Privacy-friendly bot-detection challenge service, marketed as a Google reCAPTCHA alternative.
Found via: Product Hunt 128 · Hacker News 7 · PeerPush 9 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 25 · StackScope Wider Web 50
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hCaptcha has been detected on 25 launches we've crawled, with 24 of those in July 2026 (0.1% of the month's launches so far). Most recent detection: Forma — Train clean. Live strong., 4 days ago.
It's most commonly paired with HSTS, Cloudflare, and Cloudflare DNS. By product type, the launches using it are most often AI (28%), Developer Tools (17%), and Health (17%).
What kind of products ship with hCaptcha
18 launches
Share of new launches using hCaptcha
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average. Chart starts at first detection.
How StackScope detects technologies
⋮ Jun 22, 2026: Improved detection coverage for this technology.
Captcha leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
|
2.58% | 95.52% | |
| #2 |
|
0.13% | 4.66% | |
| #3 |
|
0.01% | 0.19% | |
| #4 |
|
0.01% | 0.19% |
Percentages show adoption among launches found via StackScope Discovery: the share of all such launches, and of those using any Captcha tool. All 4 in Captcha →
Most recent of 25 launches using hCaptcha found via StackScope Discovery
Showing the most recent 12 of 25 found via StackScope Discovery.