Screen recording and editing for Mac.

Pick a display, a single window or a region you drag out. System audio, your microphone and your camera record to separate tracks that stay in sync, including when you pause. Koala leaves its own sounds out of the system audio.

The floating recording bar, the outline around your source and the menu-bar controls never show up in the footage. Pause, stop and cancel also have global shortcuts, which work without Accessibility or Input Monitoring access.

Stop, and the project opens in the editor. The original files are kept apart from your edits.

Sources

Display, window or region

Frame rate

30 or 60 fps

Audio

System audio and microphone, on separate tracks

Camera

Its own track, with a device picker and preview

Controls

Countdown, pause, stop and cancel

Trim, split and ripple delete on the timeline. Edits never rewrite the source media, and zooms, titles and captions move with every cut. Undo and redo work the way they do in any Mac app.

If you turn on click recording, Koala suggests zooms where your clicks cluster. Each suggestion is an ordinary zoom on its own lane, so you can adjust its focus, timing and scale, or delete it. Manual zooms take a focus point, a scale from 1× to 3× and an ease duration.

Place the camera in a circle or a rounded rectangle and drag it into position in the preview. The preview and the export use the same compositor, so the file matches what you saw.

Add M4A, MP3 or WAV audio on a separate lane. Move, trim, split or mute each clip and set its volume up to 200%. Clean Voice, Podcast and Warm presets give microphone recordings and audio clips a voice processing chain with a high-pass filter, gate, de-esser, compressor and limiter.

Timeline

Trim, split, ripple delete, markers, frame stepping

Zoom

Suggested from clicks or set by hand, 1× to 3×

Audio

Separate audio clips, volume and voice processing

Camera

Circle or rounded rectangle, with border, shadow and mirroring

Titles

Timed, with position, size and an optional background

Canvas

• Eucalyptus
• Sand
• Midnight
• Paper

Adjustable padding and corner radius

Koala writes captions from the edited timeline with Apple's on-device speech recognition. Choose the language and whether to listen to the microphone, system and imported audio, or both.

Word timings are aligned to the speech waveform. You can still fix any line: edit the text, nudge a single word, split or merge lines, or search the transcript to find a moment.

Start from one of six presets, or set the font, size, color, background and placement yourself. Captions can highlight the current word and animate in, and right-to-left text is supported.

Recognition

On-device, from microphone, system and imported audio

Styles

Six presets with animated previews, or your own

Animation

Fade, rise, pop or typewriter

Output

Burned into the video, or an SRT file

Available languages depend on your macOS version and the speech models installed on your Mac.