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24 alternatives to I completed shipping my desktop app
Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…
This desktop application provides a suite of tools for processing video, music, and photo files in a single interface. Users can compress, convert, resize, crop, and perform other editing functions with straightforward… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN, I've been working on this project for the last 5 months, inspired by Screen Studio but runs 100% in the browser. Here is a demo of the editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-etsFZgPI One of the big challenges of using the browser is getDisplayMedia, the API for recording screens, doesn't provide mouse coordinates for security reasons. Mouse coordinates are important for auto-focus animations. So I trained a YOLOv11 model to detect mouse cursors and I run inference in real time while you record. Also, I created my own Remotion-style renderer because I started with…
2025 · screenrecorder.me · its alternatives →
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TinyFast▲319I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns. So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types. I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.
2025 · tinyfast.app · its alternatives →
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I've been building open-source tools in the video/multimedia space for 10+ years. Finally shipped the commercial product I always wanted to exist — Video Commander, a desktop app that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, VMAF and more into a single workspace where you can inspect, encode and analyze video. Built with Tauri + Rust backend, React frontend. FFmpeg and VMAF. Not a cool AI/LLM project, just a tool I've been heads-down building over the last six months. Happy to answer any questions!
Apr 2026 · video-commander.com · its alternatives →
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Screentell▲164I’m an indie dev, and every time I launch or ship anything, there’s this familiar mini-hell: “now I need to record a decent demo…” You probably know the drill: - install yet another screen recorder - mess with audio input / system audio - accidentally capture your messy tabs or notifications - re-record because you forgot to hide something sensitive - open a separate editor just to crop, zoom, or add a simple arrow After doing this a few too many times, I realized I was spending way more time fighting tools than making the actual demo. And most of my needs were pretty simple: short…
Jan 2026 · screentell.com · its alternatives →
- 5IM
My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that. I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.
2025 · saveplays.com · its alternatives →
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A simple & free, beautiful animator for all photos and ads
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I made this app Demo Scope lets you record or stream any mobile website with your face on screen and touch indicators showing every tap. I built it because I needed to demo my own side projects and hated the OBS/desktop setup. Load your site in the app, hit record, done. Or stream straight to Twitch/YouTube. Free to try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/demo-scope/id6755395174 Would love feedback if anyone tries it. I made a landing site centered around mobile demos for professional projects, but my main use case honestly has been Twitch…
Dec 2025 · demoscope.app · its alternatives →
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A free, open source, Descript alternative. Runs on-device.
Aug 2026 · getrescript.com · its alternatives →
- 9AD
Hello! I'm Andrew Arrow, a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and years, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up a software developer. I purchased the full version of the software a long, long time ago. And to Apple's credit, every single time I goto the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know, but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and noticed the XML Export feature. Wow. There's a lot of stuff there. I mean a lot. I started playing around with…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I've always found Screen Studio recordings superb. Unfortunately I'm not on a Mac, so I've developed my own tool that works in the browser for all OS. I hope you'll find it useful, and I'd be delighted to hear your feedback.
2024 · smooth.video · its alternatives →
- 11IB
After being frustrated with the budget and learning curve requirements of the big names in the Virtual Production field, I decided to create my own all-in-one platform designed with beginners and less-technical folk in mind. It takes complicated tasks in other engines (tracking, compositing, floor plans, etc.) and makes them two-click solutions. And, with the free companion mobile app, you can track cameras, scan your sets, and (coming soon) do full body motion capture! There's a ton more features that I'm super proud of, and I'm open to any and all feedback! Thanks!
