Toads — A better Mac screen recorder.

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The Mac app

Everything you need to make a screen recording.

Toads keeps capture, editing, captions, and export together in a native Mac workflow. Your recording stays on your Mac until you choose where to export it.

Record

Capture a display, window, or selected area from your Mac.

Edit

Trim, arrange, and caption the recording in one native editor.

Export

Create the finished video in the format your work calls for.

The approach

A Mac app that respects local work.

No app account or built-in cloud storage. You choose where every finished recording goes.

01 — native

Made for macOS

A native recording and editing experience designed for the Mac.

02 — local

No account required

Record, edit, and export locally without signing in.

03 — private

Files stay yours

Toads does not upload your recordings or project files.

What Toads handles

One native Mac workflow.

Start with the screen and finish with a video. Toads keeps the work together without requiring a cloud account.

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Capture

Edit

Captions

Export

Local

macOS

Local workflow

Your work stays yours.

Record, edit, caption, and export without creating an account or sending your project to a server.

Local by default

Mac app

The core recording workflow runs on your Mac.

  • Record without an account
  • Edit locally
  • Export from the Mac app

You control them

Your files

Toads keeps recordings and projects on your Mac.

  • No automatic uploads
  • Choose every export location
  • Share only when you decide

FAQ

Questions about Toads.

How the Mac app works, where recordings live, and what the cloud changes.

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