macOS · motion-activated screen recorder
Skip the editing. Stop recording dead air.
made for
If your work has pauses — thinking, clicking, waiting for a render — Kinetic captures only the moments that matter. A few of the shapes that takes:
Product walkthroughs and how-tos, with pauses collapsed and shortcuts overlaid on-screen.
Figma, Sketch, Procreate, Photoshop, Blender — an all-day creative session as a timelapse.
An hour of implementation becomes a two-minute speedpaint. Apparently people watch these.
"Here's what I did this week." Kinetic cuts the dead clicks so your team actually watches it.
Schedule recordings to auto-start. Embed walkthrough clips in READMEs, help centers, or onboarding.
Let it run while you reproduce a flaky issue. Kinetic only saves the moments something happens.
motion gating
Pixel-diff detection runs on every frame. The moment the screen changes, Kinetic captures. When it stops, so does the recording.
keystroke overlay
Modifier combos and special keys appear on screen. Regular typing is skipped, so the overlay never gets in the way.
capture modes
Pin to a single app and Kinetic follows it across tabs and moves. Drag-select a region for surgical recordings. Multi-monitor works.
export
MP4, MOV, or animated GIF. Speed up on export for instant timelapses. Custom watermark, or none at all.
audio
Capture what your speakers play, or narrate over the recording with your microphone. Either source mixes straight into the file as AAC — no second track, no sync drift.
scheduled recording
Pick a time. Walk away. Kinetic starts recording on its own — ideal for standups, workshops, overnight runs, or anything scheduled on a calendar that isn't yours.
local · private · yours
Every recording stays on your machine. No cloud upload, no account, no telemetry on what's on your screen. Save wherever your policy — or your habit — says: a local folder, Dropbox, iCloud, a network share, an encrypted drive, or nowhere.
Recordings are written straight to disk where you tell Kinetic to put them. Nothing crosses the network.
Pro activation is a single offline token verified against an embedded public key — no server round-trip on every launch.
Capture, encode, GIF export, watermarking — all happens on your machine. Pull the network cable and Kinetic keeps recording.
Defense, legal, healthcare, finance — anywhere a cloud upload of your screen isn't allowed. Kinetic never uploads, so the policy doesn't lock you out.
questions
Yes. Full-screen capture with a watermark and 5-minute cap.
Ventura 13 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel.
Your license activates on any Mac you own.
No. One-time. You own this version forever.
Every update to 1.x is included in your purchase.