For teachers, coaches and creators — not video editors

Press record. Smart Director handles the rest.

Most screen recorders hand you a blank timeline and wish you luck. OurScreen zooms in on what matters, frames your camera, cuts your "um"s, and captions your voice while you're still talking — so what comes out the other end is already good enough to send.

Download for Mac — free 15-day trial See what it replaces
A creator at a glass desk recording with a phone on a tripod, OurScreen's home screen open on their laptop

Pick a mode, start recording. Explain, Teach & Record, Polish & Export, or Import & Polish — one app for the whole lesson.

Auto Zoom on every click· Filler words cut automatically· Camera framed and cleaned up· Captions written as you speak· Draw on the screen live, mid-recording
Direct answer

What is OurScreen?

OurScreen is a local-first Mac screen recorder and teaching video studio for people who explain lessons, products, software, prompts, and ideas. It records your screen, camera, microphone, system audio, clicks, captions, and Screen Draw moments in one focused workflow, then helps you polish and export without jumping between apps.

Teachers

Record clearer lessons

Capture screen, camera, voice, system audio, Explain drawings, and captions while keeping raw class recordings on your Mac.

Creators

Ship demos faster

Use Auto Zoom, Camera styles, title cards, caption styles, and custom backgrounds to turn a normal screen recording into a finished video.

Local-first

Review before upload

Your recording stays local by default, so you decide what gets exported, shared, uploaded, or deleted.

Built around how you actually work

Three ways people use OurScreen to get out the door faster

A creator recording an evening lesson in OurScreen, headphones on, coffee in hand

Educator

The 6pm lesson recording

You're recording a walkthrough after a full day of teaching. You don't have energy left to also learn a timeline. Hit record, talk through it once, export.

A course creator's overhead desk setup with a laptop running OurScreen, camera lens, and tripod within reach

Course creator

The tenth module this month

You've got forty more lessons to record. OurScreen's per-click zoom and auto-captions mean lesson six looks as polished as lesson one, without you doing it by hand.

Someone recording a quick walkthrough in OurScreen from a relaxed home desk setup

Support & onboarding

The "just send them a Loom" ask

Someone needs a walkthrough in the next ten minutes. Explain mode turns your screen into a whiteboard mid-recording, so you can point and draw as you talk.

The whole workflow, timed

From "let me record this" to "here's the link"

0:00

Record

Screen, camera and mic together. Say "um," stumble on a word, keep going — Smart Director will handle it later.

while you talk

Auto-polish, live

Auto Zoom follows your clicks, your camera gets framed and cleaned up, and captions are written in real time. Nothing to schedule, nothing to render and wait for.

+30 sec

Export & share

One export, sized for wherever it's going — a course platform, Slack, YouTube. No re-encoding trial and error.

Explain and Screen Draw, in a real take

You don't add the annotations later. You draw them while you're already talking.

OurScreen Explain mode circling a traction statistic live on a pitch deck slide, with an automatic Urdu caption reading along at the bottom Circling the number that matters, mid-pitch
OurScreen Explain mode used as a blackboard, with the presenter's camera glowing gold while they sketch a diagram Turning the screen into a blackboard
Captions and titles, written as you talk

97 languages, real Urdu script, and a title card that builds itself

OurScreen auto-captioning a real recording in Urdu script, 461 caption segments generated on-device Real Urdu captions, generated on-device
OurScreen caption style picker showing Beast, Hormozi, Creator, Neon, Sunset, Nastaliq, and other caption styles Pick a style, not a font-and-shadow project
OurScreen's editing steps card building a numbered 'Today we are learning' agenda that appears one item at a time A lesson agenda that types itself out
What "automatic" actually replaces

The four things that usually eat your editing time

The usual wayThe OurScreen way
Zooming in
ManualScrub the timeline, keyframe a crop, guess the timing, repeat for every click you made.
Auto ZoomZooms to wherever you clicked, at the moment you clicked it. Nothing to keyframe.
"Um"s and dead air
ManualListen back at half speed, cut each one by hand, hope you didn't miss any.
Clean SpeechFiller words and long pauses are found and trimmed for you before export.
Camera framing
ManualPosition a webcam layer, pick a shape, resize it every time your screen changes.
Camera stylesCircle, rounded or custom framing, sized and placed once, held steady the whole take.
Pointing things out
ManualRe-record with a separate annotation tool, or add arrows after the fact and hope they line up.
Screen DrawCircle, underline or write on the screen mid-recording, right when you're talking about it.
Why not just use Premiere or CapCut

Those are editors. You open a blank timeline and you supply the skill. OurScreen is a director — it makes the editing decisions while you record, so most exports need no timeline at all.

No editing vocabulary requiredIf you've never heard of a keyframe, you'll never need to.
Nothing to learn before lesson oneRecord your first video the same day you install it.
Still editable when you want itOpen the timeline any time — Smart Director's choices are just a starting point, not a lock-in.
Pricing

Try it free. Pay once you're relying on it.

Trial

$0 / 15 days

  • Full Smart Director access
  • No credit card to start
  • One Mac
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Yearly

$25 / year

  • Everything, unlimited recordings
  • All future features included
  • Priority email support
Buy yearly — $25

Founder Lifetime

$59 once

  • Own it forever, limited spots
  • Every future update, no renewal
  • Early access to new features
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