Setup, common questions, and how to reach a human.
Three, and the app walks you through them on first launch: Screen Recording (the footage), Input Monitoring (clicks and typing drive the automatic edit), and Accessibility (so zooms frame the element you clicked). Grant each in System Settings → Privacy & Security. The privacy page explains how each one is used.
macOS applies the Screen Recording grant to newly launched apps. Quit and reopen Capta once after granting; the permission screen has a Relaunch button for this.
macOS sometimes adds Capta to the Input Monitoring list without showing a dialog. The button opens System Settings at the right pane; flip the Capta toggle there and the app picks it up within a second or two.
⌥⌘R starts and stops from anywhere. You can also use the menu-bar icon, the capture panel on ⌥⌘5, or the buttons in the app. While recording, a floating Stop pill sits at the bottom of your screen.
Prefer Capta's own Stop over the one inside macOS's screen-sharing pill; the system button ends the stream on macOS's side first and adds an extra step.
In ~/Movies/Capta, one folder per recording, next to each exported
MP4. They also show up in Spotlight if you search "capta".
Yes. The preview applies your changes live: switch backgrounds, adjust zoom intensity and pacing, trim on the filmstrip, and toggle individual zoom moments off. Export bakes the final file whenever you are happy.
Drop any audio file onto a recording. Capta detects the tempo on-device and nudges cut points onto the beat. Volume, click sounds, and whooshes live in Settings → Sound.
An orange dot on the Export button means the file on disk predates your latest settings. Export again to refresh it.
Capta relies on each app's accessibility data, and a few apps (some Electron ones in particular) report poor element frames. Capta falls back to cursor-centered zooms there. You can also switch any zoom off in the moments list. Reports of misbehaving apps are welcome at the address below.
macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon is the primary target; the app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Email gorgekara@gmail.com
with your macOS version and, if it helps, the recording folder from
~/Movies/Capta. You will hear back from the person who wrote the code.