One take. A video and a guide.

Record a single browser tab, a whole display, or one application window. The Mac app follows your clicks in every app. The Chrome extension follows them on web pages.

Add your voice and your face. Your camera is a bubble on every plan, and Studio puts it in any of 15 layouts.

Press ⌥⇧D while recording and circle, point at, box or highlight what you are talking about, in seven colours. It fades three seconds after you stop. Free in the Mac app and in Chrome.

Drag out any part of a page for a still, and take it straight into the screenshot editor.

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S ends the take from any tab, without hunting for the one you are recording.

A recording cut short by a closed tab or a crash is still there. The library notices and offers to recover it.

The pointer is sampled 120 times a second while you record. Clicks close together in time and space become one timed, eased move.

Every move starts a second before the click and lands before it does. Scroll flings are skipped.

Each move lands between 1.5× and 2.5×, depending on how spread out the clicks are. Tight work punches in. Broad work keeps its context.

The webcam bubble crosses to the opposite corner so it never sits on the click you just made. On by default.

Every generated zoom is an ordinary timeline block. Drag it, deepen it, aim it at the pointer, keyframe it, or add your own from the timeline, anywhere in the take.

Zoom strength, click marks, captions and their size, hiding something, the background, frame, window, camera and your voice, each a row. Its timeline splits, cuts and adds a zoom, a cover or a callout.

Every setting in seven areas, from Scene to Brand & Export, one section open at a time. The editor remembers the mode you used last.

Press ⌘K in either mode and type a thing on screen, or a problem like “silence”. Each result says where it lives, and ↵ opens it with the setting lit.

Simple opens on what was done for you, and offers what it found and did not do, like long pauses, for you to take or leave.

Save a look and wear it on the next video. Twelve to start from, one for each kind of video, from Standard to Ink.

Click anything on the preview (the recording, the captions, your logo, a callout, and on Studio your camera) and its own settings open beside it, in Simple or in Pro. Drag it to move it, and it snaps into line with the frame and everything round it.

Looping scenes drawn frame by frame, each in six moods with colours you can change, and mesh backdrops that drift, swirl or breathe. The loop fits the length of your video.

Pick a backdrop from the wallpaper shelf, pad the take, round the corners, and cast a real shadow that sets it into the scene, soft or lit from an angle.

A clean browser or window frame around the take, drawn rather than captured, with an address bar that follows your recording.

An animated colour ring that hugs the frame’s rounded edge, inside, outside or both. Choose a palette, a width and a halo. The camera bubble wears the same light. Part of Studio.

Nine silhouettes, from the system arrow to a disc that never covers what it points at, with seven ready-made colour ramps for the body or the rim, and gradient or spectrum fills of your own. Size, smoothing and shadow each have a setting.

Upload a PNG, or a GIF that plays, and it becomes the pointer: your logo, a pencil, a laser dot. Drag and scale it inside the pointer’s square, then click the spot it points from.

As recorded, the pointer changes with the page: a hand over links, an I-beam over text. Pick another shape for any of those moments, keep one shape for the whole video, or hide the pointer while you type.

Each click leaves a mark you size and colour yourself: an orb, a ring, a press that dents the picture, or a ripple that runs through it. In Chrome and in the Mac app.

Dim everything outside a soft circle under the pointer, with its own radius and blur, so the eye goes where you are working.

One switch highlights what is about to be clicked, a moment before every click: the rest dims, softens and greys, and the button floats up. Or draw a box round anything. Seven looks, worn by every highlight, and any one can keep its own.

A saved Style keeps the pointer, its shapes and the pictures of your own they use, so the next video starts with the same one. A Style shared as a file carries them too.

Three bubbles, two cards that lean on the recording, six ways to share the frame, you alone two ways, and the screen alone. Each is drawn from the frame, so a tall or square video keeps its design.

A layout card on the timeline is a stretch where the frame is arranged differently, eased in and out over 450 ms. Double-click the Layout lane to start one.

