...a little macOS app that records your screen to make a timelapse.
β€οΈ Looking for Maintainers
Are you a Python developer who could help with maintaining this project? We'd love to hear from you!
There are some critical open issues with this tool, which we need help with. Please take a look and reach out by replying to this issue or by sending in pull requests. Contributors will get maintainer rights after a while and the repository can be transitioned to a Github organization or a different user account. Thanks!
Features
- Simple
- Open Source
- Easy to access
- Low memory and CPU usage
- Follows the cursor across screens while recording
Getting started
- Make sure that you have
ffmpeginstalled (e.g. runbrew install ffmpeg). - Download timelapse
- Unzip and start the app. If you get a warning about the app being unsigned,
go to
System Preferences > Security & Privacyand allow the app to run. - A new icon appears in your menubar; start and stop the screen recording from
there.
timelapse will create a video for you in your Movies folder.
Development
If you like to help improve this app, make sure you have at least Python 3.6 installed. First, install the project's dependencies:
make installNow make changes and run the main application from the commandline:
make runLicense
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
App icon by gstudioimagen - www.freepik.com.