RecordStudio

Screen recordings people can follow.

Record what you do on your Mac. RecordStudio zooms in where you click, frames the video and writes the captions, so your walkthrough is ready to share a few minutes after you stop recording.

Download for macOS

Free · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

The RecordStudio editor. A recording of a task list app, framed on a graphite background and zoomed in on a checked item, with a caption. Below it, a timeline with chapters, captions and two zooms; on the right, settings for the look.

The editor, with the sample project that comes with the app.

How it works

From your screen to a video worth sending.

You do the demo once. The editing that usually takes an evening is done before you open the editor.

Record the way you already work.

Pick a screen, a window or an area, then press Record. Talk over it, put your face in a corner, or read your notes from a teleprompter that viewers never see. ⌃⌥⌘R starts a recording from any app.

Viewers look where you clicked.

Every click becomes a smooth zoom toward it, and the camera eases back out when you move on. A wide screen squeezed onto a phone stays readable, because the part that matters fills the frame.

Cut the waiting, keep the point.

Trim the start, play the slow part four times faster, and add captions written from what you said, on your Mac. Chapters mark each step. The original recording is never changed, so you can always go back.

0:00.0 / 0:19.6

Send it where people will watch it.

MP4 for chat and the web, HEVC when size matters, WebM, or a GIF for a pull request. Subtitles, a transcript and a poster image can come with it. Press ⌘E and pick a format.

The Export window: MP4, HEVC, WebM or GIF, the size and quality, a name, where to save it, and checkboxes for subtitles, a transcript, a poster image and a summary.

Privacy

What you record stays on your Mac.

Screen recordings show your mail, your code and your customers. RecordStudio keeps them in your Movies folder and nowhere else.

Local files

Recordings, edits and exports live in ~/Movies/RecordStudio. Time Machine backs them up with everything else.

No account

Open the app and record. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.

No telemetry

The app sends nothing about you or what you do. The one thing it asks the internet is whether a new version is out.

Captions on your Mac

Speech recognition runs on the Mac itself, so your voice is never uploaded to make a transcript.

Install

Recording in under a minute.

  1. Download the disk image

    Get the latest RecordStudio.dmg from GitHub releases.

  2. Drag RecordStudio to Applications

    Open the disk image. In the window that appears, drop RecordStudio on the Applications folder framed on the right.

  3. Open it

    A short Welcome window asks for the permissions it needs, one at a time, and says what each is for.

Requires
macOS 26 Tahoe or later
Runs on
Apple silicon and Intel Macs
Updates
Checks once a day and installs a new version when you agree
Price
Free
Download for macOS

Source

The code is on GitHub.

RecordStudio is written in Swift with Apple’s frameworks and nothing else. Read how it works, report a bug, or build your own copy.

# macOS 26 and Xcode 26 (or its Command Line Tools)
git clone https://github.com/kasapovicc/RecordStudio.git
cd RecordStudio
make run     # build, sign and open the app
make test    # run the tests

No packages are downloaded. WebM export also needs brew install ffmpeg.

Make the next demo the easy part.

Download for macOS

Free · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon and Intel