Smooth Recorder is a native Mac app for demos and tutorials. It zooms in where you click, smooths your cursor, adds captions on your Mac and puts it all on a nice background. Screenshots get the same features.
đ Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Anas. I made Smooth Recorder because every time I recorded a product demo, recording was the easy part. The editing took an hour: zooming into clicks, hiding a shaky cursor, adding captions, and putting it on a background so it didn't look like a raw screen recording.
So I built an app that does all of that for you.
⨠Features:
⢠Auto Zoom â Zooms where you click and follows your cursor, so viewers can easily follow along.
⢠3D Angles (new in v1.1) â Adds a subtle tilt during zooms for a more cinematic look.
⢠Smooth Cursor, Camera Bubble & Captions â Captions are generated on your Mac, and you can edit your video by simply deleting words from the transcript.
⢠Beautiful Screenshots â Press âĽ1, select an area, and it instantly lands on a wallpaper with a shadow, ready to share. Includes 76 wallpapers.
It's a native macOS app (built with SwiftUI, not a web app in a window).
đ° Early access: $9 one-time.
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I'd love to hear what you record with it and what features you'd like to see next. I read every reply. â¤ď¸
Lately, Iâve been making more tutorials, so Iâve tried quite a few screen recording tools on Mac, including Screen Studio. Smooth Recorder genuinely holds its own against them and in a few areas, I actually prefer it.
What stands out:
⢠Automatic zooms + smooth cursor: Recordings already look edited when you hit stop. ⢠Transcript editing: Edit the video by editing the text, and remove filler words or long pauses in one click. ⢠More than video: Screenshots, scrolling captures, GIFs, text extraction, and smart redaction are all built in. ⢠Native + private: Itâs a real macOS app, and captions, OCR, and redaction all happen locally on your Mac.
A seriously polished tool for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or product content on Mac.
Well Marios, Voice-over is already in: when you pick an area to record, click the mic chip on the bar under it and choose your microphone.
Thanks a lot : )
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I love the product and bought it. Here is some feedback: recording is easy and straight forward. UI and UX is clean but here is what I would like to see improved: 1. Dragging the cursor or edges of video snippets: the "touch area" is really small. You need to align your cursor perfectly on the edge of the video pill or the timeline cursor in order to drag it 2. The "undo" button next to the trash icon. I just lost like 30 minutes of cutting work because I understood the undo button to be a "undo your last action" turns out this undos all your editing you did on the clip without asking you in a popup if you really intend to do this. Either add a popup for this destructive action asking the user if they want to undo all their work or change the btn to be a real "undo the last action" btn and add a redo next to that. 3. Often clicking a video snippet does not select it. It only works when your timeline cursor is on that snippet you want to select and you click to the left of your timeline cursor.
Other than that: congrats on launching such a well executed product!
Really appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. I love that you pointed these issues out, and I'll be fixing them in the next updates. Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback.
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How do the on device captions hold up on a long recording with an accent, say Indian English? Does it need a model download first?
Captions run on your Mac, nothing gets uploaded. On macOS 26, the first time you make captions it downloads Apple's speech model by itself, and after that it works offline.
It goes by your Mac's language and region, so set your Mac to English (India) to get the Indian English model, which does better with the accent.
Long recordings are fine. If a word comes out wrong, you can just click the caption and fix it.
Thanks a lot.
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Auto zoom following clicks is right until it lands on a click that didn't matter, and then you're back in the timeline anyway. Can a zoom be moved after the fact?
Excited to hunt Smooth Recorder today.
Lately, Iâve been making more tutorials, so Iâve tried quite a few screen recording tools on Mac, including Screen Studio. Smooth Recorder genuinely holds its own against them and in a few areas, I actually prefer it.
What stands out:
⢠Automatic zooms + smooth cursor: Recordings already look edited when you hit stop.
⢠Transcript editing: Edit the video by editing the text, and remove filler words or long pauses in one click.
⢠More than video: Screenshots, scrolling captures, GIFs, text extraction, and smart redaction are all built in.
⢠Native + private: Itâs a real macOS app, and captions, OCR, and redaction all happen locally on your Mac.
A seriously polished tool for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or product content on Mac.
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Well Marios, Voice-over is already in: when you pick an area to record, click the mic chip on the bar under it and choose your microphone.
Thanks a lot : )
I love the product and bought it. Here is some feedback: recording is easy and straight forward. UI and UX is clean but here is what I would like to see improved:
1. Dragging the cursor or edges of video snippets: the "touch area" is really small. You need to align your cursor perfectly on the edge of the video pill or the timeline cursor in order to drag it
2. The "undo" button next to the trash icon. I just lost like 30 minutes of cutting work because I understood the undo button to be a "undo your last action" turns out this undos all your editing you did on the clip without asking you in a popup if you really intend to do this. Either add a popup for this destructive action asking the user if they want to undo all their work or change the btn to be a real "undo the last action" btn and add a redo next to that.
3. Often clicking a video snippet does not select it. It only works when your timeline cursor is on that snippet you want to select and you click to the left of your timeline cursor.
Other than that: congrats on launching such a well executed product!
@moritz_schultz Thanks a lot for trying it out, Moritz.
Really appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. I love that you pointed these issues out, and I'll be fixing them in the next updates. Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback.
How do the on device captions hold up on a long recording with an accent, say Indian English? Does it need a model download first?
@sagar_deore Hey Sagar,
Captions run on your Mac, nothing gets uploaded. On macOS 26, the first time you make captions it downloads Apple's speech model by itself, and after that it works offline.
It goes by your Mac's language and region, so set your Mac to English (India) to get the Indian English model, which does better with the accent.
Long recordings are fine. If a word comes out wrong, you can just click the caption and fix it.
Thanks a lot.
Auto zoom following clicks is right until it lands on a click that didn't matter, and then you're back in the timeline anyway. Can a zoom be moved after the fact?
How does this compare to CleanShot Pro?
Any plans to include Windows and cover a bigger market? :)
@busmark_w_nikaThanks Nika. Yes, Windows is on the roadmap : )
For now I am focused on making the Mac version great. I'll share it here when it's ready.