Product Positioning & Context
A free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, one-button recording of camera and screen, and every take in plain folders. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts the edit, makes the vertical version and drafts the posts. Leave notes on the frame; it turns them into rules and remembers them.
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What is Takes for Mac?
Takes for Mac is a digital product or tool described as: Record talking-head videos. Claude Code does the edit.
Where did Takes for Mac originate?
Data for Takes for Mac was aggregated directly from the Product Hunt community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Takes for Mac publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Takes for Mac within our tracked developer communities was recorded on October 13, 2026.
How popular is Takes for Mac?
Takes for Mac has achieved measurable traction, logging over 119 traction score and facilitating 19 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Takes for Mac?
Based on metadata extraction, Takes for Mac is categorized under topics such as: Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Video.
What are some commercial alternatives to Takes for Mac?
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How does the creator describe Takes for Mac?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "A free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, one-button recording of camera and screen, and every take in plain folders. Claude Code, on your own Cla..."
Community Voice & Feedback
I am interested in this product and looks really good. Going to try it out soon. Couple of things I wanted to let you know:1) I was in the onboarding phase, I was not allowed to Skip (kept hitting button but no action) and when I said generate script, I could see it being written in the background but there was no way for the onboarding screen and overlay to close. I had to quit the entire app and start it back again. I am on MacOS Golden Gate.
Just curious, is the person in the demo AI-generated, or is it real footage edited with AI?
I am doing my first video from the demo project, the 60-sec recording cut to 37 seconds, and took like an hour to process - is that usually how it works or will it get better with every new project?Kudos on the release, this is something I was actually looking for!
Marvin, keeping the old edit versions while you give notes on a new cut is a useful detail. Much easier to decide whether a change helped when you can go back to the earlier one. Congrats on the launch!
What level of control is available ?
Does it export the cut as an XML so I can open it in Resolve or Premiere and finish it there?
Nice that Takes for Mac records the talking head video and lets Claude Code handle the edit, so I can just talk and skip the timeline fiddling.
Happy launch day! Congrats on Takes for Mac. Nice to be launching alongside you today. We're launching Benson too: https://www.producthunt.com/products/benson-2. Would appreciate a comment or some support if you've got time. Hope the day goes well!
320 notes into 88 rules is the most useful number on this page. The thing I'd watch is rule 89 contradicting rule 12, because a note you gave once in March quietly beating one you gave this morning is near impossible to debug from the output side. Can you see the rule list and delete one? Derived rules you can't edit turn into folklore fast.
interesting product
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Marvin.I used to love making videos, but every session started with ten minutes of OBS settings and ended with an hour in an editor. So on Sept 27 I started building Takes for myself, with Claude Code. Every video I've made since was recorded and edited in it.Three parts:- Record: one button records camera and screen together. A teleprompter next to the lens follows your voice. Every take lands in a plain folder next to its script.- Edit: no timeline. Claude Code, on your own Claude plan, cuts silences, ums and restarts, makes the 9:16 version, adds captions in your style and drafts the posts. You leave notes on the frame ("too fast here") and it makes a new version. Old versions stay.- Remember: notes that matter beyond one video become rules Claude reads before the next edit. About 320 notes so far turned into 88 rules, so I rarely give the same note twice.It's free, MIT, no account, and your files stay on your Mac. It needs Apple silicon, macOS 15 and a paid Claude plan for the editing.Mehmet in the screenshots is a demo. Your shop, desk or kitchen works too.What should it do next?
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