Guides
Everything from your first install to a polished export. Pick a section below or use the sidebar.
Getting Started
- Install on macOSDownload TinyRec, drag it into Applications, and open it for the first time.
- Grant permissions on first launchScreen Recording, Accessibility, Camera, Microphone — what TinyRec asks for and why.
- Record your first videoOpen TinyRec, pick a screen, hit record, and end up with a finished MP4 — in five minutes.
- Customize your recordingSet up a take in the recording dashboard — pick your source, dial in the mic and camera, and stop cleanly. The full reference for everything before you hit record.
- Write a script with multiple scenesPlan a multi-scene project, then record each scene against its script — with a teleprompter that's invisible to viewers.
- App overview — Home, Recorder, EditorTinyRec has three main surfaces. Here's what each one does and how to move between them.
- Your data stays on your Mac — our privacy promiseTinyRec runs 100% offline. Your recordings, transcripts, and edits never leave your Mac. Here's the full list of exceptions.
Editor
- Editor overviewA tour of the TinyRec editor — preview canvas, timeline, settings panel — and how the three regions work together.
- TimelineThe timeline is the editor's centre of gravity. Every cut, zoom, mask, annotation and audio tweak lives on it as a discrete segment you can move, resize, or delete.
- ZoomZoom segments are how TinyRec brings the camera in close. Auto by default — the app detects where to focus from your cursor. Switch any segment to manual to pin a fixed focus region for its whole duration.
- Style your videoWallpaper, padding, corner roundness, shadow, blur — everything that lives between your screen recording and the edge of the frame.
- CameraShow or hide the camera bubble, change its size, position, shape and crop, and push it to fullscreen on specific segments — all without re-recording.
- Audio editingMix system audio and microphone, clean up the recording with one-click noise reduction, and lay a music bed underneath — built-in library or your own file.
- Wrap your video in an iPhone bezelDrop a real iPhone frame around your iOS screen recording — pick a model, pick a colour, ship it. No iPad or Android frames yet.
- ExportClick Export, pick a quality, save the MP4. What you see in the editor preview is what ships in the file.
Advanced
- SubtitlesAuto-generate captions from your audio with local Whisper, then style and edit them to match your brand. Runs entirely on-device — no cloud, no per-minute charge.
- VoiceoverTranslate your subtitles into any language and generate an AI voice track for them. Four steps from a transcribed recording to a fully localized version.