ScreenMotion

ScreenMotion records your screen and adds the zooms for you. It watches where you click, pushes the camera in on it, and pulls back out when you move on - so a raw screen capture comes out looking like something you edited for an hour.

Record, stop, done. The zooms are already there when the editor opens. Drag them if you disagree, turn a knob if you want a different feel, and export. Nothing is uploaded anywhere - the recording is a file on your disk.

Highlights

1. Zooms that write themselves - ScreenMotion clusters your clicks, brings the camera in before each one, holds it there, then pulls back out. Nothing to place by hand.
2. A camera that doesn't get seasick - nearby zooms merge instead of yo-yoing, and the frame only pans once the cursor actually leaves the middle of it.
3. Tune the feel, not the frames - zoom level, how long the camera holds, how fast it moves in, how eagerly zooms merge. Four dials, no timeline surgery.
4. An editable timeline - every zoom is a block. Drag it, stretch it, or leave it exactly where ScreenMotion put it.
5. Output that looks finished - a gradient backdrop, padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow, baked into the export at full resolution.
6. Sharp when it zooms - recorded at your display's full detail, so going in 2x shows real pixels instead of a blur.
7. Sound in the same file - system audio and your microphone are recorded into the video, in sync, with nothing to reconcile afterwards.
8. A stop button that isn't in the shot - a small floating pill sits above everything while you record, and ScreenMotion excludes itself from its own capture.
9. One permission, and only one - Screen Recording. Not Accessibility, not Input Monitoring, not anything else.
10. Small, fast, and quiet - built on Apple's own frameworks, so it downloads in seconds, opens instantly, and never phones home.

How it works

While you record, ScreenMotion keeps a log of where your cursor is and when you click. When you stop, it groups those clicks into moments worth looking at and turns each one into a zoom - starting just before the click, holding while you work, easing out when you move on.

The editor shows you exactly what will be exported: same zooms, same backdrop, same corners. What you see playing back is what lands in the file.

Perfect for

1. Product demos - the viewer's eye lands where yours did, without you narrating "up here in the corner".
2. Bug reports and code review - the line you clicked is legible instead of being 11 pixels tall.
3. Tutorials and course material - record once, and don't spend the evening moving a camera around by hand.
4. Changelogs and release notes - a fifteen-second clip that looks deliberate, made in fifteen seconds.