# Capta - record a demo, get a finished product video > A free Mac screen recorder that edits for you: zooms on what you click, cuts dead air, syncs every cut to your music, and captions your narration - entirely on your Mac. Source: https://karakabakov.com/capta/ --- macOS screen recorder # Capta The screen recorder that edits itself. [Download Capta](https://capta.idad.fyi/) [More build write-ups](https://karakabakov.com/posts) 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. - ### Zooms that know what you clicked Capta reads the UI element under every click and frames it with spring-damped camera moves, restrained on purpose. When an app hides its widgets, Vision finds the dialog in the pixels and frames the whole thing. - ### Dead air never ships Idle stretches are cut, typing and loading are sped through with eased ramps, and a minute of fumbling comes out as thirty tight seconds - without you marking a single edit. - ### Cuts that land on the beat Drop in any track and Capta detects its tempo on-device and snaps every cut to the grid. Three built-in tracks and a Creative-Commons search cover you when nothing is handy, and a drag bar picks the stretch of the song that plays. - ### Talk, and it captions you Narration is transcribed on your Mac, captions are burned in, cuts and speed-ups steer around your sentences, and the music ducks while you speak. Your voice never leaves the machine. - ### You, in the corner Record the camera alongside the screen and appear as a floating bubble - circle, rounded or square, any corner, with or without the ring. Toggle it right where you start recording. - ### Apple Intelligence, when you have it On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, the on-device model picks the payoff moment and gives it the strongest zoom, titles the chapters, and writes your title, caption and social post. Optional, and everything works without it. - ### A screenshot studio in the same style Capture a screen, window or area and restyle it live with one-click presets. Annotate with arrows, highlights, numbered steps, a spotlight dim, and a pixelating blur for the parts nobody should read. - ### The preview is the editor Every setting - background, camera intensity, trim, zoom toggles - applies instantly to a live preview. Export is the only offline step: MP4 up to 4K60, a GIF, or straight to the clipboard. 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](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-editor.webp) *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](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-edit.webp) *The edit, tuned in one pane* ![The Style pane's background gallery, a grid of named gradient, radial and mesh presets](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-style.webp) *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](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-general.webp) *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](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-music.webp) *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](https://karakabakov.com/images/products/capta-hud.webp) *⌥⌘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. - Capta Free The whole app. No trial clock, no watermark, no account. - Automatic zooms, cuts and pacing - Narration captions and the camera bubble - Beat-synced music, built-in and searched - Apple Intelligence features on supported Macs - Screenshot studio, GIF export, 4K60 MP4 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. [Download Capta](https://capta.idad.fyi/) [More build write-ups](https://karakabakov.com/posts)