Make beautiful screen recordings.
CineScreen turns raw captures into polished product videos — smooth cursor motion, automatic zooms, gradient backdrops, and a Metal export pipeline that never drops a frame.
A whole studio in your menu bar.
CineScreen sits quietly in your menu bar until you need it. Tap record, pick a window, and the editor opens with your clip already loaded — ready to scrub, style, and export.
Pixel-perfect ScreenCaptureKit
Native Apple capture API drives every frame. Pick a window, a display, or a region — CineScreen pipes the raw stream straight into a Metal compositor.
Polish without thinking
Smooth cursor motion, automatic click highlights, and zoom keyframes you can tune in the timeline. Style your recordings with gradient backdrops, padding, and rounded window chrome.
AVAssetWriter, no compromises
A dedicated export compositor renders the final video offline at locked frame rate. ProRes or H.264, no dropped frames, signed and notarized .dmg.
From menu bar to finished cut in four steps.
Install
Drag CineScreen into Applications. The menu-bar icon appears on first launch.
Grant access
Toggle Screen Recording permission for CineScreen in System Settings and relaunch. Same flow as any native recorder.
Record
Open the floating control bar, pick a window or display, hit record. When you stop, your clip drops straight into the editor.
Export
Style, scrub, and tune. The Metal compositor renders every frame offline at locked frame rate.
Ready when you say action.
Free, open source, MIT licensed. Tagged releases on GitHub Actions — signed and notarized for macOS.