Introducing Screen Recorder Editor 1.0
Why we built another Mac screen recorder, what shipped in 1.0, and what a one-time license buys you.
Screen Recorder Editor 1.0 is out. It records your Mac's screen and edits the result in the same app, and you need to pay only once.
There are already screen recorders. Here is why we made another one.
The twenty minutes after you stop recording
Recording is solved. Every Mac does it, and ⇧⌘5 is genuinely fast.
What is not solved is everything after. You stop, and you have a file with a stumble at 0:14, a click nobody can see at 1:20, forty seconds of loading spinner, and audio that is half a notch too quiet. So you either send it as-is, re-record the whole thing, or open a video editor built for something else entirely.
That gap is the product. The recording opens straight into an editor that knows it is editing a screen recording — cuts, zooms, narration, backgrounds — and nothing else.
What shipped in 1.0
Capture. Full display, a single window, or a drawn region with the area outlined on screen while you record, so you can see the boundary instead of guessing. Preset durations, or manual with a global stop shortcut.
Devices. Microphone, camera and system audio as three independent toggles, recorded to separate tracks. The camera bubble takes a shape you choose and can blur its background live, on-device.
Controls that follow you. The recording controls stay visible across every macOS Space, including full-screen apps. Demoing something full-screen should not mean losing the stop button.
Editing. Split at the playhead, select, delete. Zoom markers with a depth choice and eased motion, so an emphasis reads as intentional rather than as a jump cut. Hold-to-narrate voiceover recorded straight over the timeline, so a bad sentence costs a sentence and not a take.
Presentation. Mesh, gradient, solid or image backgrounds with padding control, and aspect ratio presets for 16:9, vertical and square.
Export. MP4, audio on its own, or a transcript for the people who will not press play.
Signed and notarized, so macOS opens it without ceremony. Everything stays on your Mac — the app talks to our servers only to check your license and look for updates.
Three free recordings, then $29
No account, no email, no watermark: download it and record three times with the full editor. That is enough to know.
After that it is a one-time license — $29 for one Mac, $49 for three — not a subscription. All 1.x updates are included. If it does not work out, there is a 14-day refund, though we would rather you found that out during the free recordings.
We chose one-time pricing deliberately. A tool you open twice a week to record a demo should not have a meter running on it, and an editor that locks when a card expires is a bad deal for software that runs entirely on your own machine.
What is next
In rough order:
- self-service device management, so moving a seat does not need an email;
- more export presets, including sizes tuned for specific platforms;
- transcript improvements, including caption export;
- upgrade path from one Mac to three.
Tell us what is missing
1.0 is the version where feedback changes the most. If something in your recording workflow is awkward, write to us — email goes to the person who builds the app.
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