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24 alternatives to DesktopAudio
Hi all, I built DesktopAudio to be able to capture any and everything my mac plays for my own purposes (and for friends asking for help to record podcasts and youtube video audio). A fun thing did happen while I was preparing everything for the ProductHunt launch (it is live right now), in order to get some audio into the video, I recorded the video using macos built-in recorder (cmd+shift+5) + desktopaudio (for the audio part) and then merged the two files :) I think I may be working on a tool to merge video, audio and voice over (if possible my/your own voice) but that's for later,…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Heeey! I built a macOS copilot that has been useful to me, so I open sourced it in case others would find it useful too. It's pretty simple: - Use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of your active macOS window and start recording the microphone. - Speak your question, then press the keyboard shortcut again to send your question + screenshot off to OpenAI Vision - The Vision response is presented in-context/overlayed over the active window, and spoken to you as audio. - The app keeps running in the background, only taking a screenshot/listening when activated by keyboard…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recordia▲200Simple audio recorder that lives in your macOS menu bar
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Glisiofree tier, from $9.99/mo▲116Mac Recorder & Snap editor w/auto-zoom, audio, local MP4
Aug 2026 · glisio.com · its alternatives →
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HyNote for Mac▲368Free local transcription that is 100% Private
Aug 2026 · hynote.ai · its alternatives →
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Smooth Recorderfrom $9/mo▲257Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop
24d ago · smoothrecorder.com · its alternatives →
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Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025 · whispersnapper.com · its alternatives →
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RM2000 Tape Recorder makes it stupid simple to grab audio samples and organize them: just record the sample, give it a title (and maybe some tags), and it is saved neatly into a directory of your choosing. I'm a huge datahoarder and have always appreciated tools / services like PureRef and Are.na which help me make sense of everything I collect. Those services concern themselves with images and video - I wondered, why can't the same be done with music and audiofiles? I actually got the inspiration for the filenaming scheme from the Emacs Denote package - every sample is saved in the…
2025 · rm2000.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made a mac desktop app which your coding agent can connect to and use ur mac to do the recording instead, as well as edit the video, add background music, clone my voice, and publish it to a bucket so ur agent can just automatically make and rerecord tutorials. I've ran into this issue a bunch in the past where I've needed to record a bunch of tutorials on how my software or specific features I've made work (mainly for documentation), and I've constantly needed to re-record things bc of new features or new UI, which has taken so much time. You can go back and a quick run through and…
Aug 2026 · clankcut.com · its alternatives →
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BetterRecorder▲113Record screen, video and audio on Mac
2021 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Aloud▲118Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run
Aug 2026 · aloud.sh · its alternatives →
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My friend built this and I'm blown away with how much fun it is and the high level of polish. It renders 9 different strange attractors (Lorenz, Rössler, Aizawa, Chen, etc.) as particle systems — thousands of particles tracing chaotic paths in real time. You can rotate and zoom with touch/trackpad in 3D. The sound is the part that surprised me. It's not a soundtrack — the audio is generated from the motion itself using spatial audio, so tones shift as the attractor's behavior changes and the sound moves around you as you rotate the form. Put on headphones. The Playdate version uses the…
Jun 2026 · fieldbw.com · its alternatives →
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A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.
Aug 2026 · getrescript.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, professional audio recorder
2015 · openplanetsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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MacScribe▲11The easy way to transcribe any audio or video on your Mac
2023 · appblit.com · its alternatives →
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Capture application audio directly in your favorite DAW.
2018 · staticz.com · its alternatives →
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...because Apple make it too hard to navigate chronologically through anything but your photos. Really they should have let you do this directly from voice memos so that you can share whenever and to wherever you want. If anyone has any suggestions to make it better, let me know. Thanks.
2025 · justsendrecord.com · its alternatives →
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Versatile screen capture and camera recorder
2025 · macrecorder.app · its alternatives →
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