Questions about ReScreen, answered

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.

Yes. Press Shift-Command-5 to open the Screenshot toolbar, or choose File > New Screen Recording in QuickTime Player. Both record the whole screen or a selected portion and save a .mov file. They do not zoom, style the cursor or open an editor.

To the Desktop by default, named Screen Recording followed by the date and time. You can change the folder under Options > Save to in the Screenshot toolbar. ReScreen saves each recording as a project folder inside your Movies folder, with a playable MP4 beside it.

The built-in recorder lets you pick a microphone. Apple documents an Include System Audio option only from macOS 27, so on earlier versions the sound of the app you are recording is missing. ReScreen captures your microphone and system audio as separate tracks on macOS 13 and later.

Yes. The tools built into macOS are free, and OBS Studio is free and open source. ReScreen is paid. The guide to free screen recorders for Mac compares what each one does well and where it stops, so you can decide whether you need more than they give you.

A screenshot is a still image, taken with Shift-Command-3, 4 or 5 and saved as a .png. A screen recording is a video, saved as a .mov. ReScreen records video only; it does not take screenshots, so use the macOS shortcuts for stills.

No. ReScreen is paid-only: the app shows a sign-in screen until an account with an active plan unlocks recording. In exchange there is no watermark, no time limit and no feature held back for a higher tier.

Nothing immediate. A failed renewal never stops a recording halfway through: update your card and the plan carries on exactly as before.

Access runs to the end of the period you have paid for and then stops. Your recordings are ordinary files in a folder you own, so they stay exactly where they are.

Sign in on your account page at https://rescreen.studio/account. It lists your subscription and every payment: you can cancel, move between monthly and yearly, change the card you pay with and download each invoice there.

Yes. Monthly and yearly switch on your account page, and the unused part of your current plan is taken off the first charge. Buy Lifetime and your subscription ends straight away, so it never charges you again.

Yes. Release the old Mac from Settings → Account and sign in on the new one, so replacing a laptop does not mean buying the app again.

Yes. It is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, and it carries no expiry date at all.

Checkout is handled by our merchant of record, Paddle or Dodo Payments: the checkout and your receipt name which one sold you your plan. Card details are never seen by the app or by this site.

No. There is no server on our side that can receive video, so there is nothing to look at. Capture, editing and export all happen on your Mac, and the files stay in a folder you own.

Your sign-in, and the question of whether your plan is active. Nothing about what you are recording, which applications are open, or what is on the screen.

No. We never receive a frame of your footage in the first place, so there is nothing of yours to train anything on — now or in any future version.

That is what it was built for: nothing is uploaded, so nothing is exposed by uploading it. You still need to meet your own obligations about what you may capture and who may see it.

macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. The package is universal, so the same download installs the native build for either architecture.

Yes. The first time you open ReScreen, macOS asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the internet. Click Open; it does not ask again. If you see any other warning instead, download the app again from this page rather than from a copy someone sent you.

In a folder inside ~/Movies by default, as one folder per project. You can change the location in Settings → General; changing it never moves or removes recordings you already made.

No. There is no Xcode, Node.js or runtime dependency, and no background service is installed alongside the app.

More than one. The app lists the Macs you are signed in on under Settings → Account, and you can release one at any time to make room for another.

Choose “Forgot password” on the sign-in screen. We email you a code, you set a new password with it, and the new password signs you out everywhere else.

Yes — write to [email protected] from the address currently on the account and tell us the new one. We move it by hand so that nobody can take an account over by changing where its mail goes.

Email [email protected] from the address on the account and ask. We delete the account and the record of the Macs it was signed in on. Recordings on your own Mac are untouched — they were never ours to remove.

Write to [email protected], or use the feedback button in the app. Say which Mac and which macOS version you are on and what you expected to happen — that is usually enough for a real answer first time.

Yes. Every plan is covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee: ask within 14 calendar days of the charge, for any reason, and we refund it in full.

Tell us what happened and we will try to fix it. If we cannot fix it for you, we refund you — a recorder that will not record on your machine is not something you should be paying for.

Yes, and the feedback button in the app is the fastest route. Requests that describe the recording you were trying to make tend to become features; requests that describe a settings screen tend not to.