Capta

macOS 14+, Apple silicon · Notarized · Free

The screen recorder
that edits itself.

Record a demo of your app — talk it through, put yourself in the corner. Capta cuts the dead air, zooms in on what matters, captions your voice, and syncs every cut to your music. A finished product video, no timeline.

Download for macOS
Free · macOS 14+ (Apple silicon) · everything runs on your Mac
The Capta editor: live preview with camera bubble, filmstrip trim, music, and settings
The automatic edit

You click around. Capta directs the camera.

While you record, Capta watches your clicks, typing, and scrolling. Then it edits like a person who charges by the hour.

🎯

Smart zooms

Capta reads the UI element under every click and frames it with spring-damped camera moves — and when an app won't say what you clicked, Vision finds the dialog in the pixels and frames it whole. Restrained by design: the camera glides.

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Cuts & pacing

Capta cuts your dead air and fast-forwards typing and loading with eased speed ramps. It turns a minute of fumbling into thirty tight seconds.

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Beat-synced sound

Drop in any track. Capta detects its tempo on-device and lands every cut on the beat, adding click sounds, whooshes, and music ducking.

Apple Intelligence

Talk. It listens, cuts, and captions.

Capta now uses the Apple Intelligence models built into your Mac — so the smartest parts of the edit still happen without a single byte leaving your machine.

🎙️

Narrate your demo

Turn on the mic and just talk. Capta transcribes you on-device, burns in captions, keeps cuts and speed-ups away from your sentences, and ducks the music under your voice.

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Hero moments & chapters

The on-device model reads what you actually did, gives the payoff click the strongest zoom, and titles the chapters of your demo. One toggle, fully optional.

✍️

A copywriter in the box

One click writes the video's title, caption, and a social post from what happens on screen. What you type is never read — only what you clicked.

Everything else

Everything else in the box.

🖥️Screen, window, or area

Record the whole display, one app window, or a drag-selected region.

Live preview

Every setting applies instantly to a real-time preview. Export is the only render.

🎨52 backgrounds + yours

Gradients, radial glows, mesh wallpapers, and solids, or drop in any image behind your recording.

👆Cursor, perfected

Capta smooths and scales your cursor, adds click ripples and a pointer hand, and hides it when idle.

⌨️Keystroke display

Show pressed keys and shortcuts as chips that type out live. Off by default.

🎞️Filmstrip trim

Trim on a strip of real frame thumbnails, like the iPhone. Toggle any auto-zoom on or off.

📐Any canvas

16:9, vertical 9:16, or square, framed fit-on-background or crop-to-fill.

📸Screenshot studio

Capture, restyle with one-click presets, then annotate: arrows, highlights, blur-outs, numbered steps, spotlights.

📤Export anywhere

Up to 4K 60fps MP4, optimized GIF, or straight to the clipboard.

⌥⌘Made for the keyboard

⌥⌘R records from anywhere. ⌥⌘5 opens the capture panel. Menu-bar quick actions.

🔍Spotlight built in

Capta indexes every recording. Search "capta" system-wide and jump straight to it.

🔄Updates, on your terms

A manual Check for Updates fetches one version file — the app never phones home on its own.

🎥Camera bubble

Record your webcam alongside the screen — a floating circle, rounded card, or square in any corner.

🎼Music, included

Three built-in beat-locked tracks, free Creative-Commons search with preview, and a drag handle to pick the song section.

🔒100% on-device

Recording, analysis, beat detection, and rendering run on your Mac. Your footage stays there.

Inside Capta

Have a look around.

Capta's editor: live preview with a camera bubble, filmstrip trim, music card with built-in tracks, and the settings sidebar
The editor. The live preview front and center — camera bubble included — with filmstrip trim, one-click music, and every setting applying instantly.
Edit settings: camera intensity, pacing, AI emphasis and chapters, and the camera bubble controls
The edit. Camera intensity, pacing, Apple Intelligence emphasis & chapters, and the camera bubble's corner, shape, and ring.
Style settings with the background gallery
Style. 52 backgrounds plus your own image, with padding, corners, and shadow.
General settings: all five permissions granted, manual update check, storage
Yours to inspect. Every permission explained in one place, a manual-only update check, and recordings as plain folders you can open in Finder.
The capture panel: record or screenshot the screen, a window, or an area — with mic and camera toggles
The capture panel. ⌥⌘5 from anywhere — and flip Mic or Camera on right where you start recording.
The music card: built-in tracks, online search, and a drag bar to choose the song section
Music without the hunt. Built-in beat-locked tracks, free CC search with preview, and a drag bar to choose exactly which part of the song plays.
How it works

Three steps. One of them is optional.

Record

Hit ⌥⌘R and demo your product like you'd show a friend. Flip on Mic or Camera in the capture panel to narrate or appear in a corner bubble. Skip the performance: Capta cuts the pauses and fumbles anyway.

Glance

Capta has already placed the zooms, tightened the pacing, and synced the music. Tweak the style live if you feel like it.

Export

One click bakes the final video as 4K MP4, GIF, or straight to your clipboard, ready for your landing page or the App Store.

Private by architecture

Your recordings stay on your Mac.

Element detection, beat analysis, speech transcription, the Apple Intelligence features, the editing engine, and the renderer run on your machine. Capta ships with no account system, no uploads, and no telemetry. Read the privacy policy.

Your next product video
is one recording away.

Free · macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon · Signed & notarized