Screen Studio 4.0 released
Beautiful screen recordings, in minutes.
The screen recorder for Mac that handles the hard parts: zooms, motion, sound, and framing. Every demo and tutorial comes out polished.
Made with Screen Studio.
Thousands of people use it for product demos, courses, tutorials, and social posts.
Focus
Nothing stays too small to read.
In Screen Studio, zooms are the easy part. Place them yourself, or let them follow what happens on screen.
Every zoom is beautifully balanced and animated. Show it as a classic zoom, or through a glass loupe that leaves the rest of the frame in place.
Adding a zoom is as easy as dropping it on the timeline. Every animation is created automatically.
Post-processing and upscaling built for screen recordings keep everything sharp, even when you zoom in close.
Every zoom is beautifully balanced and animated. Show it as a classic zoom, or through a glass loupe that leaves the rest of the frame in place.
Adding a zoom is as easy as dropping it on the timeline. Every animation is created automatically.
Post-processing and upscaling built for screen recordings keep everything sharp, even when you zoom in close.
Smart framing. Zooms are balanced so your webcam never covers the cursor.
Automatic or by hand. Auto zoom follows your clicks, and you can place your own zooms right alongside.
Movement that feels filmed, not captured.
Raw cursor paths are smoothed. Fast motion picks up a natural blur. Clicks can ripple. And you can change the cursor after you stop recording.
Optics-based motion blur makes every quick move look far smoother, the way a camera films it.
Shaky movement becomes a steady glide, without looking artificial.
A quiet circle or ripple, so every tap is easy to follow. Sound is optional.
Make it larger, clearer, or a different style in the editor.
Optics-based motion blur makes every quick move look far smoother, the way a camera films it.
Shaky movement becomes a steady glide, without looking artificial.
A quiet circle or ripple, so every tap is easy to follow. Sound is optional.
Make it larger, clearer, or a different style in the editor.
Loops cleanly. The cursor can glide back to where it started, so a looping video never jumps.
Hides when idle. When the cursor rests, it steps out of view until you move it again.
Recording
Ready when you are.
Pick what to show, bring your camera and voice along, and press record.
A whole display, one app’s window, or just the area that matters.
Bring your camera and microphone, plus your Mac’s sound from every app or only the ones you pick.
Pause for a breath, start the take over, or call it off, right from the recording widget.
Snap the window to a preset size, hide your desktop icons, and read speaker notes that never appear in the recording.
A whole display, one app’s window, or just the area that matters.
Bring your camera and microphone, plus your Mac’s sound from every app or only the ones you pick.
Pause for a breath, start the take over, or call it off, right from the recording widget.
Snap the window to a preset size, hide your desktop icons, and read speaker notes that never appear in the recording.
Never lose a take. Recordings are written to disk every two seconds. Even if your Mac loses power, you can recover the take.
Light on your Mac. Built on Apple’s native ScreenCaptureKit, so your Mac stays responsive while you record.
Editing
Fix what you said in the transcript.
Your words become a transcript on your Mac. Delete a sentence to cut it. Clear filler words and long pauses in one pass. Trim and speed up the rest when you need to.
Edit by transcript. If you wouldn’t say it twice, you shouldn’t have to scrub for it twice. - In productionFiller wordsA Notion tutorial full of “um”, where one pass strips the fillers and tightens the pauses.
v-filler-wordsFiller words & pauses. Um, uh, and the silence between thoughts are shortened without a second take. 
Cut & speed. Trim the ends, cut the middle, speed up the slow parts. Still simple on purpose. 
Crop. Record the whole display, then keep only the part that matters.
Your camera, your screen, or both.
Open full-screen to introduce an idea, go split to walk through it, tuck into a corner while you click, then step onto the stage as a cutout. One recording holds as many layouts as the story needs, and the transitions animate for you.
Layouts in this video
Fullscreen camera
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Camera cutout. Your background removed on your Mac, so you can stand right next to your UI.
Hide during silence. When you stop talking, the camera steps aside, and it comes back when you speak again.
Face tracking. Your Mac keeps the picture centered on your face as you move.
Voice that sounds like you meant it.
Your microphone as it was, with the keyboard and the room still in it.
Record with the microphone you have, and Screen Studio cleans it up afterward on your Mac: less keyboard, less room, more you.
Noise reduction. Fans, keyboards, and the hallway turned down, while your voice keeps its character.
Podcast. Made for lessons and walkthroughs, where the voice carries the video.
On your Mac. The processing runs locally. Your voice isn’t uploaded anywhere to be cleaned up.
Captions that keep up with the story.
Generate a transcript and turn it into captions. Choose type and motion that fit the piece. Transcribe on your Mac, and your audio doesn’t need to leave it.
Three typefaces. Sans, serif, or mono, sized and colored to match.
Line by line, or word by word. Show whole lines, or let each spoken word push the last one out.
Words that arrive. Appear, fade, or slide in as they’re said.
Style
Make it look like it belongs to you.
Backgrounds, padding, and shadow, tuned to your brand. Save it as a preset, and the next video matches the last, whether it’s yours or your whole team’s.
A macOS wallpaper, a gradient, your image, or a photo from Unsplash, blurred as much as you like.
Set the shadow’s angle, distance, and softness, and inset the recording within its frame.
Save the whole look and share it with your team, so every video stays consistent without a style guide PDF.
A macOS wallpaper, a gradient, your image, or a photo from Unsplash, blurred as much as you like.
Set the shadow’s angle, distance, and softness, and inset the recording within its frame.
Save the whole look and share it with your team, so every video stays consistent without a style guide PDF.
Any aspect ratio
Record once. Post everywhere.
One take becomes the wide demo, the square post, and the vertical story. Switch whenever you like, and zooms, layouts, and captions adjust themselves to every shape.
