Screen Motion — Screen Recorder & Video Editor for Mac

Automatic zoom

Every click gets its close-up.

Screen Motion remembers where you clicked and moves the camera there for you. Keep the zooms it suggests, drag them on the timeline, or add your own.

The whole frame moves in, and follows the cursor while it is there.

It follows your clicks. The pointer is recorded as data, not pixels, so zooms land exactly where the action was.

Two ways to look closer. Move the whole camera in, or hold a glass over the detail and keep the rest in view.

Yours to edit. Every zoom is a block on the timeline. Stretch it, move it, change its depth, or delete it.

Formats and layouts

Talk, show, or both at once.

Open on camera to set the scene, split the frame while you explain, tuck into a corner while you click, or step in front of the screen with your room cut away. Layouts sit on the timeline and the moves between them animate on their own, and the same video reshapes for wide, square or vertical.

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Layouts in this video

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Format

Layouts that fit the shape. Split sits side by side when wide, shares the frame in a square, and stacks your screen over your camera in a reel, with the screen following your pointer.

Transitions with depth. Fade, slide and zoom, or a 3D flip, tumble or cube between layouts.

A camera that behaves. Face tracking keeps you centred, and the background behind you can be cut away on your Mac.

Cursor and motion

Shaky hands in. Steady motion out.

Your pointer is redrawn from scratch for every frame. Move your mouse over the stage: the thin line is what you did, the amber line is what your viewers see.

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Cursor

Click effect

Smoothed paths. Jitter and overshoot are taken out, and the cursor glides between the places you meant to go.

Sixteen cursor styles. Classic arrows, minimal dots and rings, or bright stickers, at any size.

Clicks you can see and hear. Ripples, rings and sparks, a press, bounce or tilt, and an optional click sound.

Style

Framed like a product shot.

Put the recording on a backdrop, round its corners and lift it off the page. Try the controls, they are the ones in the app.

Wallpaper

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More than 100 wallpapers are built in, 22 of them moving. Or use a gradient, a solid colour, or your own image.

Captions

Captions in English. وبالعربية

Screen Motion writes captions from your voice and lights up each word as you say it. Arabic and right-to-left text are first-class, not an afterthought.

Transcribed on your Mac. Your voice is not uploaded to be captioned.
Five languages. English, Arabic, French, German and Spanish, or let it detect English and Arabic.
Styled to match. Fonts, weights, plates and highlight colours, saved as presets.

Blur and highlight

Hide what is private. Point at what matters.

Blur an email, a key or a customer's name after you have recorded, or dim everything else so one part of the screen stands out. Both stay on the part you chose through every zoom, with corners as round as you like.

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Blur

Unreadable in every frame, at any zoom. It starts and stops in an instant, so nothing shows while it comes on.

Highlight

Everything else dims, so viewers know where to look. It eases in and out, and several can light up at once.

And the details that add up.

The small things that make the difference between a recording and a finished video.

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Hide what is private

Blur a key, an email or a customer name after you record. Or dim everything else to highlight one part of the screen.

Motion blur

Fast moves pick up a natural blur, the way a camera would film them.

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Shortcuts on screen

The keys you press appear in the video, so viewers can follow along.

Cleaner voice

Keyboard and room noise turned down, on your Mac. Add a voiceover or background music afterwards.

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Export that matches

MP4 up to 4K, or a GIF. The preview and the export share one renderer, so what you see is what you get.

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Scriptable

Start, stop and pause from Raycast, Shortcuts or a script, or from one global hotkey.

Speaker notes

Your talking points float beside the recording and never appear in it.

Camera looks

Natural, warm, cool, vivid or mono. Your iPhone works as the camera too.

Presets

Save a look once and every video you make afterwards matches it.

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Command palette

Every editor action is one search away, with shortcuts for the ones you use most.

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Bring your Screen Studio projects Beta

Open a Screen Studio project and carry on with it here. The recording, the pointer, your cuts and your zooms come across. This is a beta: backgrounds and other styling do not come across yet.

Made for Mac

Designed to feel at home on a Mac.

