Smooth Recorder is a native Mac app for demos and tutorials. It zooms in where you click, smooths your cursor, adds captions on your Mac and puts it all on a nice background. Screenshots get the same features.
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Anas. I made Smooth Recorder because every time I recorded a product demo, recording was the easy part. The editing took an hour: zooming into clicks, hiding a shaky cursor, adding captions, and putting it on a background so it didn't look like a raw screen recording.
So I built an app that does all of that for you.
✨ Features:
• Auto Zoom – Zooms where you click and follows your cursor, so viewers can easily follow along.
• 3D Angles (new in v1.1) – Adds a subtle tilt during zooms for a more cinematic look.
• Smooth Cursor, Camera Bubble & Captions – Captions are generated on your Mac, and you can edit your video by simply deleting words from the transcript.
• Beautiful Screenshots – Press ⌥1, select an area, and it instantly lands on a wallpaper with a shadow, ready to share. Includes 76 wallpapers.
It's a native macOS app (built with SwiftUI, not a web app in a window).
💰 Early access: $9 one-time.
❌ No subscription.
❌ No account required.
I'd love to hear what you record with it and what features you'd like to see next. I read every reply. ❤️
Lately, I’ve been making more tutorials, so I’ve tried quite a few screen recording tools on Mac, including Screen Studio. Smooth Recorder genuinely holds its own against them and in a few areas, I actually prefer it.
What stands out:
• Automatic zooms + smooth cursor: Recordings already look edited when you hit stop. • Transcript editing: Edit the video by editing the text, and remove filler words or long pauses in one click. • More than video: Screenshots, scrolling captures, GIFs, text extraction, and smart redaction are all built in. • Native + private: It’s a real macOS app, and captions, OCR, and redaction all happen locally on your Mac.
A seriously polished tool for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or product content on Mac.
Excited to hunt Smooth Recorder today.
Lately, I’ve been making more tutorials, so I’ve tried quite a few screen recording tools on Mac, including Screen Studio. Smooth Recorder genuinely holds its own against them and in a few areas, I actually prefer it.
What stands out:
• Automatic zooms + smooth cursor: Recordings already look edited when you hit stop.
• Transcript editing: Edit the video by editing the text, and remove filler words or long pauses in one click.
• More than video: Screenshots, scrolling captures, GIFs, text extraction, and smart redaction are all built in.
• Native + private: It’s a real macOS app, and captions, OCR, and redaction all happen locally on your Mac.
A seriously polished tool for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or product content on Mac.
Any plans to include Windows and cover a bigger market? :)
@busmark_w_nikaThanks Nika. Yes, Windows is on the roadmap : )
For now I am focused on making the Mac version great. I'll share it here when it's ready.
Great job with this @mdanassaif ! I love the auto detection and blurring of sensitive details feature.
@itsrakesh Thanks Rakesh : )
Glad you like Smart Redact. No more blurring emails and API keys by hand before sharing a screenshot.