Native macOS screen recorder & editor
Record your screen, and ReScreen does the part you dread: it zooms into every click, makes your cursor readable, drops the whole thing on a background worth sharing, and exports up to 4K — without your footage ever leaving the Mac.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · from $12
You hit record and talk. ReScreen does the part you dread: it zooms into every click, makes your cursor readable, frames the take on a background worth sharing and exports up to 4K. All of it happens on your Mac. None of it is uploaded.
ReScreen is a native screen recorder and video editor for macOS. It records your screen, camera, microphone and system audio as separate tracks, zooms into every click for you, and exports finished video up to 4K — all on your Mac, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
Why nobody finishes your demo
Four things go wrong in almost every screen recording. None of them is your fault, and none of them is worth an evening in a video editor.
A 4K display replayed in a 1080p player turns every button, menu and field into a grey smudge, and the viewer stops following you three steps in.
What ReScreen does
Clicks are recorded as events, so the editor zooms to each one automatically and holds it long enough to read.
Smart ZoomThree minutes of screen becomes forty minutes of somebody else’s timeline: import, keyframe the zooms, cut the pause, re-encode, discover the aspect ratio was wrong.
What ReScreen does
Stopping the recording opens the editor on the take — split, trim, ripple-delete and change speed without an import step.
Timeline editorThe most sensitive video you make — customer data, internal dashboards, an inbox you forgot was open — is uploaded before you have watched it back once.
What ReScreen does
Capture, edit and export run on your Mac. Projects are ordinary folders you own, and no footage is ever sent anywhere.
Private by designAn edge-to-edge capture of somebody else’s user interface, in the wrong shape for the place you are posting it, with nothing of your brand anywhere in frame.
What ReScreen does
Drop the recording onto a canvas with padding, rounded corners, a shadow and your own background — landscape, square or vertical.
Canvas & backgroundsSmart Zoom
A button, a menu, a field forty pixels wide. You carry on talking, because that is the part of the job that matters.
The click is recorded as an event with its position and its timing — not burned into the pixels, where nothing could be done with it later.
Nearby clicks become one held zoom, framed away from your camera and the edges of the screen, and every block stays editable.
How it works
There is no export-then-import step in the middle, because the editor is already open on the take you just finished.
Choose a display, a window, a single application or a region you draw, add your camera, microphone and the app’s own audio, then hit ⌥⌘R and talk.
Clicks become zoom blocks, drags and scrolls extend them, the cursor becomes something a viewer can follow, and a playable MP4 is already waiting beside the project.
Cut the stumble, pick a canvas and background, position the camera and take the room out from behind you, then export up to 4K in MP4 or MOV — or send the instant copy and get on with your day.
Everything in the box
Every plan includes every feature. There is no tier where the zoom works and no tier where your footage is watermarked.
ReScreen watches where you click, drag and scroll, then pans and zooms the way an editor would — while you are still recording.
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A display, a single window, one application, or a region you draw — at the pixel density the screen actually has.
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Camera, microphone and system audio are captured as independent tracks, so fixing one never damages another.
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Remove, blur or recolour what is behind you on camera — chosen after you record, with no green screen and nothing uploaded.
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Your voice and the app’s audio stay on separate tracks, so a quiet narration, a loud notification or a humming room is a slider rather than a re-take.
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Splitting, trimming, ripple deletes and per-section speed, without exporting into another application first.
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Padding, rounded corners, a shadow and a background that belongs to your brand — set once, rendered at export.
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A 9:16, 4:5 or 1:1 canvas that shows the whole screen over a blurred backdrop, or fills with your recording and follows what you are doing, so the action stays inside a frame the shape of a phone.
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Size, smoothing, idle fade and click effects — drawn from recorded events rather than burned into the capture.
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Up to 4K at 30 or 60 FPS, MP4 or MOV, H.264 or HEVC — plus a playable MP4 written the moment you stop.
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The recording reaches the disk while you are still talking, so an interrupted session is offered back to you instead of becoming a file nothing can open.
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Recording, editing and export all happen locally. There is no upload step, because there is nowhere to upload to.
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Record the walkthrough once. ReScreen zooms to your clicks, steadies the pointer, frames your camera and exports up to 4K — on your Mac, with nothing uploaded.
Read morePrivate by design
Screen recordings are the most sensitive video you make: customer data, internal dashboards, an inbox you forgot was open. So none of it is uploaded — not to be rendered, not to be stored, not to be analysed.
There is no processing queue and no bucket. The app has nowhere to send a recording, which is a stronger guarantee than a policy that says it will not.
Every take is a folder in your Movies folder holding ordinary media files, its metadata and a thumbnail. Move it, back it up, open it in Finder.
