Guides

Download TinyRec, drag it into Applications, and open it for the first time.

Screen Recording, Accessibility, Camera, Microphone — what TinyRec asks for and why.

Open TinyRec, pick a screen, hit record, and end up with a finished MP4 — in five minutes.

Set 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.

Plan a multi-scene project, then record each scene against its script — with a teleprompter that's invisible to viewers.

TinyRec has three main surfaces. Here's what each one does and how to move between them.

TinyRec runs 100% offline. Your recordings, transcripts, and edits never leave your Mac. Here's the full list of exceptions.

A tour of the TinyRec editor — preview canvas, timeline, settings panel — and how the three regions work together.

The 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.

Zoom 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.

Wallpaper, padding, corner roundness, shadow, blur — everything that lives between your screen recording and the edge of the frame.

Show or hide the camera bubble, change its size, position, shape and crop, and push it to fullscreen on specific segments — all without re-recording.

Mix 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.

Drop a real iPhone frame around your iOS screen recording — pick a model, pick a colour, ship it. No iPad or Android frames yet.

Click Export, pick a quality, save the MP4. What you see in the editor preview is what ships in the file.

Auto-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.

Translate your subtitles into any language and generate an AI voice track for them. Four steps from a transcribed recording to a fully localized version.

Wired iPhone not appearing in TinyRec's source picker? Four checks usually cover it: cable, iOS version, lock state, and the macOS "Allow accessory" prompt.