OwnClip
Native macOS screen recorder with local-first AI privacy
161 followers
Native macOS screen recorder with local-first AI privacy
161 followers
A high-performance, native macOS screen recorder built for speed. OwnClip features a strict local-first architecture and on-device AI processing—meaning your recordings, edits, and intelligence workflows happen entirely on your Mac with absolute privacy.
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Pyramid Solitaire
Looks very cool.
When we record these videos, we want to be able to share a URL so someone else can watch it. How do you share a video or screenshot if everything lives on your Mac?
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@michaelcyger Thanks , In OwnClip, we solve this with a feature called Smart Share.
How it works: While videos record locally on your Mac we also provide a way to back them up through your private Google Drive (additional private services will be added in the near future - but the key here is you own your data ), Smart Share instantly and securely uploads the file to the cloud in the background.
You immediately get a shareable link, and the recipient can watch the video directly in their browser without downloading anything.
Rebranding: You can also fully customize the viewing page. Add your own logo and brand colors so the shared link looks completely professional and tailored to your business.
The local-first + Apple Neural Engine angle is what sells me — I record a lot of app demo footage and hate that most recorders ship it to someone's cloud by default. Curious how Smart Share handles the trade-off: once a clip goes to Drive for the shareable link, is the on-device transcription/OCR still kept local only?
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@lennoxbeflying We will offer in our next builds - to embed the transcription in the video file or as an additional file to the "shared" package. I assume we will share this update in the next few days.
local-first on screen capture is the right default — memory pressure on long recordings is where on-device processing usually falls apart. the streaming-vs-batch call there is the interesting part.
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@tomer_weiss2 makes sense — pushing the stream to a cache file sidesteps the ram ceiling cleanly. the seam i'd watch is random-seek latency on a multi-gig cache file mid-download, but native disk access probably keeps that tight.
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@qifengzheng Today, Apple ARM NVMes are fine to address such files. So it shouldn't be an issue.
Foyer
What does AI do? I'm not sure to understand
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@fberrez1 Hi there, OwnClip features a local-first AI architecture that runs entirely on-device using your Mac's Apple Neural Engine and other small models we use. Features like instant on-device transcription, smart audio enhancement, OCR , WebCamera effects, and others.
Foyer
@tomer_weiss2 very interesting, thanks for answering
Really cool tool.
Didn't thought someone could pack so many useful stuff in a single tool.
Liked the transcription, screenshots history and of course the editing is really great.
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@alexander_arshavski Thank you very much for your feedback