Native on macOS · made by one person

Screen recordings,
polished out of the box.

Cursor zoom, captions, voice over and the edit are already on. No sign-in, no monthly fee, and your recordings never leave your Mac.

Download for macOS

Free · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

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.

Styling

Your recording, your frame.

A library of wallpapers, gradients and frame themes. Drop in your brand colors 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.

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Grab it for Mac.

No signup. No monthly fee. Nothing leaves your machine.

Download for macOS

macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Pay once.

Free is fully featured — exports just include a small TinyRec watermark. Pay once to remove it. No subscription.

Free
$0 / forever

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

Download
Unlimited recordings
Unlimited duration
Up to 4K export
Auto zoom & cursor effects
Subtitles & voice over
Camera overlay
Annotations & masks
Custom styling & themes
Watermark-free exports
Best deal
Lifetime
$39 / one-time

Pay once, removes the watermark, yours forever. Supports a solo dev.

Get Lifetime
Everything in Free
No watermark on exports
Priority support (you'll hear from me, not a bot)
All future updates included

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 Lifetime?

Free is fully featured — unlimited recordings, every effect, up to 4K export. Exports just include a small TinyRec watermark. Lifetime ($39, one-time) removes the watermark, adds priority support, and includes all future updates.

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.

David Tran

Hi, I'm David.

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 stuff stays on your Mac, no monthly fee, 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.