SceneRecap: The screen recorder that explains what happened

Hi PH — we're the team behind SceneRecap. We built this because of a specific, recurring annoyance: someone sends you a screen recording of a bug, and it's 4 minutes of silent clicking. Or you're the one recording, and the tool wants you to narrate like a YouTuber to get anything useful out of it. Loom-style recorders are built around your voice. Most of the recordings that actually matter at work — bug repros, "how do I do X", a debugging session you want to hand off — have nobody talking in them. So we made the recorder watch the screen instead. It captures the tab (or you upload any screen recording — QuickTime, OBS, a Loom export) plus, with the extension, a privacy-strict log of interactions: clicks, navigations, console errors, failed requests — never keystrokes as text. The worker pulls keyframes aligned to those events and the model writes the explanation in the mode you picked (bug report, tutorial, explanation, recap). Every claim carries a timestamp that seeks the video, so when the AI is wrong you can see it's wrong in one click. That "evidence-linked" rule is the thing we cared most about getting right. Some honest notes: - The AI is Gemini via the paid API (not used for training). It sees sampled frames + the interaction log + a transcript if you spoke — not the raw video. - It gets things wrong sometimes, especially on very long or very fast sessions. That's why every sentence is a seek link. - You don't need the extension: upload any screen recording from the dashboard and it runs through the same pipeline (no interaction log, so evidence is visual only). The extension adds one-click tab capture and the click log. It's also open source (MIT). What's free: 25 recordings up to 10 minutes, 25 analyses a month, Explain + Bug Report modes. Bug Report is free on purpose — it's the use case we think is most broken, and we want your bugs explained whether or not you pay us. There's an explained recording you can poke at without signing up: https://scenerecap.com/s/demo We'll be here all day. Tell us where it breaks.

Hunter

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2mo ago

Update: the Chrome extension is now live on the Chrome Web Store — https://chromewebstore.google.co.... One click to record a tab with the click/navigation log; uploading any screen recording from the dashboard still works without it. The open bugs we've reproduced and explained so far are at https://scenerecap.com/explained — thanks to everyone who tried it.

1mo ago