Your camera, on your cue
Drop cues on the timeline to switch between Camera Only, Bubble, Split and Screen Only at any point. The recording underneath stays untouched.
Built for Mac. Priced for humans.
Turn every screen recordinginto a story.
macOS screen recorder with auto-zoom and captions built in. Your demos and tutorials look professionally edited in minutes, not hours.
✦Smart Auto-Zoom✦Camera Layouts & Cues✦Privacy Masking Suite✦4K & Vertical Exports
Loved by founders, designers and engineersA new species of screen recorder. Drishti Studio sets a new standard for recording and editing.
Record once, post everywhere
Turn any recording vertical without recording it again. Pick 9:16 from the editor's aspect menu, then choose Split, Bubble or Presenter for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok.
Switch layouts anytime
Give your camera its own column, float it in a bubble, or stand in front of your screen as a presenter. Change your mind long after the recording is done.
Editing
Cut the mistake. Keep the take.
No re-record, no export to another editor. Cut a fumbled line in two clicks.
Drishti closes the gap and keeps your captions in step.
Cut from your captions.
Read your take like a script, fix a typo, and hit Cut next to the line you fumbled. It becomes its own clip, ready to go.
Scissors on the timeline.
Click where the slip starts, click where it ends, delete the piece. Voilà! It's done.
The little things make the video.
Small details. Big difference.
Clear the desktop. Keep private details private. Bring your words, clicks, and shortcuts into focus. Then choose how you show up.
Camera background
You, minus the room.
Blur it, remove it, or swap in a new scene or your own photo. No green screen, no extra apps.
Hide desktop icons
Keep desktop, lose the clutter
Hide the icons while you record. Everything comes back when you’re done.
Privacy masks
Keep a little to yourself.
Blur the private bits, pixelate a detail, or spotlight what matters.
Cursor effects
Make a point. With personality.
Our own cursor sets, smoother motion, and clicks that stand out.
Keystroke overlays
Let them see the shortcut.
Your shortcuts, right on screen. Walkthroughs that click.
Karaoke captions
Every word. Right on cue.
Karaoke captions that highlight your words as you say them. Automatically.
Sound effects & music
Bring your own sound.
Drop in a whoosh, a click, a music track or your own voiceover. Layer as many as you like, trim each one, set its volume and fade it out.
Use Cases
One recorder. Endless possibilities.
Whether you are showing a design, building in public, or explaining a bug.
Privacy
Your files stay local. No account needed.
No Drishti cloud. Your recordings and projects stay on your Mac. Drishti only checks in for license and updates.
Made for Mac, on purpose.
Drishti Studio is a native macOS app. It feels familiar from the first click, and leans on what macOS already does well.
Apple silicon and Intel. One app runs natively on M-series and Intel Macs with macOS 15 or later.
Performance. Drishti Studio records with ScreenCaptureKit, Apple's own capture framework, so it stays smooth even on big displays.
GPU rendering. Zooms, backgrounds and effects are drawn with Metal on your Mac's GPU, and exports use its built-in video encoder.
Pricing
Record and edit for free.
Choose a plan to unlock every video export option. Every recording and editing feature is free.
Monthly
Most flexibleUnlimited exports, paid month to month.
$9/month
Billed monthly. Switch to yearly anytime.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited exports, no watermark
- Up to 4K, MP4 or ProRes
- Cancel anytime
Yearly
Save 45%Unlimited exports at the lowest monthly price.
$4.92/month
Billed $59 per year. Cancel anytime.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited exports, no watermark
- Up to 4K, MP4 or ProRes
- Priority support
- Use on up to 2 Macs
Lifetime
Best valuePay once and keep every future update.
$99one-time
One payment. Every future update included.
- Every feature included
- Unlimited exports, no watermark
- Up to 4K, MP4 or ProRes
- Priority support
- Use on up to 2 Macs
Prices in USD · Local currency at checkout
Buying for a team or a classroom? Write to team@drishtistudio.app
Testimonials
Don’t take our word for it.
