Native Screen

Screen recorder for macOS and Windows · Free and open source

Record once.
It comes out edited.

Native Screen turns a plain screen recording into a polished demo: zooms that follow your clicks, a cursor that glides, captions, backgrounds, and a real multi-track timeline when you want control. Everything runs on your computer.

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macOS 14 or later · Windows 10 or 11 · MIT license

A demo web app, exported from Native Screen. The zooms came from the clicks on their own.
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A timeline with as many tracks as the story needs.

Most recorders give you one row for zooms and call it editing. Native Screen gives each kind of item its own tracks, and lets you add more: two blurs that overlap, caption lines stacked for two speakers, shortcuts on their own lane.

  • Drag items between tracks, trim, split and duplicate.
  • Everything snaps to edges, cuts and the playhead.
  • Hide a track while you work, or delete it with what is on it.
  • Every change is one undo step.
Two mask tracks: a blur over the email and phone, a pixelate over the new key.
The Native Screen timeline: a clip with a 2× part, a zoom track, two mask tracks, a shortcuts track and two caption tracks
The timeline of the video at the top of this page, with masks, shortcuts and captions added.
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The polish happens while you are still recording.

Zooms that follow you

Clicks and typing become zooms on their own. Move them, change the depth, or switch to a loupe that magnifies one spot.

A cursor that glides

Shaky paths are smoothed, the cursor can be resized or restyled after recording, and clicks get a quiet ripple.

Movement that looks filmed

Fast moves pick up a short motion blur, the way a camera would see them, so nothing jumps. Shown here at half speed.

Shortcuts people can follow

Keyboard shortcuts you press appear as keycaps, on their own track, so viewers see how you got there.

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Change the room after you've left it.

A new background, and a sticker that follows you

Blur the room or swap it for a photo, then add a sticker that stays on your face as you move. It all runs on your computer, and you can change it any time.

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One recording, every shape.

Switch between wide, square and vertical at any time. Zooms re-aim and captions move to stay readable. Reel mode lays the TikTok, Reels or Shorts interface over the preview so nothing important ends up under a button.

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Edit the video by editing the words.

Captions are made on your computer, in your language. Then the transcript becomes an editor: delete a sentence to cut it, or clear every filler word and long pause in one pass.

Styles for line or word animation, per-caption colors, and .srt export.

The transcript editor: filler words and pauses marked, with buttons to remove 4 filler words and tighten 4 pauses
A recording of the demo app with a computer voice. The transcript was made on device.
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Or ask an agent to do the editing.

Native Screen speaks the Model Context Protocol. Claude, Codex, Cursor and other agents can record, cut, zoom, caption, restyle and export, in the editor you are looking at. Every change can be undone, and the connection is a local socket only your account can open.

  1. Turn on Settings › AI Agents.
  2. Copy the command for your agent from that page.
  3. Describe the video you want.
A real agent session, sped up.
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Made to feel at home on your computer.

No web page in a window. Native Screen is written with each system’s own tools, so it uses the windows, menus, shortcuts, text fields and accessibility you already know, and it stays out of the way of your fans and your battery.

Native on both systems

SwiftUI, AppKit and Metal on the Mac, WinUI 3 and Direct3D 11 on Windows. The GPU draws every frame and the hardware encoder writes it. No FFmpeg, no browser engine.

Private by design

Recording, captions, sensitive data detection and export all run locally. No account, no upload, no telemetry.

Light and dark

Follows your system, or pick one. The editor, the recording bar and this page all switch together.

Your language

English · Tiếng Việt · 简体中文 · 日本語 · Deutsch · Français · Español · Português (Brasil)

Crash safe

Recordings are written in small pieces as you go, so a crash or a dead battery does not lose the take.

Open format

Projects are folders with documented JSON. The same project opens on Mac and Windows.

The Native Screen editor in light mode
Light theme
The Native Screen editor in dark mode
Dark theme

Free, for good.

No trial, no plan, no watermark. If it helps you, star the repository or send a fix.

The Native Screen editor on macOS

macOS

macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Download .dmg

Signed and notarized by Apple. Updates arrive inside the app.

The Native Screen editor on Windows

Windows

Windows 10 or 11 · x64

Download installer
Why Windows shows a blue warning

Signing certificates for Windows cost money every year, and we have applied for free signing for open source projects. Until that is approved, SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC” the first time. Click More info, then Run anyway. You can compare the file with the SHA-256 on the release page, or build it yourself from the source.

Older versions and release notes are on GitHub Releases.