Once you have signed in, the app keeps recording without a connection. A flight or a bad hotel network never locks you out mid-take.
Your Mac
Upload to somebody else’s server
The app only talks to us about your account — never about what you record.
The same recording, twice
Recording it the usual way
ReScreen
Zooms keyframed by hand, one at a time
Zoom blocks built from your actual clicks
A four-pixel pointer nobody can follow
A sized, smoothed cursor with visible clicks
Export, import, cut, export again
The timeline opens the moment you stop
One flattened audio track you cannot repair
Camera, microphone and system audio kept apart
A crash costs you the whole take
An interrupted take is recovered, not lost
Your footage uploaded to be processed
Nothing leaves the Mac it was recorded on
Pricing
Every plan unlocks every feature. Buy it monthly while a project runs, yearly if you record every week, or once and never again.
For a project that has an end date.
$12per month
For the people who record every week.
$96per year
For people who are done renting software.
$199once
ReScreen is screen recording software for Mac, a screen recording program built around one idea: the recording is where the work starts, not where it ends. Choose a display, a window, an application or an area you draw, record your camera and system audio alongside it, and the take opens in an editor that has already zoomed in on your clicks. It is a screen recording app, a screen video recorder and a video editor in one native macOS application, which is why it is also described as screencast software for Mac.
Capture, editing and export run on your Mac, on Apple Silicon and Intel, on macOS 13 Ventura or later. macOS is the current name of what older machines call OS X, so if you are searching for screen recording software for OS X, note that releases from that era are not supported. There is no browser tab to keep open and nothing is uploaded, which is the practical difference between a native screen recorder for Mac and an online one: the footage stays where it was recorded, and, once you have signed in, the app keeps working with no network. Local and private recording explains what that means for sensitive screens.
Record at the display's real Retina resolution and export up to 4K at 30 or 60 FPS, as MP4 or MOV, with H.264 or HEVC. Zooming in and out follows your clicks, the pointer is redrawn larger and steadier, and a background, padding and a shadow make a capture look designed. The export page lists every format, and 4K 60 FPS screen recording explained says when the extra resolution earns its file size.
macOS already records its screen with Shift-Command-5 and QuickTime Player, and OBS Studio is a capable free, open-source recorder. Both are good at what they do. ReScreen is for the moment you want the zooms, the audio tracks and the edit handled for you. It is paid, with monthly, yearly and lifetime plans on the pricing page. Free screen recorders for Mac explains where each free option stops, and the best screen recorder for Mac, by job helps you choose.
Start with how to screen record on a Mac, then how to record with sound. If you need a still image, how to take a screenshot on a Mac lists every shortcut. The full set of how-to guides covers webcam video and background noise, and audio-only recording with the tools built into macOS.
FAQ
No. Capture, editing and export all run on your Mac, and projects are stored as ordinary folders inside your Movies folder. Your account only confirms your plan, and nothing you record is ever part of that.
Yes. Once you have signed in, the app keeps recording without a connection, so a flight or a bad hotel network never locks you out mid-take. It only needs the internet now and then to confirm your plan.
For most screen recordings, no. Splitting, trimming, ripple deletes, per-section speed, audio mixing, zooms, cursor styling, backgrounds and export up to 4K all live in the app.
Yes. Alongside the monthly and yearly plans there is a lifetime licence: one payment, no renewal, and it never expires.
Yes, and as separate tracks. Your voice and the application’s sound are captured independently, so you can set their levels, fade them and clean up your voice without touching the app audio.
No. ReScreen is paid, with monthly, yearly and lifetime plans and no free tier. A Mac already records its screen for nothing with Shift-Command-5 and QuickTime Player, and OBS Studio is free and open source; our guide to free screen recorders for Mac explains what each gives you and where it stops.
QuickTime Player is a quick recorder with no automatic zoom or cursor styling and only basic trimming, and OBS Studio is a live-streaming tool built from scenes and sources. ReScreen is built for recorded demos and tutorials: it zooms on your clicks, keeps your voice and the app’s sound apart and opens an editor the moment you stop.
That depends on the job, and we would rather say so. Auto zoom is what ReScreen is built around, but other Mac recorders do it too, and the comparison articles cover each one honestly. Choose it when you want zooms you can edit, a lifetime licence and recordings that never leave your Mac.
No. ReScreen is a native macOS application for macOS 13 Ventura or later on Apple Silicon and Intel. There is no Windows, Linux, iPad or iPhone version, so it is not the right tool if you record on any of those.
macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Screen Recording permission is required; Camera, Microphone and Input Monitoring are optional and only enable the features that need them.
Install it, hit ⌥⌘R, and watch a take that would normally cost you an evening in a timeline come out finished.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon and Intel