Record your screen with system audio, as MP4, with no watermark.

Set everything before recording starts

A compact control bar appears before the recording begins. Choose system audio, microphone, camera, cursor visibility, quality, and frame rate (60 fps by default), plus an optional 3, 5, or 10 second countdown. No extra audio driver is needed.

Shotnix keeps itself out of the video: no shutter sounds, and none of its toasts, menus, HUD, timer, or camera bubble. Its editor and Settings windows still record normally if you want to show them.

Your camera and your shortcuts, recorded separately

• Turn on the camera in the recording bar. A round live preview floats on screen while you record and never appears in the screen capture. The camera is saved as its own track, so its shape, size, background, and position are chosen afterwards in the editor.
• With Show keyboard shortcuts on, the shortcuts you press (⌘ and ⌃ combinations, Esc, function keys) are recorded and appear as keycaps in the video. Plain typing is never recorded. This needs Accessibility permission.
• The pointer is captured as data (Settings → Recording → Editable cursor, on by default), so the editor can redraw the real macOS cursor smoothly at any size and zoom in on your clicks.

Screen recording with webcam →

Area, window, or display

Record a dragged region, pick a window from a preview list with app icons, or record a whole display. Recording a window targets only that window, so overlapping windows and notifications stay out of the video. It follows the window when you move or resize it, even onto another display, and includes the app's menus, popovers, and sheets.

Live HUD, pause, and the menu bar timer

• A draggable HUD shows elapsed time, active audio state, and microphone level. It never takes focus from the app you're recording.
• Pause and resume from the HUD, the menu, or a shortcut you assign. Paused time is cut from the video, your voice, and the camera.
• Discard a take from the HUD, with a confirmation.
• The menu bar icon turns into a red dot with a live timer. To stop, click Stop in the HUD or click the timer, press ⌃⌘Esc from any app, or press Esc while Shotnix is in front. Esc in other apps is left alone, so closing a dialog never ends the take.
• Record Area, Record Window, Record Fullscreen, Pause, and Stop Recording can each have a global shortcut.

Built for long recordings

• Recordings survive crashes. If Shotnix quits unexpectedly or the Mac loses power, the recording and your camera are recovered the next time Shotnix opens.
• Video and audio buffers are written on a dedicated queue, so recordings do not stutter when the app is busy.
• Interrupted recordings (display disconnect, sleep, disk full) save everything captured so far instead of discarding the file.
• A microphone that drops out or is unplugged doesn't shift the rest of the audio. Shotnix switches to another microphone and tells you.
• No microphone connected? Recording still works, and Shotnix says so.
• Recording refuses to start when disk space is critically low, rather than failing halfway.
• Recordings keep Retina-scale dimensions. 5K, 6K, and More Space displays record in HEVC, since H.264 can't encode frames that large.

Then turn it into a demo

Stop, and the recording opens in the Shotnix video editor with a zoom on each burst of clicks and the cursor redrawn smooth and sharp. Add captions from your narration, cut words from the transcript, restyle your camera, clean up your voice, and export MP4 or GIF. Everything runs on your Mac.

See the video editor →

How to do it in Shotnix

1. Choose Record Area, Window, or FullscreenFrom the menu bar Command Center or with the recording shortcuts you assign in Settings.
2. Pick your audio and video optionsToggle system audio, microphone, and camera, and choose cursor visibility, quality, FPS, and an optional countdown.
3. RecordThe live HUD shows elapsed time and audio levels; pause from it when you need a break. The menu bar icon shows a red dot with a timer.
4. StopClick Stop in the HUD or the red timer in the menu bar, or press ⌃⌘Esc from any app. Esc also stops while Shotnix is in front.
5. Edit, or keep it as isThe MP4 is saved to your save folder. Open it in the editor to zoom, caption, and export; Edit Last Recording in the menu bar reopens it later.

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