I've been paying for screen recording tools for years. Loom, Screen Studio, the usual lineup. Every time I hit the free-tier ceiling I'd grumble, pay, and move on.
A few weeks ago I stopped grumbling and opened Claude Code instead.
Threelane is what came out - a desktop screen recorder with a built-in editor. Three things I wanted that nothing else gave me in one app:
Three lanes, one recorder. Screen + webcam + iPhone (paired over WiFi via QR) recording into a single timeline.
Cursor-following zoom lanes. The Screen Studio feature I actually pay for. Drop a zoom lane, it tracks your cursor automatically.
One recording, every aspect ratio. Re-crop the same take for Shorts, YouTube, and square social without re-recording.
I'm the builder behind Threelane, shipping it from Dubai.
Why I built it
I make a lot of product demos and tech reels. Every smooth multi-cam tool I tried was either subscription-locked, cloud-locked, or both. Loom is fine for talking heads but breaks once you want a second camera. Riverside is great but pricey and online-only. ScreenStudio nailed cursor zooms but it's Mac-only and paid. Nothing was free, local, AND multi-cam. I got tired of waiting for someone to build it, so I did.
Threelane is a recorder built for one job: making product demos, technical walkthroughs, and tech content where your screen and your face need to look good together.
If you have ever recorded a feature demo, a launch video, a tutorial, or a tech reel, you know the pain. You record the screen. You record yourself on a webcam. Maybe you film your phone with another camera for a mobile demo. Then you spend an hour in a video editor lining everything up. Threelane does that in one click.
