Capnot

Key facts: Capnot launched on Product Hunt on November 6, 2026, built solo under the name Tiny Ship Sailors. It sits in your menu bar and puts captions, annotations and pointer tools on top of whatever app you are in: a subtitle bar, a dialogue box with your name and face, or a bubble that follows your cursor, or just talk and live captions type for you using on-device macOS speech recognition. Draw arrows, boxes and numbered steps, blur anything secret, then spotlight or magnify the part that matters, each tool one hotkey away. It does not record anything itself: it works with QuickTime, OBS, Loom, Zoom, Meet or whatever you already use.

Plans: $12.99 one-time, with a 7-day free trial and no card needed. No subscription. macOS 13 or later.

Best for: Anyone who records demos, walkthroughs or silent tutorials on a Mac. Who should skip it: anyone who wants a recorder with a built-in editor.

Pros

• One-time $12.99 purchase: no subscription, no recurring fee
• Live captions from on-device speech recognition, so no audio leaves your Mac
• Caption, annotation and pointer toolkits included, each one hotkey away
• Works with any recorder or screen share you already use, with no editing afterwards

Watch out for

• Mac only, on macOS 13 or later, with no Windows version
• It does not record anything itself: you still need QuickTime, OBS, Loom or similar
• No timeline editor for annotations after they are drawn

Best for

Anyone who records demos, walkthroughs or silent tutorials on a Mac. Who should skip it: anyone who wants a recorder with a built-in editor, or a Windows user.

Pricing

$12.99 one-time. 7-day free trial, no card. No subscription. macOS 13+.

FAQs

What is Capnot? A Mac menu bar app that puts live captions, annotations and pointer tools on top of any app, so a screen demo still makes sense with the sound off.

How much does it cost? $12.99 one-time, with a 7-day free trial and no card needed. No subscription.

Does it record my screen? No. Capnot does not record anything itself; it works with QuickTime, OBS, Loom, Zoom, Meet or whatever you already use.

Where does the live captioning happen? On your Mac, using on-device macOS speech recognition, so no audio is sent to the cloud.