2022 · sceneforge.app · its alternatives →
- 12IB
Frameloop is an AI-powered video creation and automation tool, that turns ideas into publishable videos within seconds. I've been working on this for past 4 months now, and have few paying customers as well. Most of them are individual creators, and about 20% are businesses. I'd like to focus more on business users going forwards, and am building branded video features for businesses. There are many other tools at this point, but my focus has been to focus on great UX, and giving users a really good first draft, which is easily editable. And I think that focus is what differentiates us. Try…
2024 · frameloop.ai · its alternatives →
- 13MW
http://imagestash.org/ Kind of like Instapaper for images. While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
2011 · imagestash.org · its alternatives →
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Expi▲9Hey folks! For starter, I'm a 17+ senior cinematic designer (damn I'm getting old haha) and this tool is a culmination of many years of frustration or missing features or absolutely terrible UI/UX from other tools. So, I'm surmounting my anxiety of showing personal work and passion project, even after all these years, I'm still struggling on showing my work haha. It's been roughly two years now that I've been hard at work on creating my perfect little export/converting tool that I wish I had in my pocket for all my exporting needs. I've built https://getexpi.app ! It's…
Feb 2026 · getexpi.app · its alternatives →
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This is a mac app that supports local media indexing, text-to-audio transcription, and video-to-text generation with VEO 3.1 The app runs offline and lets you index local and external drives without needing to upload your content to the cloud. To use VEO you'll need an internet connection and your own API key. We're only supporting Silicon Macs right now, but would consider Intel and Windows releases if there's interest. Price is $19.99 for a lifetime license that includes future updates. If you have any feedback or want to join our discord, drop me a comment. Demo:…
2025 · meetcosmos.com · its alternatives →
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Pahadify▲12Hello HN, I am a solo developer based in INDIA. I wanted to share Pahadify, a lightweight image editing utility I've been working on. The Problem: I was tired of simple image tools that require uploading private files to a server or downloading heavy 500MB+ software just for basic edits. The Solution: I built this as a completely client-side PWA (Progressive Web App). Technical Details: Stack: Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (No heavy frameworks). Size: The entire application is approximately 1.5MB. Privacy: All processing happens in the browser; no image data is sent to a backend. I built…
Feb 2026 · thepahadify.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm the developer behind Pablituuu. I spent the last few months solving the "heavy lifting" of browser-based video editing. It uses a custom orchestration layer with Fabric.js, WebGL-accelerated rendering (via OpenVideo), and FFmpeg/WASM for client-side processing to eliminate server costs and latency. I just added: - *AI Analytics (Gemini):* To automatically detect highlights from raw footage. - *FFmpeg WASM:* For native browser processing. - *Optimized Timeline:* Handles precision state sync between canvas and layers. I'm looking for technical feedback on memory management for…
Jan 2026 · pablituuu.space · its alternatives →
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Recently there were some changes to the Twitter algorithm and one of the most important ones was boosting video content even more in the feed, which got me thinking: "Why shouldn't we benefit from the algo changes and get a boost every time we are sharing some visuals?" So I spent the weekend building a tool that: - Turns your images into videos - Has 30 beautiful animated gradients that we can pick from - Is completely FREE I'd love to know your thoughts about it!
2023 · clippulse.com · its alternatives →
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Picture Kit▲10I’ve been working on a side project for a while and wanted to share it with the HN community to get feedback. The idea started simple: I wanted to do batch image processing entirely in the browser without uploading anything to a server. Most existing tools were either cloud-based (privacy concerns, slow for large batches) or desktop apps that were hard to automate and combine into workflows. A big source of inspiration was macOS Automator. I really liked how you could chain small actions into repeatable workflows, and I wanted something similar for image processing on the web. At first it…
Jan 2026 · picturekit.app · its alternatives →
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Smallimg▲7Hi HN, I built a free image compression tool called Smallimg.cc that runs entirely in the browser. The main motivation was privacy. I was never comfortable uploading potentially sensitive images to a third-party server just for compression. This tool solves that by using JavaScript and WebAssembly to perform all the processing on the client-side. Your files are never transferred over the network. Key features: Total Privacy: Your images never leave your computer. Incredible Speed: No upload/download time, just instant processing. Full Control: You can adjust quality, resize, and convert…
2025 · smallimg.cc · its alternatives →
- 22CT
Built this at a Startup Weekend last November. We've been sitting on this code for months. Would love to have some people signup and throw us a little feedback. Clearly this isn't finished, but with a little crowd support, we could just wrap it up in a weekend. A few things: - Works with Youtube and Vimeo, probably a few others. - Web UI is still pretty sloppy - zero onboarding. sorry. - We have native iPhone and iPad clients that are a handful of bugs from being shipped. Anyone interested in beta testing them, shoot me an email at ddinch :at: gmail. We will beam you up via TestFlight (great…
2011 · clpstr.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I rebuilt my side project into a small “all-in-one” image toolbox: https://imagesplitter.tools The part I’m most proud of (and personally use the most) is the collage workflow: 1. Grid collage (templates + merge cells for “one big + many small” layouts) 2. Long-image stitching (great for screenshots / step-by-step guides / chat logs) 3. Freeform collage (DIY your own grid layout — split/merge cells however you want — then apply that layout to the grid collage) My motivation was pretty simple: I kept bouncing between different sites for basic image chores, and…
Jan 2026 · imagesplitter.tools · its alternatives →
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Compress, convert, merge files — all 254 tools, all offline
Apr 2026 · 1filetool.com · its alternatives →
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