macOS · records screen, window, or region
Record your screen, cut it on a storyboard, and hand it off. Pay once — and your videos never live on our servers. No subscription, no watermark, no one watching over your shoulder.
Download for macOS · free beta Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 15+The whole loop lives on your Mac. Stopping the recording is saving it — an ordinary MP4 with an open, documented sidecar right beside it.
⌥⌘R from anywhere. Screen, window, or a dragged region, with mic, system audio, and a repositionable film-frame camera. Pause and scrap-the-last-10-seconds live.
Your take opens as segment cards, auto-split at your pauses. Trim, split, snip chunks from the middle, reorder — and play the edit itself, right in the window. Delete a sentence in the transcript, delete the clip.
A plain MP4, a folder with a self-contained player page for your own cloud, or straight to your Google Drive. Every card tells you exactly where the bytes go.
The workflow incumbents charge a monthly seat for — without the seat, the meter, or the surveillance.
Record and export as long as you like. A watermark would contradict the whole idea that you own it.
On-device transcription — free, private, offline. Click a line to seek; delete a line to cut. Nothing is uploaded.
Titles, summaries, and chapters run on your own Anthropic key — pennies a video, no credit meters gating the feature.
A self-contained player page — chapters and transcript baked in, zero external requests — that lives in your Drive or S3, not ours.
Recordings are ordinary MP4s in your Movies folder with an open JSON sidecar. Delete the app; keep every video.
We deliberately don't build watch-percentage surveillance. Your recipients aren't a funnel.
Takereel ships with a real command line. Claude — or any agent on your Mac — can record, cut, and hand off, while every byte stays on your machine.
One symlink puts it on your PATH:
ln -s /Applications/Takereel.app/Contents/MacOS/takereel-cli /usr/local/bin/takereel
Record, blade, trim, reorder, set the look, export — the whole pipeline runs from the terminal. No clicks required.
takereel schema prints a machine-readable catalog of every command, so an agent learns the surface without any documentation.
Edits live in a small project file next to the recording. The original media is never modified — and nothing is ever uploaded.
Pay once. Your videos never touch our servers.
macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Free during testing.
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