Retina is a Mac screen recorder built for polished demos. Auto-zoom into the action. Cursor paths cleaned into smooth arcs. 4K export, optimized file sizes. Recordings look cinematic out of the box — no post-production needed. Built for product demos, tutorials, and feature walkthroughs that need to look professional without hours in editing. Currently in beta. Free. No watermark. Made by BlendPixel.
Hey PH 👋
I built Retina because every screen recorder I tried produced flat, hard-to-watch output. Auto-zoom tools existed but felt random; cursor jitter was always there.
Spent a few months on the heuristics: when to zoom, how fast, where to center, and how to clean cursor paths without losing intent.
You hit record, hit stop, export. The recording looks like an editor worked on it.
Currently free during beta. No watermark, no subscription. Looking for feedback from people who make demos, tutorials, or feature walkthroughs — what's broken in your current workflow?
curious what the AI graphics piece actually does because that's the vaguest part of the description. auto-zoom and cursor smoothing are clear mechanical features. AI graphics could mean anything from background removal to generative overlays to automatic callout annotations. what's actually in that feature and how much control do you have over what it produces
With Retina,
I can showcase the screenshots of my terminals with more fluidity now!
The product looks great until I saw that it was only available in a Mac. Yes, please put that on your roadmap and best of luck!
Any consideration for making some of this functionality for non-recorded sessions? As a GTM professional you might find this valuable even for live demos too
Looks great, but my Mac wont allow it to run :(
I've recorded dozens of product demos and the post-production always takes 5x longer than the actual recording. Auto-zoom into the area of activity is the one feature that would save the most time — manually adding zoom keyframes in DaVinci Resolve is the most tedious part of any tutorial video.
The "cinematic out of the box, no post-production" claim is bold but that's exactly what the market needs. Screen recordings are the most common video type for SaaS demos and tutorials, yet they look amateurish 90% of the time. A tool that produces something polished enough for a Product Hunt launch video or YouTube tutorial without touching a video editor would be incredibly valuable. No watermark in beta is a smart move.
I would like to recommend one feature, if you could add a feature for gamers. So, gamers install retina on their device and they just push start so what the app does is clip out the best highlights of the games so these clips can be posted on their social accounts. Also launch this products for windows. This will be my recommendation.
Hi Mourtaza, congrats on shipping! auto-zoom + smooth cursors is the right cut at demo-video pain, the bit that breaks every screen recording is the cursor frantically searching for the button. one question tho, smoothing redraws an idealised cursor path, but overshoots, hover-hesitation, and re-clicks-after-misclick all carry information about what the user actually did. is there a threshold where you preserve the messy original because it's the truth of the workflow? good luck!
@aza_ali This looks very good. I produce tons of demos every week and use other products. Will this be a single payment product or a monthly subscription?
About Retina on Product Hunt
“Screen recorder w/ auto-zoom, smooth cursors, + AI graphics”
Retina launched on Product Hunt on May 20th, 2026 and earned 143 upvotes and 27 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Retina is a Mac screen recorder built for polished demos. Auto-zoom into the action. Cursor paths cleaned into smooth arcs. 4K export, optimized file sizes. Recordings look cinematic out of the box — no post-production needed. Built for product demos, tutorials, and feature walkthroughs that need to look professional without hours in editing. Currently in beta. Free. No watermark. Made by BlendPixel.
Retina was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Design Tools (260.2k followers) and Video (1.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 49.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Retina?
Retina was hunted by Mourtaza Ali. 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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