Tight Studio for Mac

Free Mac screen recorder for polished demos, tutorials, and walkthroughs.

Tight Studio is a free macOS screen recorder and video editor that turns rough recordings into polished product demos, tutorials, presentations, and walkthroughs. Record your screen, microphone, and camera, then finish the video in the same app.

Originally launched as a paid app, Tight Studio won Product of the Day on Product Hunt and has been refined for more than a year with feedback from thousands of users. Today, the core recording and editing experience is free forever, with optional paid plans for power users and business teams.

Free features include automatic zooms based on cursor activity, manual zooms anywhere on screen, smooth cursor movement with click animations, stylish cursor icons, custom backgrounds, professional captions that edit like text, arrows and text annotations, dynamic camera layouts, background music, clip trimming, iPhone recording with device mockups, and saved projects that can be reopened and edited later.

Tight Studio also supports multi-clip workflows, AI voiceover, intro and outro slides, text and media overlays, and shareable video links. Free accounts can create up to five share links with a seven-day expiration. Optional paid tiers support ongoing development and provide higher or unlimited usage for features such as multi-clip recording, share links, and AI voiceover.

Smart auto-zoom follows clicks and keystrokes to keep attention on what matters, while automatic cursor animation turns raw mouse movement into smooth, professional paths. The result is a production-ready screen recording without switching between separate recording and editing tools.

Designed for Apple silicon Macs. Tight Studio 3.0.5 requires macOS 13 or later.