Recorda

Lined up row by row

Recorda next to Screen Studio, Cap and OpenScreen, in the areas that matter when you are making a demo. Every cell comes from what the app says about itself on its own public pages, checked October 2026.

Recorda
Screen Studio
Cap
OpenScreen
ZoomAutomatic zoom and pan
Yes, framed to the app you are using and planned by a director
Yes, plus manual zoom
Zooms in the Studio Mode editor
Auto or manual zooms
Says why a zoom happened
Every zoom has a name and one sentence of why
Not listed
Not listed
Not listed
Leaves out zooms that mean nothing
Wandering, flung clicks and ⌘Z’d clicks make none
Not listed
Not listed
Zooms on significant actions, per a third-party review
Manual zoom
Add, move and adjust zooms on the timeline
Yes
Draw your own zooms, 1x to 4.5x
Auto or manual zooms
MotionCursor smoothing and click effects
Spring cursor with presets, click effects
Smooth paths, click effects, editable style
Sizing, smoothing, click effects
Smoothing, themes, click effects
Motion blur
Cursor and camera
Yes
Natural motion blur
Yes
Click and ripple effects
Eleven effects, from Ripple to Confetti, with sounds
Click effects
Click effects
Click effects
Cursor switches shape on its own
Follows the system cursor: arrow, hand, I-beam, resize
Style and size are chosen after recording
Not listed
Not listed
RecordingQuality
Native pixels, up to 120 fps; export to 2160p
Export to 4K at 60 fps
Records up to 4K at 60 fps
Not listed
What you can capture
A display or a window
Display, window or custom area
Screen, camera and microphone
A window or the whole screen
Camera
A bubble you can move, resize and mirror
Five layouts, face tracking
Separate camera track
Picture-in-picture overlay
EditHide private info
Automatic scan, boxes follow the recording
Masks you place after recording
Mask, blur or pixelate; or dim all else
Blur regions in the editor
Captions
On this Mac when macOS allows
Made on your Mac
AI captions and transcripts
On-device, works offline
Intro and outro cards
21 animated templates and brand kits
Not listed
Animated titles, no intro cards listed
Not listed
Transitions between clips
Dips and blends, each with its own length and curve
Animated between camera layouts
Crossfade between clips
Not listed
Remove a window from the video
Filled with the real screen from before and after
Not listed
Not listed
Not listed
ExportAspect ratios
Six shapes, a free crop, and a look for each place you post
16:9, 1:1, 9:16
Not listed
Multiple aspect ratios
Formats
MP4 (HEVC or H.264), ProRes, GIF; size limit
MP4 up to 4K, GIF up to 1080p
Local export or link
MP4 or GIF

“Not listed” means we found no mention of it on the app’s public pages, not that it is missing. Recorda is not released yet, so its column describes the app as built. Other apps change quickly; check their pages for the latest.

Zoom that has a reason

Every zoom has a name and one sentence saying why. The strongest few are held longer and framed deeper, and anything doubtful is left out.

Nothing zoomed for nothing

A wandering pointer, a click made while it is being flung about and a click undone with ⌘Z make no zoom. The view rests until something happens.

A finish that is built in

Intro and outro cards, transitions between clips, a window removed from the video and private details masked, all in the same editor.

Coming soon

macOS 14 Sonoma or later