DaisyCap

A screen recorder and editor for Mac.

DaisyCap records your screen, adds zooms and captions, and exports an MP4 or GIF. Recordings stay on your Mac unless you share one.

Download for macOS See the features

Version 0.2.4 · macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel

DaisyCap's Background tab in light mode, with a demo recording on an ember wallpaper.

What is in the app

The recording setup, with display, window and area choices, a camera bubble, and audio switches.

Record

Capture a display, a window or an area, with system audio and your mic.

The zoom inspector, with the preview zoomed to 2 times and a numbered callout with arrows on screen.

Zooms and callouts

Zooms follow your clicks. Callouts add arrows, boxes and numbered steps.

Delete words to cut

Select words in the captions and press Delete. The video cuts there, and the gap closes.

The Captions tab, with the transcript as editable words and the Save .srt and Save .vtt buttons.

Captions

Whisper or Apple's speech engine transcribes the audio. Edit the lines, then save .srt or .vtt.

The Background tab with the aurora wallpaper, padding and a laptop frame around the recording.

Backgrounds and frames

Wallpapers, gradients and padding, with laptop, phone and tablet frames.

The clip inspector, with speed choices from 0.25 to 8 times and an Ease speed switch.

Silence and speed

Cut silences, speed up typing, and ease a clip's speed in and out.

The export sheet, with social presets, the All three shapes button, GIF or MP4 format, and codec choices.

Export

Save an MP4 or a GIF, or export 16:9, square and vertical in one go.

The Share link window, with a handle field and the line that links last one hour.

Share

Upload an export and copy a link. Links last one hour, then the video is deleted.

Also in the app: blur masks, click and keyboard sounds, importing MP4 and MOV files, an end card, and a shortcut overlay.

Download DaisyCap

Version 0.2.4 for macOS 14 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel.

Download DaisyCap.dmg

This build isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS stops the first launch. Open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, and choose Open Anyway. This version doesn't check for updates by itself. To update, download the newer DMG from this page.