Phia is a native macOS screen recorder designed for creating beautiful screen videos. It includes a lightweight timeline and applies intelligent zoom, smooth cursor motion, cinematic movement, and captions. New features like animated brand titles and flexible layouts with slides, text, images, and video help recordings feel polished and intentional, everything runs locally on your Mac and works offline.
Hello everyone,
I’m Zaid, the maker of Phia.
Phia started as a small Chrome extension because I personally struggled to make screen recordings look good without spending hours editing or paying for tools that were tied with expensive subscription paywalls. The community support on the first launch changed everything and helped me grow it into something real.
With that momentum, I finally built what I originally set out to create, a fully native macOS app. I chose to go native because I wanted real performance and freedom to build features properly, not compromises. Over the last 4 months, I’ve been working full-time on Phia for macOS, focusing on speed, polish, and that Apple-level experience.
Phia now includes features like: Brand titles, Animations, Slides & text layers, Custom asset layouts and more features designed specifically for screen-based presentations
One thing that mattered a lot to me was fair, affordable pricing. I wanted Phia to feel premium without being priced only for big teams or agencies.
This launch is just the beginning, there’s a lot more coming, and I’m excited to build it together with feedback from this community.
Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or questions.
Thanks so much for checking it out
Phia launched on Product Hunt on January 13th, 2026 and earned 250 upvotes and 41 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Phia is a native macOS screen recorder designed for creating beautiful screen videos. It includes a lightweight timeline and applies intelligent zoom, smooth cursor motion, cinematic movement, and captions. New features like animated brand titles and flexible layouts with slides, text, images, and video help recordings feel polished and intentional, everything runs locally on your Mac and works offline.
On the analytics side, Phia competes within Productivity and Social Media — topics that collectively have 738.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Phia performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Phia?
Phia was hunted by Zaid. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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