Kap is a fantastic macOS app for creating screen recordings on your Mac: it’s free to use (open-sourced) & comes with a lot of features not available in QuickTime’s screen recording mode.
You can install it using Homebrew: $ brew update && brew cask install kap
…or simply download the App here: https://getkap.co
What Features differentiate Kap from QuickTime?
Kap in version 2.0 already offers a lot of useful features, exceeding QuickTime as of my experiences:
- It’s made as standalone screen recording app – based on modern web technologies
- You can start new screen recordings instantly by pressing
CMD+Shift+5(remember this key command from taking screenshots?) - You can specify an exact size of the recording (but still drag’n’drop & resize the recording area later)
- It offers a built-in “Hide desktop icons”-setting – I like this one a lot!
- It also offers a “Do Not Disturb”-mode – disabling any notifications during a recording
- You can show the mouse cursor but disable visible clicks from recordings (QuickTime can only do both or none)
- You can record in 60 FPS
- Export formats by default include: GIF, WebM, MP4 & APNG
- It’s pluggable with various third-party plugins, allowing quick sharing to many online services – such as giphy.com etc.
- It offers much more post-editing options, like changing the size, FPS and output format for the final recording-file
Check out the official website for Kap or it’s GitHub project page for reporting bugs, feature requests or just checking the development progress.
Here’s a 60fps GIF demo recording made using Kap
