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Features
Everything ScreenMan ships, organised by what you do.
Three groups: capture (record + screenshot), edit (the editor), ship (export + OCR + history). Every item below is in the build you can download today.
01 · Capture
Pick a window. Pick a region. Hit record.
Recording and screenshots in one app, with the same set of source pickers, audio toggles, and overlays.
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System audio
Microphone
Webcam bubble
Shortcut⌘⇧R
⌘⇧5
Recording
- Full screen, single window, or region
- System audio, microphone, or both — independent toggles
- 30 fps capture, unlimited duration
- Pre-recording countdown
- Auto-recovery of orphan recordings on next launch
Screenshots
- Full screen, region drag-to-select, or window picker
- Scroll-stitch — auto-scrolls long pages, stitches into one tall PNG
- Freeze-frame viewer (lightbox over current screen)
- Pre-capture countdown
- Output: PNG to ~/Pictures/ScreenMan/
Overlays + HUD
- Cursor highlight — 4 colours, 3 sizes
- Spotlight — configurable opacity
- Keystroke display — pill or minimal, 4 positions
- Floating webcam bubble — 3 sizes, draggable
- Per-overlay "show in recording" toggle
02 · Edit
A real editor. Not a recorder bolt-on.
Multi-segment timeline. Trim, split, speed up, caption, zoom in. Full undo. Audio waveform.
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Timeline
- Multi-segment editing with trim and split (S key)
- Drag to reorder segments
- Variable speed: 0.5× / 0.75× / 1× / 1.5× / 2×
- Audio waveform display (wavesurfer.js)
- Full undo / redo
Captions
- Time-coded captions
- Burn-in to the video, or
- Export standalone .srt
- Edit text + timing inline
Zoom + frame
- Zoom markers with up to 4 keyframes each
- Scale 1×–4×, x/y position per keyframe
- Smooth keyframe interpolation
- Drop-shadow frame style
- Aspect-ratio-aware export
03 · Ship
Export to where it lives.
Four MP4 presets, GIF, WebM, SRT. OCR text extraction via macOS Vision. Local SQLite history that auto-prunes.
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Export formats
- MP4 — H.264 + AAC. Presets: Original (CRF 18), 1080p HQ, 720p Twitter, 720p Compact
- GIF — 15 fps, 640px max, 2-pass palette
- WebM — passthrough (fast)
- SRT — standalone subtitle file
OCR
- Native macOS Vision framework
- On-device — no image leaves your Mac
- Supports any Vision-recognised language
History
- Local SQLite (better-sqlite3)
- Auto-prunes entries older than 30 days
- Filter by type (screenshots / recordings)
- Inline panel in the main window