Frame the shot before you press record. Talk over it with your camera in the corner. Draw on the screen while you explain. Then share a file small enough to paste straight into chat.
macOS 15 or later · No account · Nothing leaves your Mac
Klikat shows a resizable frame first. Move it, resize it, check the exact pixel size â then hit record. No throwing away takes because the crop was wrong.
Klikat encodes in HEVC on the GPU and skips frames where nothing changed. In our test, the same clip came out at 683 KB instead of 1,090 KB â and a still screen costs almost nothing.
Draw on the screen while you record: pen, highlighter, arrows, boxes. Highlight the cursor and show clicks, so people can follow what you're doing.
A menu bar and Dock app that starts instantly and stays out of the way.
Drag a red frame anywhere, on any monitor. Move it, resize it from any edge, and it comes back where you left it next time.
Circle the button you mean. Point an arrow at the error. Highlight the line of code. It all lands in the recording, and can fade away on its own a few seconds later.
A floating circle of your webcam, dragged wherever it doesn't block anything. Built-in camera, an external one, or your iPhone via Continuity Camera.
Stop a recording and it goes straight to your own storage while you carry on working. The share link lands on your clipboard, ready to paste.
Pause when the phone rings or a page is loading, then resume. The paused stretch is cut out of the video, so there's no dead air to edit out afterwards.
Hardware HEVC encoding, and frames that don't change are never stored.
QuickTime is free and fine for a quick capture. Here's what it doesn't do.
| QuickTime | Klikat | |
|---|---|---|
| Adjustable region you set before recording | Drag once, no adjusting | Resizable frame, remembered |
| Camera in the recording | Separate recording | Floating bubble |
| Draw on screen while recording | â | Pen, arrows, shapes |
| Cursor highlight and click effects | â | Included |
| Pause and resume | â | Gap removed from the video |
| System audio | Needs extra software | Built in |
| File size | Large H.264 files | HEVC, idle frames skipped |
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Subscriptions are billed through the App Store and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in System Settings âš Apple Account âš Subscriptions. Refunds are handled by Apple.
No. Everything stays on your Mac, saved to a folder you choose. Klikat has no account, no cloud and no analytics, and doesn't need an internet connection to record.
The real app, not a demo: region, window and display recording, camera bubble, cursor effects, audio, pause and countdown. Free recordings stop at five minutes and carry a small watermark, and drawing on screen is a Pro feature.
To storage you own: your own S3 bucket (or an S3-compatible service like Cloudflare R2, Wasabi or MinIO), or your Google Drive. Klikat has no servers in between â your credentials stay in your macOS Keychain and the file goes straight from your Mac to your account.
MP4 or MOV, your choice, encoded in HEVC (H.265) for the smallest size or H.264 for maximum compatibility. Both play in QuickTime, Finder previews, and every major editor.
Yes â record any display, or frame a region on any of them. A single region can't span two monitors, because macOS captures one display at a time.
Any app that can see your screen needs your explicit permission, which is a good thing. You grant it once in System Settings, and again only if you want the camera or microphone.
Any time, in System Settings âš Apple Account âš Subscriptions. You keep Pro until the end of the period you've paid for, then the app carries on working as the free version. Your recordings are yours and are never touched.
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