Screen Motion is made for the Mac and nothing else. It records with ScreenCaptureKit, draws every frame with Metal and writes captions with Apple's own speech recognition, so it is quick, light and familiar from the first click.

Privacy

Your recordings stay on your Mac.

Screen Motion has no cloud to upload to. Recording, captions, voice cleanup, camera cutout and export all run on your own machine.

On your Mac

Recordings and projects. Saved in your Movies folder as files you own.
Captions. Transcribed with Apple's on-device speech recognition.
Camera effects. Face tracking and background removal never leave the app.
Rendering and export. Drawn with Metal on your own GPU.

What we do see

Your purchase. Handled by Polar, our payment provider. We never see your card.
Your licence. Checked so the app knows it is still active.
Nothing you record. No screen content, audio or camera footage is sent to us.

Pricing

Subscribe, or buy it once.

Every feature is in every plan. Subscribe yearly or monthly, pay once, or bring your whole team.

Pro

Coming soon/mo

Billed once a year · Best value

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

All Screen Motion features
Export up to 4K, and GIF
Use it on 2 Macs
Every update while subscribed
Email support

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Lifetime

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Pay once. Yours to keep.

All Screen Motion features
Export up to 4K, and GIF
Use it on 2 Macs
Every update for a year
Email support

Buy once

Team

Custom

5+ seats, volume discounts.

Get in touch for custom pricing if you need 5 or more seats for your team or organisation. Every seat gets everything in Pro.

Contact us

In Egypt, or a student, and cannot pay by card? Pay with InstaPay: email [email protected].

Students and educators get 40% off. How to ask for it

Questions and answers.

Something else on your mind? Write to us.

What does Screen Motion actually do?

It records your screen, and separately records where your pointer was and what you clicked. From that it builds the video: it zooms toward your clicks, redraws a smooth cursor, puts the recording on a background and adds your camera and captions. You can change every one of those decisions in the editor before you export.

Which Macs does it run on?

Screen Motion needs macOS 15 or later. It is a native app that renders with Metal, and it is at its best on Apple silicon.

Is there a Windows version?

No. Screen Motion is built for Mac only, on Apple's own capture and graphics frameworks.

Can I bring my Screen Studio projects?

Yes, as a beta. Open a Screen Studio project in Screen Motion, or drop it on the home screen, and it becomes a Screen Motion project with its recording, pointer, cuts and zooms. Backgrounds, masks and other styling are not brought across yet, and the original project is left untouched. Screen Motion is not affiliated with Screen Studio.

Do my recordings get uploaded anywhere?

No. Recordings are saved on your Mac, and captions, voice cleanup and camera effects are processed there too. See the privacy policy for the details.

Can I try it before paying?

Yes. Recording and editing are free, so you can see exactly what your video will look like. Exporting needs a plan, so try everything first and buy only when you are happy with the result.

What is the difference between subscribing and paying once?

A subscription includes every update for as long as it runs. The Lifetime plan is a single payment: it includes every version released in the year after you buy, and those versions keep working for good. To move to a later version after that, you can renew.

Is there a discount for students?

Yes. Students and educators get 40% off a Lifetime licence, or off the first year of a yearly subscription. Email us proof that you study or teach, such as a photo of your ID card, and we send you a code. Here is how.

Can I pay with InstaPay?

Yes. If you live in Egypt, or you are a student, and cannot pay by card, email [email protected] with the plan you want. We will send you the InstaPay details, and once your payment arrives we send you your licence key.

Do you have plans for teams?

Yes. For 5 or more seats we price by hand, with a discount that grows with the team. Write to us with how many seats you need, and we send you a quote and a single invoice.

How many Macs can I use it on?

One licence key works on 2 Macs at a time. To move to another Mac, choose Deactivate This Mac in the app's Licence window and activate the key on the new one.

How do I manage or cancel my subscription?

Subscriptions are handled by Polar. Use the link in your receipt email, or open the customer portal, to change your plan, update your card or cancel. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for.

Does it support Arabic?

Yes. Captions can be transcribed in Arabic and are laid out right-to-left, and a recording that mixes English and Arabic can be detected automatically.

Beautiful screen recordings, effortlessly.