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Phia is a native macOS screen recorder designed for creating beautiful screen videos. It includes a lightweight timeline and applies intelligent zoom, smooth cursor motion, cinematic movement, and captions. New features like animated brand titles and flexible layouts with slides, text, images, and video help recordings feel polished and intentional, everything runs locally on your Mac and works offline.

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Hello everyone, I’m Zaid, the maker of Phia. Phia started as a small Chrome extension because I personally struggled to make screen recordings look good without spending hours editing or paying for tools that were tied with expensive subscription paywalls. The community support on the first launch changed everything and helped me grow it into something real. With that momentum, I finally built what I originally set out to create, a fully native macOS app. I chose to go native because I wanted real performance and freedom to build features properly, not compromises. Over the last 4 months, I’ve been working full-time on Phia for macOS, focusing on speed, polish, and that Apple-level experience. Phia now includes features like: Brand titles, Animations, Slides & text layers, Custom asset layouts and more features designed specifically for screen-based presentations One thing that mattered a lot to me was fair, affordable pricing. I wanted Phia to feel premium without being priced only for big teams or agencies. This launch is just the beginning, there’s a lot more coming, and I’m excited to build it together with feedback from this community. Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or questions. Thanks so much for checking it out

Looks super clean and thoughtful. Love the native macOS + offline focus!

Quick questions: how much control do you get over the auto-zoom and motion? And does it still hold up for longer, messier recordings (30–60 min)?

Maker

 Yes definitely, Longer recordings works as well, you can add manual or auto zoom and adjust them accordingly :)

interesting! we actually using clueso right now and it's kind of expensive

Maker

 Thank you, hope you like it :)

Wow, good job Zaid, really beautiful app!
I'm wondering if it supports recording from cable connected iphones with iphone mockup? This is one feature that keeps me using another product for so long - because I mainly need to record mobile app demos.

Maker

 Hello Jeff, that feature is in the roadmap and I am working on it right now, would be available soon for ipad and iphones with better frames as well :)

how does the rendering performance hold up for longer recordings?

Maker

 Hello Landy, The performance is good, its processes only required duration at a time to deliver smooth rendering performance even on playback

Is there an automatic mode? For example, I need to create a video presentation for my startup to launch it on Product Hunt. This is a screen recording in the browser. I’ve never used such apps before. Looking at the screenshots now, I’m intimidated — I realize that for a 15-second video, I’d have to spend hours learning the tool.

It would be great if I could just specify the type of video, what exactly I need to record, and the effects I want, and the program would use AI or other algorithms to produce a ready-made video itself.

This idea really lowers the entry barrier. I think in apps like this, it’s key.

Maker

 Hello Mykyta, Thank you for the suggestion, right now, it allows to record the videos you want, interact with them, and once you stop recording you would already get a good professional quality video with smooth mouse movements, auto zoom, backgrounds etc. and if you want, you can furthermore edit it according to your needs using layouts like texts, slides, custom assets imports etc.

Beautiful UI and love the automation. I do wonder how well it performs for dense or fast-moving screen recordings. Curious to try it out.

Maker

 Hello Cathy, Glad you like it, I have done numerous tests personally with fast pased recordings, and it performs very well on those as well :)

When someone is deciding between Phia and the most common alternatives (cinematic auto-zoom editors, cloud-first recorders, and all-in-one capture tools), what’s the one switching trigger you see most often—and where do those other tools consistently fall short for your target user?
Maker

 Many cinematic auto-zoom tools focus heavily on automation but offer limited control over branding and presentation as I have been personally using them a lot. Cloud-first recorders often push users into ongoing subscription costs and hosted workflows, even when they just want to record and export locally. The goal is to give great options to people for their brands, presentations and being fast to adopt to the needs

Congrats on the launch! The combination of screen recording with built-in design elements like brand titles and layouts feels very intentional, not just record and export. How flexible the animation and layering system is, can everything be adjusted after recording, or is most of the structure defined upfront before you hit record?

Maker

 Hello Viktor, Everything is built to seamlessly adjust post recording as well, the texts, animations, timing all can match your desired needs :)

Lovely y’all gratz.
Maker

 Thank you Jimmy :)

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