Silk
Free until Saturday 15 August, 23:59

Record your screen.
Get back a finished video.

Hit record, talk, stop. Silk hands back a 4K file with the zooms already placed, a cursor people can follow on a phone, and your camera framed. Nothing to configure, no watermark, no account.

Free to download until Saturday night. On Sunday it becomes a paid licence.

Free until Saturday

No account, no card, no watermark. Download the DMG and it is yours.

Private

Recording, editing and export all happen on your Mac. It works with the network off.

Already edited

It opens on a cut that is already made. Watch it once, export, done.

Automatic zoom

People look where you want them to.

You clicked something. Silk already knows where to look and when, so the zooms are on the timeline before you open the editor. Switch to 9:16 and it recomposes at full resolution, without re-recording.

The cursor

Big enough to follow on a phone.

Most people watch your video at a quarter of the size you recorded it. Silk never captures the system pointer. It draws its own, three times larger, at export resolution, smoothed on a spring so hand tremor disappears. It turns into a hand over links and a caret over fields, exactly where yours did.

Your camera

Never re-record because it sat in the wrong corner.

Your face lives on its own track, so everything stays editable afterwards: eight positions, any shape and ratio, how tightly it crops you, and where it moves to halfway through. Hide it wherever it is in the way.

Set the look once, reuse it forever. Background, frame, cursor and camera save into one preset, so every next recording matches without touching anything.

Everything else it does.

  • Whole screen, one window, or an area. Other apps can be excluded from the capture entirely.
  • Microphone and system audio. Separate tracks. Mute either one afterwards.
  • Cut, split and trim. Non destructive, and every action can be undone.
  • Export presets. YouTube, TikTok, Reels, Shorts, X and LinkedIn, up to 4K at 60 fps.
  • Keystrokes on screen. Shortcuts only. What you type stays yours.
  • A clean desktop. Icons hidden while you record, back the moment you stop.
  • Music with nothing to clear. Generated by the app, so it is yours to publish.
  • Motion blur on fast moves. What separates a filmed pan from a computed one.

The deal

Take it. Then tell me what is wrong with it.

Silk is free this week because I need it in front of real people before I put a price on it. All I want back is what broke, what confused you, and what you expected it to do and it did not.

A reply under the launch post is enough, and it keeps everything in one thread. If it crashed, say what you were doing when it did, and which Mac you are on. That is worth more to me right now than money, and I mean that literally: it is the reason the app is free this week.

No obligation at all, but if Silk saved you an afternoon and you would rather say so with a coffee than a message, that is open too. Buy me a coffee

Everyone who sends feedback gets their handle here, if they want it

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Questions.

It is free. What is the catch?
It is free until Saturday 15 August at 23:59, and after that it becomes a paid licence. The catch is the deadline, not the app: there is no watermark, no trial limit and no account. Download it this week and the copy on your Mac is yours to keep.
What happens on Sunday?
The download link is replaced by a licence. The copy already on your Mac keeps working, and nothing about it changes.
Why give it away at all?
Because I have tested Silk on my own recordings and nobody else's. I would rather find out this week what breaks on your machine, your camera and your workflow than find out from someone who has just paid for it. That is the whole trade, and it is why I am asking for feedback rather than money.
Do I need to know how to edit video?
No, and that is the point. Silk opens on a cut that is already made: zooms placed, cursor smoothed, camera framed. Plenty of people record, watch it once and export. Everything stays adjustable, and every action can be undone.
Where do my recordings go?
Nowhere. Recording, editing and export all happen on your Mac. Silk has no account and no server, and it works with the network off. Nothing about an unreleased product ever leaves your machine.
Can I post the same recording to YouTube and TikTok?
Yes, and that is the intended workflow. Record once at full resolution, then export twice: the YouTube preset gives you 16:9 up to 4K, and the TikTok preset gives you 9:16 at 1080 by 1920 and offers to recrop the cut if it is still widescreen. Nothing is re-recorded and nothing is stretched.
Is there a Windows version?
No. Silk is written against the macOS frameworks that make this possible, in particular the ones that let it capture the screen without the system cursor. A port would be a different product, not a build flag.
Does it work on an Intel Mac?
Yes, on macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon exports faster, but the features are identical.

Free until Saturday night.

macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel. 32 MB.