Reel mode
In a vertical project, Reel mode lays Instagram’s or TikTok’s buttons over the preview, so you can check that nothing important ends up underneath them.
Zooms re-aim. They’re worked out from your clicks as the video renders, so they land in the right spot in any frame.
Layouts rearrange. Your screen and camera find their places in the new shape on their own.
Captions stay put. Captions and shortcuts stay where you placed them, whatever the shape.
iPhone and iPad, framed for you.
Connect your device and record. Screen Studio detects the model and places the capture in the right frame, ready for app demos without a separate mobile toolchain.
Just a cable. Connect over USB and pick the device in the recording bar. There’s nothing to install on it.
The same editor. Trim, caption, and export a device recording like any other.
Sharing
From stop to shared in seconds.
Copy a video into Slack. Send a link that’s ready to paste while the upload finishes. Export with sensible presets for the web, social, or another editor.
v-share-linkShareable links
Send it the moment you stop.
Paste the link while the upload finishes. It plays as soon as someone opens it.
Links play in 1080p at 60 fps, for videos up to 30 minutes. Viewers comment on the exact second they mean, and you choose whether a link is public or private.
Clipboard
Paste it where the conversation is.
Copy the finished video and drop it straight into Slack, Linear, or a doc.
The video pastes like anything else you copy. You don’t need to find a file or wait for an upload.
v-exportExport
MP4 up to 4K, or a GIF.
Pick Studio, Social Media, or Web quality, and the technical settings follow.
MP4 in 720p, 1080p, or 4K at up to 60 fps, and small looping GIFs up to 1080p. The quality you pick never slows an export down.
v-share-projectShared projects
Hand over the whole thing.
Send the editable project, so a teammate can keep working on it.
Projects up to 20 GB travel as a single download, with zooms, cuts, and layouts included.
Masks
Hide what’s private.
Highlight what matters.
Mask secrets after you record. Masks sample the picture around them, so they stay in the scene. Or dim everything but the region you want people to notice.
Cover an API key or an email address after the fact, and the mask blends into the UI around it.
Everything but one region softens, so the eye goes straight there.
Cover an API key or an email address after the fact, and the mask blends into the UI around it.
Everything but one region softens, so the eye goes straight there.
Privacy
Your recordings stay yours.
Screen Studio does its work on your Mac. Nothing you record leaves it unless you send it, and when you do, you’ll know where it’s going.
On your Mac
Recordings and projects. Saved on your Mac, wherever you keep them.
Transcripts and captions. Transcribed locally, with Whisper or Apple’s speech recognition.
Voice enhancement. Noise reduction and Podcast mode run on-device.
Face tracking and cutouts. Your camera is framed and cut out by your Mac.
Enhancements and export. Debanding, super resolution, and encoding all happen on your Mac.
Only when you choose
Shareable links. Uploaded when you create one. You’re asked before the first upload.
Shared projects. Sent when you share a project with someone.
Cloud transcription. Optional. The audio is deleted from the server once the transcript is back.
AI voiceover. The text you type is sent to generate the voice.
Whenever something is about to leave your Mac, Screen Studio tells you right where you choose it.
Usage analytics never include the content of your recordings, and you can turn them off in Settings anytime.
And a whole lot more.
The small things that add up. All included.
Pause and resume
Stop mid-take, tidy up, and carry on in the same recording.
Speaker notes
Your talking points on screen while you record.
Countdown
A few seconds to get ready before the recording starts.
One shortcut
Start and stop a recording from anywhere on your Mac.
Crash recovery
If something goes wrong mid-take, the recording is recovered.
Import any video
Bring in a video from elsewhere and edit it like a recording.
Designed to feel at home on a Mac.
Built for the machine you already work on: fast enough to stay out of your way, and careful enough that the details hold up when someone watches full screen.
Built for Apple silicon. Recording, editing, and export all run natively on M‑series Macs.
Captured by macOS. Screen Studio records with ScreenCaptureKit, the system’s own capture, so it stays smooth even on big displays.
Hardware encoding. Exports run on your Mac’s media engine, so a 4K video doesn’t take all afternoon.
In their words.
Screen Studio helps thousands of people show what they make.
Pricing
Everything included.
One product. Every feature on this page comes with your subscription. There’s no maze of plans for zooms, captions, or exports.
Students and educators get 40% off. Request a discount
Questions & answers.
Something else on your mind? Get in touch.
Screen Studio records your screen differently than most apps.
It records your screen, ignoring the mouse cursor, and then adds the cursor back in the final video. This is possible because Screen Studio records precise mouse movement data and synchronizes it with the recorded video.
Thanks to this, it can apply many effects after the video is recorded, such as making mouse movement smooth, changing cursor size and shape, etc.
Most screen recording apps record your screen with the mouse cursor, making it impossible to apply cursor effects after the recording is done.
Yes.
Screen Studio never sends data about your recordings to servers.
Your recordings are stored and processed locally on your computer.
AI-based features, such as transcription, are done locally on your computer.
Screen Studio can collect basic usage data to help us improve the app, but you can opt out of it during the first launch. You can also opt out at any time in the app settings.
Yes.
If you have an email address from a university or other educational institution, you can automatically get a 40% discount on Screen Studio at Request Educational Discount page.
If you don't have an educational email address, you can send us confirmation of your student status (such as a student ID) at team@screen.studio and we will send you a discount code.
Please check out the roadmap page.
macOS Ventura 13.1 or higher is recommended.
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Your license is of course still valid.
If your access to the latest updates and features is expired, you can still renew your license at any time to restore your access to the latest updates and features.
Note: purchasing one-time licenses was possible in the past, but is no longer available for new purchases.