Clipnote for Mac
Record from your menu bar, with system audio and a webcam bubble. Hit ⌥⌘R from anywhere, and your share link is on the clipboard by the time you've switched to Slack.
Version 1.0.5· Universal (Apple silicon & Intel) · macOS Sonoma (14.0) or later · 3.3 MB
Your recordings can't go missing
Most recorders keep the whole video in memory and only write a usable file when you stop. Crash before that and there is nothing to recover — people lose real work this way.
Clipnote writes your recording to your Mac continuously, a second at a time. Force-quit it, run out of battery, pull the plug: what you recorded is still there and still plays. When the app opens again it picks the recording up and uploads it on its own.
- A copy stays on your Mac until youdelete it — uploading doesn't remove it, and nothing is cleaned up behind your back.
- Uploads resume where they stopped. Close the lid at 60% and it carries on from 60%, days later if that's when you reopen it.
- Lost wifi, a full disk or a signed-out session pauses the upload and tells you why. It never costs you the footage.
Draw while you record
Pen, highlighter, arrows, boxes and blur, straight onto the screen with ⌥⌘D. Blur is the one people reach for most — hide a real email address without re-recording. Loom keeps this behind a paid plan.
Trim before it uploads
Cut the fumbling off each end on the review screen. It re-wraps the video instead of re-encoding it, so it takes a second and loses nothing.
Webcam bubble
Drag it anywhere, resize it, or leave it off. Where you put it on screen is exactly where it lands in the recording.
Same library, everywhere
Recordings from the Mac app, the browser and the extension all land in the same place, with the same share links.
Installing
- Open the downloaded file and drag Clipnote into Applications.
- Open Clipnote. It'll ask for screen recording, microphone and camera — macOS requires all three to be granted by you.
- Sign in with your browser, and record.
Clipnote is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens normally — no right-click-to-open workaround. It updates itself from then on, so this is the only time you'll download it.
Prefer not to install anything? Record in your browser.