Record your screen, your camera and your voice

Record your screen with sound on a Mac

A screen recording with audio has two different kinds of sound in it: your voice, and whatever the Mac is playing. ReScreen captures both, as separate tracks, so you can record the screen and microphone together, the screen and system audio together, or all three with your camera as well. People ask this in many ways: how to record a MacBook screen with audio, how to capture screen and audio together on a Mac, how to include the sound of a video you are showing. The answer is the same: switch on microphone and system audio before you press record.

Because system audio is captured through macOS itself, there is nothing extra to install first. If you have been told you need a virtual audio device or a loopback driver, read how to record system audio on a Mac without a virtual driver to see why that is no longer true here.

Screen, webcam and audio at the same time

Switch the camera on and the take has four independent inputs: screen, camera, microphone and system audio. Each is recorded to its own file and combined only when you play or export. That is what lets you move or resize the camera after the fact, mute one source without touching the others, and repair a voice that was too quiet without changing the sound of the app. How to record yourself on a Mac covers the camera side, and the webcam overlay guide helps you choose a shape and position.

What QuickTime and the built-in recorder capture

The recorder built into macOS lets you choose a microphone. Apple documents an Include System Audio option only from macOS 27, so on earlier versions the sound of the app you are demonstrating never reaches the file. How to screen record on a Mac with audio explains exactly what each built-in route captures, version by version, and ReScreen vs QuickTime Player compares the two.

Why separate tracks matter

A single flattened track cannot be repaired: if the notification chime lands on your best sentence, it stays there. Separate tracks turn the same mistake into a slider. Why separate audio tracks save your screen recording goes through the failure cases, and audio cleanup covers what you can do to each track afterwards.

Screen and audio recording software that captures the desktop

This is screen and audio recording software for a Mac: it can capture the computer screen as video on a Mac, together with the desktop's own sound and your microphone simultaneously, and the camera too if you switch it on. People sometimes call that a screenshot recording with audio. Still screenshots carry no sound, so what you want is a screen recording, and the guide to taking a screenshot on a Mac covers the stills. The result is video of the computer screen with its audio on a Mac, as one file with the tracks kept apart inside the project. That is true whether you think of the system as macOS or by its older name, Mac OS X, often written OSX: ReScreen needs macOS 13 Ventura or later, so OS X era releases are not supported.