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Screen recordings,
polished out of the box.

Cursor zoom, captions, voice over and the edit are already on. Your recordings never leave your Mac.

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Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

Here's what it looks like.

A short clip recorded and edited entirely in TinyRec.

How it works

Three steps. That's it.

Record → Tweak → Export.

01 · Script

Jot down what you want to say.

Break your video into scenes and type the lines — TinyRec keeps you on track. Or skip this entirely and wing it.

02 · Record

Hit the red button.

Native macOS capture at 60fps with cursor, camera and mic. Re-record any scene without touching the rest.

03 · Edit

Ship the video.

Cursor zoom, captions and voice over are already on. Nudge what you want, then export up to 4K.

Auto Zoom

Your cursor leads. The camera follows.

Motion-tracked zoom with no keyframes. You click, it zooms. You move, it pans. Tweak the curve if you want — most people don't.

Subtitles

Captions in seconds, on your machine.

Whisper transcribes your narration locally — no cloud upload, no per-minute charge. Pick a style preset and ship them.

Voice Over

Type it. Hear it. Re-do it.

Turn any text into a natural AI voice track, timed to your scenes. Re-recording a line is a keypress, not a session.

Camera

Put yourself in the frame.

Webcam bubble with smooth fullscreen-to-corner intros. Resize, reposition, restyle — and hide it on the parts that don't need a face.

Record iPhone

Record your iPhone, framed like a real phone.

Plug in over USB and capture the screen straight to MP4 — no AirPlay, no QuickTime detour. Wrap the recording in any iPhone bezel from the picker, and the frame zooms with the video so it always looks like one piece.

Styling

Style the canvas around your recording.

Wallpapers, gradients, padding, corner radius and shadow — drop in your brand colors once and every video matches without you thinking about it.

Annotations

Point at things. Without slides.

Text, arrows, highlights, shapes — drop them anywhere on screen, animate them in and out. They feel native, not bolted on.

Masks

Hide what shouldn't be on screen.

Blur, pixelate or blank out passwords, names, that one tab you forgot to close. Or invert it — mask everything else and spotlight one area.

Timeline

A timeline that stays out of your way.

Trim, reorder, change speed, cut silence. The defaults are sane, so most edits take seconds — but the precision is there when you need it.

Under the hood

Fast where it matters.

TinyRec pairs Apple's native capture APIs with a Rust render pipeline — so recording is light and exporting is genuinely fast.

Built with Rust

The export pipeline is a native Rust binary. 4K renders are typically 2-3× faster than the source video.

Native macOS capture

ScreenCaptureKit at 60fps. No browser, no Electron capture quirks.

On-device, always

Recording, transcription and export run locally. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you share it.

Still here?

Record, edit, and export locally. Upgrade when you need watermark-free exports and more voice credits.

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macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

Free to start. Pro when you need more.

Free includes the full editor and 1,000 voice credits. Pro removes the watermark and refreshes 50,000 voice credits every month.

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Every feature, every length, every resolution — with a small watermark on exports.

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Unlimited recordings
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Up to 4K export
Auto zoom & cursor effects
Subtitles & voice over
Camera overlay
Annotations & masks
Custom styling & themes
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$7.99 / month

Watermark-free exports plus a monthly voice-over credit refresh.

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Questions you might have.

And a few I wish more people asked.

How do I install it?

Download the .dmg, drag TinyRec into Applications, and open it. The first run walks you through Screen Recording, Camera and Microphone permissions — takes about a minute.

Which Macs are supported?

macOS 13 (Ventura) and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Apple Silicon is recommended for 4K capture and export.

Where do my recordings go?

They stay on your Mac. Recording, transcription and export all run locally — nothing leaves your machine unless you choose to share a clip yourself.

What's the difference between Free and Pro?

Free is fully featured — unlimited recordings, every effect, up to 4K export, and 1,000 voice credits. Exports include a small TinyRec watermark. Pro ($7.99/month) removes the watermark, refreshes 50,000 voice credits monthly, and adds priority support.

Is there still a web editor?

Yes. editor.tinyrec.io is the same editor in the browser — handy if you're on someone else's machine.

Who built this?

One person — me, David. I wrote TinyRec because every screen recorder I tried fell short in some specific way. This is my answer.

How can I get help?

Email nam.trankhanh.vn@gmail.com or DM @davidtranwd on X. I read every message.

Nam

Hi, I'm Nam.

I record a lot of screencasts — for tutorials, for product demos, for the times I give up explaining something in Slack. For years I bounced between Loom, QuickTime, Screen Studio and a stack of half-built scripts. None of them did exactly what I wanted.

So I started writing my own. TinyRec is the result — the recorder I wanted: native Mac, your recordings stay on your Mac, and the editor's right there.

If you find a bug, or there's a feature you wish was there, @davidtranwd on X is the fastest way to reach me.