Click the recording on the preview, or on Studio your camera, and drag it anywhere, or pull a corner to resize it. It snaps to the frame’s edges, centre and thirds, and to the other one.

On Studio, and on by default there: smaller in a corner while a close-up holds, out of the way of a click, and beside the recording when the screen goes quiet. It can also open and close the video on you.

A circle, a rounded square or a square, with a ring and a shadow. A card beside the recording can take the recording’s own corners.

The camera records beside the screen, in the Mac app and in Chrome, so every layout can still be changed after the take.

Drag the ends, marquee out a mistake, split with S, and ramp anything slow from 0.25× to 8×.

Text, arrows and boxes on their own lane, with real typography, drop shadows and bowed arrows. Placed at the playhead and dragged on the canvas.

Blur, pixelate or cover anything for exactly as long as it is on screen. The recorder notices password and card fields and offers to cover them, and a redaction follows the page as it scrolls.

Close the frame onto a detail as a timed move, or set the whole piece to 16:9, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 4:3 or 21:9 for wherever it’s going.

Stitch takes and title cards into one piece, reorder them as chips, and cut, dissolve, wipe or slide between them.

Keyframe the camera, the framing and more. One easing model keeps every move consistent across the piece.

Ring off a range and let it repeat while you adjust it, so a two-second move is judged on the tenth pass rather than the first.

A speech model on your computer writes captions from your voice, timed word by word. Show them in the picture a line or one word at a time, on a dark, light or glass plate, or save an SRT file beside the video for YouTube’s own captions.

Mic, tab audio, click ticks, key taps and music sit on separate faders, so the mix is a few drags rather than a re-record.

Twelve public-domain loops, calm to upbeat, run as long as your video without a seam, and ducking pulls the music down while you speak.

A library of pointer clicks and keystroke taps, synthesised rather than sampled, so they stay crisp at any length.

One step per click, each already saying what you clicked, like Click “Billing”, plus a closing step that shows where you ended up. Change any words, and reset a step to its own line whenever you like.

Each step is framed close around what you clicked, so the app’s own text is readable on the page, or shows the whole screen when that says more.

Every step’s picture carries a box that hugs what you pressed, or a ring or a spot, numbered if you like. Push in toward it or dim everything around it. Each is one control.

Group steps under headings, add a tip, a warning or a note to any step, each in a colour you choose, and add steps that are only words.

Anything you hid in the video stays hidden in every step it shows up in, and you can cover more from the guide’s own timeline.

Each step’s picture sits in the same scene the video gets, and its marker, spotlight and zoom follow the guide’s settings unless you give that step its own.

See the guide as its web page, right in the editor, before any file is made.

Your typeface, sizes and colours, bound into a PDF, a .docx you can keep editing, a web page that comes as a folder with its pictures for any site, or Markdown with its pictures for a docs site. Or copy it and paste it into a document.

On the web page, each step that clicks something plays a short clip of its click in place of its picture, cut from the same take. The PDF and the Word file keep the pictures.

The wallpaper shelf, padding, corner radius and shadow the videos get, applied to a single image.

Drop numbered badges on the parts that matter; restack them and the numbers follow without a pass of manual fixing.

Bowed arrows with real heads and tails, boxes, and text with the typeface, weight and alignment you choose.

Blur, pixelate or cover, sampled from the finished picture underneath, so a cover never gives away what it hides.

Trim the edges, duplicate or reorder any layer, then copy straight to the clipboard or export a PNG at 1×, 2× or 3×.

MP4, WebM, GIF or a PNG still. Up to 1080p free, and 4K at 60 fps on Studio, encoded on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded to produce it.

Drop an MP4, WebM, MOV or MKV into the library and the whole editor applies: framing, callouts, cuts, export.

Every take, edit and guide stays on your computer, in your browser’s own storage or the Mac app’s. Reopen a project months later without an account.