 2?
OpenScreen 2 was hunted by Etienne Lescot. 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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Etienne Lescot
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Etienne and I maintain OpenScreen.
It started as Siddharth Vaddem's side project, a free alternative to Screen Studio. He archived it in June and I took it over with his approval. 2.0 is four months of work since then, and 137 people have contributed to the project so far.
What's new:
a local MCP server, so Claude Code or another agent can do the edit for you
zooms planned from your clicks, as shots, not one per click
cut the video by deleting words in the transcript, captions transcribed locally
webcam beside or above the recording, with background blur or removal
a native GPU renderer, exports about 15x faster than before on our reference laptop
a 3D camera that moves with your zooms, and five cursor themes with sculpted 3D versions
Windows, macOS and Linux. Free and MIT, no account, no watermark. Thanks to Siddharth for starting it, and to everyone who contributes.
What do you make your demos with today, and what would OpenScreen need for you to switch?