...takes screenshots and creates a video out of them to make a timelapse.

• Simple
• Minimal CPU usage
• Extendable

There are many alternative solutions available. Most of them fall into one of these categories:

• Commercial applications
• Custom scripts based on Automator and AppleScript
• Freeware

This project provides an Open-Source alternative that is both, easy to use and understand.

• macOS (any version)
• ffmpeg (run brew install ffmpeg)

First, install the project's dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now run the main application from the commmand-line:

python timelapse

After that, a new icon appears in the menubar.
By clicking on it, you start and stop the screen recording.

Once you've finished recording, timelapse will create a video for you
and print the output path to the commandline. You can now quit timelapse.

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.