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Life & fun · February 8, 2014

Tapes for Mac

Share screencasts fast.

Tapes for Mac launched on February 8, 2014 with 67 votes, #339 of 1,100 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

Tapes is a screencast app living in your menu bar. Select part of the screen, record up to 5 minutes of video and instantaneously get a share link.

Show your parents how to set up FaceTime or block annoying ads without spending a minute on your phone. Show your colleagues how you think the newest feature should be done without walking over to their desks. Go through your work and review it for your clients in a one short video. No need to post dozens of Basecamp messages. Record a way to reproduce a bug. Show areas of potential improvement. Win long discussions before they even started. Recording has never been simpler. Tapes works just like you expect it to. Press ⇧⌘2 to record and again to finish up. You can also use easily accessible controls in the menu bar. The best thing is that you can share the link without waiting for the…from usetapes.com

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