Here’s what people say after recording with Drishti.
Abhinav Singh@Abbylester
Co-founder, Avinya Labs
Been using DrishtiStudio with my team at Avinya Labs and honestly, this has become one of those tools we just keep opening every day. 😂 We use it for pretty much everything: 🎥 Record screens ✂️ Edit demos 🤝 Send videos to clients 🚀 Share product releases 💬 Explain things to the team 🔥 Make launches feel less boring And now you can blur/highlight/pixelate parts of the screen and the mask stays in place even when you change the aspect ratio. Such a small feature, but ridiculously useful.
Sep 2026
Rajat Patel
Founder, Molades
Tried it and bought the lifetime plan on Day 1. Kudos to a fellow designer turned builder 🚀
Apr 2026
Darshil@parmardarshil07
Data Engineer, YouTube (200K+)
Great, I recently started using drishtistudio.app It feels more lightweight, supports native Mac and is very fast
May 2026
Shweta Humnabadkar
Senior UX Designer, Salesforce
You have solved for one of the pain points of every designer who needs to create demo videos. I’d love to try this one out.
Apr 2026
MT@comm1ted0
Data Engineer
cutting multiple sections at once is the small feature i didn’t know i needed fr
Oct 2026
Akshay Raja
AVP & Head of CX, Finnable
This genuinely will save a lot of time in creating dashboard walkthrough and demos!
Apr 2026
Ajay Soni@techo_aj
UI/UX Designer
I think this is the one, which I was looking for.
May 2026
Questions about Drishti Studio
Drishti Studio, if you want recordings that look edited without the editing. It zooms in on your clicks automatically, adds captions, frames your webcam, and exports for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram in one pass. Free to record and edit. Pay only when you export. Video export plans cost $9/month, $59/year, or $99 one-time for Lifetime.
When you first open a new recording in the editor, Auto Zoom automatically generates zooms from your clicks and typing. Every zoom shows up on the timeline, so you can move, adjust or delete any of them after recording.
Yes. Your camera records alongside your screen as a movable overlay, or side by side with it. You can remove or blur your background without a green screen.
Yes. Captions are transcribed from your voice with Apple's speech recognition in 9 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). Viewers can follow along with the sound off.
Yes. The same recording exports as 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 1:1 for feeds. 16:9 goes up to 4K, 9:16 exports at 1080×1920 and 1:1 at 1080×1080, as MP4 or ProRes. Pick 9:16 from the aspect menu in the editor toolbar, then choose Split, Bubble or Presenter in Inspector > Camera > Camera Layout.
Yes. Blur or pixelate any area to hide an API key, email or customer name before export, and stack as many masks as you need. Spotlight keeps the chosen area sharp and dims everything around it to draw attention, without hiding content.
Yes. The app is code-signed and notarized by Apple, and your recording and project files are saved on your Mac and never uploaded. Setup asks for Screen Recording to capture your screen, then Accessibility for typing zooms, keystroke captions and zooms that frame exactly what you clicked. Microphone and Camera are requested only if you use them. Recording, editing and export run on your Mac. Subtitles use Apple's Speech framework: recognition runs on your Mac when the chosen language has an on-device model and macOS permits local recognition; otherwise audio is sent to Apple's speech recognition service, including when both Dictation and Siri are off. Drishti never receives the audio.
Drishti Studio is free to download, record and edit with every feature, including captions in all 9 languages. Saving SRT/VTT subtitle files and copying the transcript are free too. Exporting a video requires Monthly ($9/month), Yearly ($59/year), or Lifetime ($99 one-time, with all future updates). Every paid plan includes unlimited exports: 16:9 up to 4K, 9:16 at 1080×1920 and 1:1 at 1080×1080, as MP4 (H.264 / HEVC) or ProRes, with no watermark.
Any Mac running macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later. It runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1 to M4) and on Intel Macs.