A video with the close-ups already placed, and a step-by-step guide you can export as PDF, Word, a web page or Markdown. Any frame of the take can also be opened in the screenshot editor and finished as a picture.

No. Your video opens with the close-ups placed on your clicks and every click marked, ready to export. Simple mode shows what was done and the choices most videos make, one click each. Pro mode lays out every setting, and ⌘K finds any of them by what it changes or by a problem, like “silence”.

Yes. Export an MP4 at up to 1080p and 30 fps free, or up to 4K at 60 fps with Studio. Captions are made on your computer, and can go in the picture or into an SRT file beside the video for YouTube’s own captions. Studio also records your camera: a bubble in a corner, a column beside the screen or the whole frame, changed at any moment in the video.

Yes. Pick the Shorts style: it sets the video to 9:16, crops in to follow your pointer, and adds big word-by-word captions. For LinkedIn and Instagram feeds, the Feed style sets 4:5 with the captions under the picture. Any video can also be square or another shape.

Yes. Press ⌥⇧D and draw with a pen, a highlighter, arrows, boxes or circles, in the Mac app or in Chrome, free. The drawing fades three seconds after your last stroke, or stays until you clear it.

Yes, in the Mac app. It draws the pointer after you record, so you can pick another one or upload a PNG, or a GIF that plays. Fit it into the pointer’s square, click the spot it points from, and choose whether it hides while you type. A Style keeps it for your next video. In Chrome the pointer is part of the recording, and every click is still marked.

It writes the first draft. Every click becomes a numbered step that already says what you clicked, like Click “Billing”, with a close-up of the screen and a box around what you pressed, plus a last step showing where you ended up. Change any words, add sections, tips and warnings, and drop the steps you don’t need. In the Mac app the names come from Accessibility, which it asks for when you record a guide.

You export files: the video as MP4, WebM or GIF, the guide as PDF, Word, a web page or Markdown, and pictures as PNG. The web page comes as a folder with its pictures, ready to put on any site, and the guide can also be copied and pasted into a document. Nothing goes through a PointerCam server, so there is no share link.

Both apps, the editor, the guide and the screenshot tools are free. Free videos run up to 10 minutes and guides any length, your camera comes along as a bubble, exports go up to 1080p at 30 fps, and videos and guides carry a small PointerCam mark. Screenshots come out clean. Studio removes the mark, lifts the limits, opens every camera layout and adds guides whose steps move. Studio is $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year), or $20 month to month, at a launch price kept for as long as you stay subscribed. A 7-day pass is $9, paid once. Subscription payments can be refunded within 14 days, and so can a pass whose key has never been entered.

On the free plan, a small PointerCam mark sits in a corner of your videos and guides. Screenshots come out clean. Studio removes it, or puts your own logo in its place.

No. Recording, editing and exporting all happen on your computer, and there is no server that could receive a recording. You can watch the network panel while you export to check. The details are on the privacy page.

No. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.

Use the Mac app when you show more than a browser. It records any app or window with system audio, follows your clicks in every app, and draws the pointer after the take, so you can restyle it or use your own. Use the extension when what you show is in Chrome. It records a tab, a window or your whole screen, and follows your clicks on web pages, which is where its close-ups and guide steps come from. Both open the same editor.

No. Chrome lets an extension see your pointer only on web pages. When you record a window or your whole screen from Chrome, every app is in the video, but clicks in other apps and on Chrome’s own toolbar are not tracked, so those parts get no automatic close-ups, click marks or guide steps. You can add a close-up anywhere from the timeline. The Mac app follows your clicks in every app.

Yes. Open an MP4, WebM, MOV or MKV and use the whole editor on it. Automatic close-ups and the guide need the click track that PointerCam’s own recorders capture, but you can add a zoom anywhere from the timeline.