Capture
Capture exactly what matters
Choose a full display, a single app window, or draw a precise area with microphone, system audio, camera, cursor, and click controls.
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The native
recorder
A native screen recorder and timeline editor built specifically for macOS. Capture full displays, app windows, or exact regions with hardware-accelerated framerate and crystal clarity. No accounts. No cloud uploads.
Native macOSSwift capture UI with system privacy flows
Local-firstRecordings and projects stay on your Mac
Open sourceApache 2.0 · Swift + Rust stack
Editor includedZooms, camera clips, cursor overlays, exports
Capture · Edit · Export
A native capture studio for polished demos, docs, and share-ready clips.
Edit
Shape the story on the timeline
Add manual or automatic zoom sections, split clips, tune playback speed, style cursor motion, and place facecam segments independently.
Export
Compose the final handoff
Crop and reframe videos for fixed aspect layouts, compose screenshots on styled backgrounds, and export MOV, MP4, GIF, or PNG outputs.
Built for repeated work
Every capture moves through one calm, local flow.
No accounts, no uploads, no cloud processing. Everything lives in your Movies and Pictures folders, organised by project.
01
Choose the source
Pick a display, window, or hand-drawn region with a capture flow built natively for macOS.
02
Record or screenshot
Save clips to Movies and screenshots to Pictures with project metadata created automatically.
03
Edit the timeline
Refine clips with trims, speed changes, zoom effects, cursor overlays, and independently controlled camera segments.
04
Export or compose
Export MOV, MP4, GIF, or PNG assets with crop and aspect controls, styled backgrounds, and screenshot composition.
Local-first architecture
Swift where the Mac matters. Rust where durability matters.
A native Swift UI layer engineered for macOS privacy and ScreenCaptureKit, paired with a durable Rust core for metadata, indexing, and fast exports.
Swift app
Capture UI, editor timeline, screenshot composition, Finder integration
Rust service
Project metadata, path handling, screenshot indexing, exports
Local paths
~/Movies/Open Recorder, ~/Pictures/Open Recorder, and local project files
Open source on GitHub
Make your next product demo feel finished.