The macOS screen recorder for developers

Screen demos that zoom themselves

ZoomCap is an opinionated screen recorder that edits your video for you.

It zooms in where you click, redraws your cursor in smooth 60fps, captures system audio natively — and exports on your machine. Nothing uploaded, ever.

One click. It zoomed in on its own.

Made with ZoomCap

Recorded, zoomed, and exported with ZoomCap — untouched by any other editor.

Product demo — auto-zoomed

Terminal walkthrough — typing zoom

Feature clip — exported vertical

Automatic zoom for demos people actually follow.

Viewers can't read a 4K screen squeezed into a tweet. ZoomCap zooms in on the action for them — especially on small screens.

Automatic zoom

To keep the focus on the action, ZoomCap zooms in on the things you do — every click and burst of typing becomes a smooth, cinematic zoom. No keyframes, no timeline work.

Typing zoom

Start typing and ZoomCap glides in to where the text appears, holds while you write, and releases when you pause.

Manual zoom

Want a different moment? Add, re-aim, or delete any zoom in the editor. ZoomCap animates it for you either way.

Easy editing

All the heavy lifting is automatic. You drag, it animates — no manual work required.

Professional animations, by default.

Your raw cursor is jittery and tiny. ZoomCap re-renders it entirely at export — so every movement looks deliberate.

Smooth cursor movement

The real path of your pointer, redrawn in buttery 60fps. Shaky hand in, steady glide out.

Change cursor size after recording

Recorded with a tiny cursor? Scale it up in the editor — it's re-rendered, not stretched, so it stays razor sharp.

Change the cursor itself

Swap the pointer style and colour after the fact. Your recording, your cursor.

High-quality clicks

Every click gets a ripple and a satisfying sound — so viewers always know what just happened.

Add your style in seconds.

A raw screen recording looks like a screen recording. Thirty seconds in the editor makes it look like a launch video.

Padding, backgrounds & patterns

Put your recording on a stage — gradients, patterns, and spacing that make any app look expensive. macOS window frame included.

Horizontal or vertical

Export widescreen for YouTube or vertical for Shorts and Reels — crop and framing adjust to the format.

Cut & trim

Drop the fumbled start, the dead air, the wrong tab. Trim right on the timeline.

Speed up the boring parts

Long install? Slow build? Speed through it and keep the video tight.

Designed for macOS

Built on Apple’s native capture engine — 60fps recording with system audio, no virtual drivers, no kernel extensions.

System audio, natively

What your Mac plays and what you say, in sync. No Soundflower, no second take.

Exports at machine speed

Encoding runs faster than real time, in the background — switch tabs, it keeps going.

Nothing uploaded, ever

Recording, editing, and encoding all happen on your machine. There is no server to trust.

Honest comparison

We like Screen Studio.

It’s the reason this category exists. We built ZoomCap for the people who’d rather not install an app to make one video.

ZoomCap
Screen Studio
To start
One command in your terminal
Download and install an app
Zoom
Automatic — from clicks and typing
Automatic
Editor
Opens in your browser
Native Mac app
Your footage
Never leaves your machine
Stays on your Mac
Price
$12.49/mo, cancel anytime
One-time licence

Screen Studio is a trademark of its owner. Comparison reflects publicly documented behaviour and may change.

Pricing

Priced like a tool you’ll use every week.

$12.49 / month

cancel anytime · start free in the browser

  • Unlimited recordings & exports
  • The zoomcap CLI — 60fps, system audio, auto-zoom
  • The full editor — backgrounds, Mac frame, crop, captions
  • Fast background MP4 export, up to 1080p
Start recording — free
Guides

From the blog

All guides →

FAQ

Questions? Answered.

No. One terminal command runs the recorder without installing an app, and the editor opens in your browser. Prefer to skip the terminal? Record straight from the browser instead. See the download page for the exact steps.

While you record, ZoomCap tracks when you click and when you type. Those moments are clustered into smooth zooms that hold while you work and release when you pause — and you can re-aim or delete any of them in the editor.

Only their timing — never which keys. Keystroke timestamps drive the typing zoom; no key codes are captured or written to disk, so a recording can't leak what you typed.

Your machine, and nowhere else. The CLI saves to ~/Movies/ZoomCap and hands the file to the editor over localhost. Editing and encoding happen in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and there's no render queue.

The CLI is macOS 15+ (that's where native 60fps capture with system audio lives). The browser recorder works anywhere Chrome runs. Windows support is on the roadmap.

Yes. Your recordings are yours — product demos, tutorials, launch videos, client work. No restrictions, no watermark on paid plans.

H.264 MP4, encoded locally in your browser — the compatibility-first format for demos, downloads, and platform uploads. Keep that as your master; add WebM or a vertical cut only when the destination needs it.

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