Free for Mac macOS 14 or later

Screen recordings that direct themselves.

Screenmu zooms in where you click and type, glides your cursor and frames it all on a beautiful background. You just hit record, and every zoom stays yours to edit.

Download for Mac How it works
  • Free
  • No account
  • No watermark
  • Stays on your Mac
An animated example. In a to-do app, the pointer ticks an item and the view zooms in on it, follows the text as a new item is typed, then eases back out while the webcam bubble shrinks out of the way. A switch above it shows the same recording without Screenmu.
Zoom2.0× auto
Inputtyping
Mic

Scene 01How it works

You present.
Screenmu directs.

No keyframes and no timeline homework. Record the way you always do, and the camera work is waiting for you when you stop.

  1. 01 · Record

    Hit record

    Choose a display, a window or any area, and bring your camera and microphone if you like. Screenmu waits in your menu bar until you need it.

  2. 02 · Direct

    It plans every shot

    Stop, and your recording opens with zooms already placed on your clicks and typing, a gliding cursor and a background. Each zoom arrives just as the moment happens.

  3. 03 · Export

    Tweak, then share

    Move, stretch or delete any zoom, cut out the mistakes and pick a shape. Then export, faster than the video plays.

Scene 02Studio

Make it look like you meant it.

Backgrounds, padding, round corners, shadows, every common shape and a camera bubble. These are the app’s real controls with its own presets, so go on, have a play.

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16:9

Background
Shape
Camera

Or use a solid color, or an image of your own. In the app, the preview and the export are drawn by the same code, so what you see is what you get.

Scene 03Cursor

A cursor worth watching.

Real pointers jitter, dart and vanish into corners. Screenmu’s glides, leans into its turns, presses down when you click and keeps the real pointer shapes over text and links.

Title

My first recording

Made with

Screenmu
Publish Preview

Move your pointer around in here, and clickDrag your finger around in here

While you record, you can also highlight your pointer or pop open a magnifier with ⌘⇧M.

Scene 04Vertical stack

Landscape in.
Vertical out.

Flip one switch and Screenmu stacks your camera above your screen in a 9:16 frame, ready for vertical video. When it zooms in, your camera shrinks to give the screen more room, then comes back.

  • 16:9
  • 1:1
  • 4:3
  • 4:5
  • 3:4
  • 9:16

Scene 05Native

Fast, because it’s native.

Screenmu is written in Swift on Apple’s own frameworks for capture, video and graphics. No web views and no waiting around: it records light and exports quick.

Watching a 3½-minute recording 0:00
Exporting it on an M2 Mac 0:00

Exports finish before the video would. Shown at 20× speed.

  • 60 fpsat your display’s full Retina resolution
  • H.265by default, or H.264, saved as MOV or MP4
  • 2 tracksyour microphone and your Mac’s sound, kept apart
  • 0 bytesof your recordings leave your Mac. It works offline, always.

Scene 06Private

Your screen stays yours.

No account, no cloud and no analytics. Screenmu never uploads anything, so your recordings stay on your Mac until you decide to share them. The only thing it ever fetches is news of an update, and it asks you first.

Read the privacy page

Scene 07And also

Everything else in the box.

  • Display, window or area

    Record a whole display, one window or any area you drag out.

  • Windows, resized for you

    Snap a window to 16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 1:1 or 9:16 before you record.

  • Talking Head

    Just you and your camera, no screen, for intros and updates.

  • Audio only

    Record your microphone, your Mac’s sound or both, each to its own file.

  • Follow typing

    Zooms follow your text cursor while you type, so every word is readable.

  • Highlight and magnifier

    Spotlight your pointer or magnify what is under it, live, while you record.

  • Countdown, pause, shortcuts

    Start on a countdown, pause with ⌘⇧P and stop with ⌘⇧S, from any app.

  • Cut, trim, undo

    Cut out the mistakes, trim the ends and undo anything you change.

  • Resizes, handled

    Resize a window halfway through and it stays neatly centered in the frame.

Final scenePricing

Free.
The whole thing.

Everything on this page is free. No account, no watermark, no time limit and no trial.

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Version 1.0.0 macOS 14 or later Apple silicon and Intel Notarized by Apple