Capta - record a demo, get a finished product video
macOS screen recorder

Capta

The screen recorder that edits itself.

At a glance
  • Free
  • macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon
  • Notarized, 1.8 MB
  • No account
The short version

What Capta does

Record a demo of your app and every screen recorder on the market hands you the same thing back: your footage, untouched, with the pauses and the typos and the minute of fumbling left in, and a timeline in which to spend your evening fixing that. Capta hands you the edit. While you record it watches your clicks, your typing and your scrolling, and when you stop it has already chosen the zooms, cut the dead air, sped up the typing and set the pacing.

The camera work is the part you notice first. Capta reads the UI element under every click and frames it with spring-damped moves that glide rather than snap - and when an app will not say what you clicked, it finds the dialog in the pixels and frames that instead. Drop in a music track and every cut lands on the beat; no track handy, and three built-in ones or a Creative-Commons search are one click away, with a drag handle to pick exactly which stretch of the song plays.

Talk while you record and Capta transcribes you on the Mac itself, burns in captions, steers cuts and speed-ups around your sentences, and ducks the music under your voice. Flip the camera on and you appear as a floating bubble - circle, rounded or square, any corner. On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, the on-device model also picks the moment your demo builds toward, titles its chapters, and writes the video's title, caption and social post from what actually happened on screen.

All of it runs on your Mac: the recording, the edit engine, the transcription, the AI. No account, no uploads, no telemetry - the only network requests it can make are the update check and the music search, and both wait for you to click.

In detail

The parts worth knowing about

Not the whole list - the app has more screens than a page like this can usefully hold. These are the decisions that make Capta different from the last one you tried.

On screen

Capta, running

The editor with a recording in the live preview, a camera bubble in its corner, filmstrip trim below, a music card with built-in tracks, and the settings sidebar open
The editor: preview, trim, music, settings - and the bubble
The Edit pane: camera intensity, pacing sliders, the Apple Intelligence emphasis and chapters toggle, and the camera bubble's corner, shape and ring controls
The edit, tuned in one pane
The Style pane's background gallery, a grid of named gradient, radial and mesh presets
52 backgrounds, or bring your own
The General settings pane listing all five permissions as granted with what each is for, the manual update check, and where recordings are stored
Every permission explained, in one place
The music card with three built-in tracks, an online search button, and a drag bar selecting which section of the song plays
Built-in tracks, CC search, and the song section you choose
The floating capture panel with record and screenshot buttons for screen, window and area, and mic and camera toggles
⌥⌘5 from anywhere - mic and camera where you start
What it costs

Pricing

Free means the product, not a tier of it. The Apple Intelligence features need a Mac that has Apple Intelligence; everything else needs nothing but the download.

Before you start

What you need

Mac
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon
AI features
Apple Intelligence, when enabled - optional, everything else works without it
Size
1.8 MB download, notarized by Apple
Account
None. No sign-in, no telemetry, no uploads.
Network
None on its own. The update check and music search run only when you click them.

Record once

Your next product video is one recording away.