OpenScreen 2
Product Hunt Etienne Lescot
OpenScreen 2 launched as a free screen-recording app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It edits on transcript words and lets an AI agent handle the cut, with no account or watermark.
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OpenScreen 2 is here for people who want screen recordings that look polished without spending an afternoon in a timeline. It records on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and the pitch is simple: make the demo look good on the first take, or make the cleanup easy if it doesn’t.
The app bakes in the little things that make a recording feel less awkward. Clicks can trigger planned zooms, the cursor can stay smooth, and there are 3D camera moves, cursor themes, background choices, and webcam layouts. That’s a lot of control for a tool that’s free.
And if you do need to edit, OpenScreen 2 takes a modern route. You can let an AI agent handle the edit over MCP, or you can cut the video yourself by deleting words in the transcript. That transcript-first approach is a lot less fiddly than scrubbing through clips one by one.
The rest of the pitch is as open as the name suggests: MIT licensed, no account required, and no watermark. For a product hunt launch in the crowded screen-recording space, that combination is doing a lot of work.
It’s aimed at a very specific pain point: making demo videos without the usual software tax, the signup wall, or the branding badge slapped across the corner.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the kind of open-source tool that makes closed, watermark-heavy screen recorders look lazy. Free, MIT, no account, no watermark — that’s a proper answer to the usual upsell theater. Also, transcript-based editing is exactly the sort of practical AI use that matters more than whatever demo gets applause on stage.
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