Smooth Recorder
Smooth Recorder is a native Mac app that enables users to record polished demos and tutorials with automatic zooms following clicks, smooth cursor animations, one-click captions, and transcript editing. It also supports screenshots, GIFs, scrolling captures, and text extraction. All editing and processing happen locally on the Mac for privacy. It is available for a one-time payment with no subscription.
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- 69 out of 100, Needs improvement
- Accessibility
- 96 out of 100, Good
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- 96 out of 100, Good
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Excited to hunt Smooth Recorder today. Lately, I’ve been making more tutorials, so I’ve tried quite a few screen recording tools on Mac, including Screen Studio. Smooth Recorder genuinely holds its own against them and in a few areas, I actually prefer it. What stands out: • Automatic zooms + smooth cursor: Recordings already look edited when you hit stop. • Transcript editing: Edit the video by editing the text, and remove filler words or long pauses in one click. • More than video: Screenshots, scrolling captures, GIFs, text extraction, and smart redaction are all built in. • Native + private: It’s a real macOS app, and captions, OCR, and redaction all happen locally on your Mac. A seriously polished tool for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or product content on Mac.
byalexai · Imported from Product Hunt
How do the on device captions hold up on a long recording with an accent, say Indian English? Does it need a model download first?
sagar_deore · Imported from Product Hunt
I love the product and bought it. Here is some feedback: recording is easy and straight forward. UI and UX is clean but here is what I would like to see improved: 1. Dragging the cursor or edges of video snippets: the "touch area" is really small. You need to align your cursor perfectly on the edge of the video pill or the timeline cursor in order to drag it 2. The "undo" button next to the trash icon. I just lost like 30 minutes of cutting work because I understood the undo button to be a "undo your last action" turns out this undos all your editing you did on the clip without asking you in a popup if you really intend to do this. Either add a popup for this destructive action asking the user if they want to undo all their work or change the btn to be a real "undo the last action" btn and add a redo next to that. 3. Often clicking a video snippet does not select it. It only works when your timeline cursor is on that snippet you want to select and you click to the left of your timeline cursor. Other than that: congrats on launching such a well executed product!
moritz_schultz · Imported from Product Hunt
Auto zoom following clicks is right until it lands on a click that didn't matter, and then you're back in the timeline anyway. Can a zoom be moved after the fact? How does this compare to CleanShot Pro?
justin_rockmore · Imported from Product Hunt