Screen recording with smart auto‑zoom.
The camera follows your cursor and clicks. Beautiful backdrops, a bold cursor, multi‑clip editing, export to MP4 or GIF. Screenshots, markup and stitching too — all from one menu‑bar app.
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Recording
Everything your tutorial video needs to look professional.
No heavy post‑production — effects are rendered live while you record, at 60fps.
Auto‑zoom that follows your cursor
Zooms where you click, pans smoothly with spring physics, and zooms back out when you pause. Pick the zoom level and the idle delay; set 1.0× to turn it off.
Backdrop, corners, shadow
Three backdrops — Midnight, Sunset, Graphite — with padding and rounded corners, like a product shot.
Bold cursor
Cursor redrawn to match zoom, with a ripple on every click.
Keystroke overlay
The keys you press appear as a pill at the bottom of the frame, right in the video.
NewWebcam overlay
Three sizes, three shapes — circle, rounded, square — four corners, mirror on or off.
Synced audio, pick your mic
Record system audio, the microphone or both, frame‑accurate. Choose which mic to use and watch the level meter to be sure your voice is coming through.
NewCountdown, pause, discard
A 3, 5 or 10 second countdown gives you time to get ready. While recording, a floating bar shows elapsed time and lets you pause, resume, stop or discard — and it never shows up in the video.
Full screen, region or window
Record a whole display, drag out a region, or pick a single window. Works across several monitors, and the shortcut always targets the screen you are working on.
Draw on screen while you record
One shortcut lets you draw over the screen you are recording: arrows, boxes, pen, highlighter, text and stickers. Undo and redo freely; the ink is part of the video.
Lives in the menu bar
One small icon opens a quick panel with Record and Capture tabs; it turns red while recording. Set‑once options live in their own Settings window.
Export
One recording, every place you post.
Pick the format, resolution and framing right in the export sheet — no other app needed.
Multi‑clip timeline editor
Split, cut out the boring parts, duplicate, drag to reorder, trim clip edges with thumbnails. Undo/redo, shortcuts, frame‑by‑frame stepping.
MP4, MOV or GIF
MP4 H.264 plays anywhere, MOV HEVC keeps files smaller, or GIF for short how‑tos — with fps, max width and infinite looping.
NewFraming for social
Keep the original frame, or centre‑crop to 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:3 for YouTube, Reels, TikTok or a blog post.
NewOriginal, 1080p or 720p
Scale down for a lighter file; never upscaled beyond the source.
Keep or mute audio
One switch for a silent export when you embed it in a doc.
Choose where, cancel anytime
The familiar macOS save panel, with a progress percentage and a cancel button.
Screenshots
Capture, annotate, compose — without leaving the keyboard.
Same app, one shortcut. Every shot pops up as a floating card so you can copy, mark up or stitch it with others.
Full markup, including redaction
Arrow, box, ellipse, pen, highlighter, text, auto‑numbered badges, blur for sensitive areas and cropping. Select to move or delete any item, with undo and redo on the keyboard.
Full screen · Region · Window
Drag to select a region, or hover a window — it lights up, click to capture. Press Space to switch mode mid‑selection, Esc to cancel. Works across monitors at full Retina resolution.
3 modesSelf‑timer
Wait 3, 5 or 10 seconds so you can open a menu or tooltip before the shot.
NewMulti‑shot stitch tray
Collect shots in a tray, lay them out vertically, horizontally, in a grid, bento or free‑form, drop them on a Midnight / Sunset / Graphite or transparent backdrop, annotate and export one image. The tray survives quitting the app, and you can drag in or paste outside images.
Floating card after capture
Copy, save, mark up, send to tray, open in another app — or drag it straight into Finder, Slack or email.
PNG, JPEG or HEIC
Pick the format and quality level; auto‑copies to the clipboard for instant pasting.
Straight to the tray
Flip one option and every shot lands in the tray; turn off auto‑opening to shoot several in a row uninterrupted.
Small comforts
Set it once, keep it.
The things you should never have to think about twice.
~/Movies/ScreenStudio/~/Pictures/- Remembers every setting Capture mode, zoom level, backdrop, webcam, audio, image format — reopen the app and everything is exactly as you left it.
- Your own save folders Choose where videos and screenshots go in
Settings. Turn on launch at login so the app is always in your menu bar. - No account, no tracking Everything happens on your Mac. The app only goes online to check for updates.
Install
Three steps and you're recording.
Lives in your menu bar. No drivers, no account.
Open the DMG, drag to Applications
Launch from Launchpad or Spotlight. The “7” icon appears in your menu bar.
Follow the permission guide
On first launch the app shows a checklist — Screen Recording, Input Monitoring, plus optional microphone, camera and notifications — each with a button that opens the right System Settings pane.
Hit the shortcut to record
Pick a source and press ⌥⌘R, or just ⌥⌘1 to record the screen you are on. When you stop, the editor opens so you can trim and export.
Shortcuts
The whole app under ten fingers.
Every mode has its own key that fires instantly — no panel needed. All of them are remappable, and the app warns you if a combo is already taken.
Stuck in a selection overlay or the annotation layer? ⌥⌘0 puts your Mac back to normal at once.
Always the latest version.
The app checks on launch and tells you with a macOS notification plus a dot on the menu‑bar icon when a new build is ready — one click to upgrade, no need to come back here.
Guides
How to do the things macOS won't do for you.
Short, practical guides — including what to check when something does not work.
Record system audio
Capture internal sound with no virtual driver, and how to fix a silent take.
macOS permissions
Screen Recording and Input Monitoring: where to grant them, symptom by symptom.
Export a GIF
Frame rate, width, looping — and how to shrink a file that came out too big.
Capture and annotate
Number your steps, blur sensitive data, stitch several shots into one image.
Download it and record something.
Free while in beta: no watermark, no time limit, no export limit, no account.