25 min
Editing by hand
Records cleanly from
and any other app on your Mac. No BlackHole, no routing, no aggregate devices.
One click records your DAW, your screen, your camera and your mic, then cuts the filler, captions it, and hands it back ready to post.
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Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer), macOS 14.2 or later.
Records cleanly from
and any other app on your Mac. No BlackHole, no routing, no aggregate devices.
The part that stops the scroll
Tapesmith films you on your webcam and drops your face right over your screen in a clean bubble, with your voice mixed over the audio and captions burned in. A talking-head and a screen recording in one, the format people actually stop for. Motion blur and cinematic zoom effects make your content polished and stand out.
More time for what you love
For a 90-second clip
Three a week at that length is 65 hours a year back.
Tapesmith edits for you, cuts out the dead air,
and hands back a ready-to-post video.
No card. No account. It just downloads.
Everything in one app
Save hours of editing time. Tapesmith does the editing-room work for you, automatically. Every polish step is a simple toggle, on when you want it, off when you don't.
Capture your whole screen, a region, or just one app window, with your webcam in a clean picture-in-picture bubble, and a live preview of exactly what's being recorded while you record.
Your voice mixed over your DAW or any app's sound, smartly ducked so you always cut through. No OBS, no BlackHole, ever.
Finds every um, uh, and ah. In a quiet moment it cuts them out; over music it erases them so the music never skips. You review every cut before it renders.
Clean, burned-in subtitles that appear a full line at a time, easy to read and always in sync. Generated on your Mac. Tap a word to fix it, then it re-renders.
Cinematic auto-zoom punches in on the action, cursor-follow framing glides to keep it centered, and real motion blur smooths every move, so your screen looks hand-edited and expensive without touching a timeline. It all reframes to a polished 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, live as you record.
Add up to four cameras, even a friend's phone over Wi-Fi with just a link, nothing to install, and cut between them live with a tap or a key. The switches are baked right in.
One click sets the right format and streams your composited screen, camera, and mixed audio, while saving a local recording of the whole stream. Keys are stored per platform.
Flip on dead-air removal and every pause is trimmed automatically, so clips stay punchy and ready to post. Optional toggle, on only when you want it.
Start, stop, and go again as many times as you want. Every take banks safely as its own file, redo scraps the last one, and Finish & Export polishes the whole batch in one pass. Work like you're in a session, not a screen recorder.
Quit mid-take, lose your mic, or run low on disk, Tapesmith finalizes and saves what you recorded instead of losing it, and warns you the moment something changes.
Pick how you appear: a floating bubble, a rounded square, or a true split screen with your own panel. Every look works in 9:16 and 16:9, and in split you drag the divider to set how much space you get.
The part nobody else solves
Auto-detects your audio and video sources so you don't have to guess the routing.
Recording your computer's sound and your voice together usually means OBS, audio-routing software, and a degree in signal flow. Tapesmith captures both, perfectly mixed, with your voice ducked smartly over the music, the moment you hit record. Zero setup.
No card. No account. It just downloads.
Made for your setup
Tapesmith is dialed in for music producers, so your DAW sessions look and sound perfect. But it captures any app or your whole screen just as cleanly, your browser, your code editor, your design tool, a game, anything on your Mac. No DAW required.
Ableton LiveFL StudioLogic ProStudio OneBitwigReaperPro ToolsNo card. No account. It just downloads.
Built like an instrument
Record, film, caption, and cut, crafted with the care of analog, delivered at the pace of now.
Finally, it really is this simple
Pick vertical or wide, then a 3-2-1 countdown takes you live so you know exactly when to start talking.
It mixes your audio, captions your words, cuts filler words and dead air, and reframes to vertical, automatically. You approve the cuts before it renders.
Out comes a finished MP4, sized and captioned for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, or long-form YouTube (choose between 9:16 and 16:9). Drag it straight to your phone.
No card. No account. It just downloads.
Good to know
Tapesmith captures your Mac's system audio (your DAW, browser, or any app) and your microphone together, already mixed with your voice smartly ducked over the music. No OBS, no BlackHole, no Loopback, no aggregate devices, no routing setup.
All of them. Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Studio One, Bitwig, and Reaper are tuned out of the box, and Tapesmith records any other app or your whole screen just as cleanly. No DAW required.
Yes. One click sets Tapesmith up for Twitch, YouTube, or TikTok Live (or any custom RTMP server), streams your composited screen, camera, and mixed audio, and saves a local recording of the stream at the same time.
Only when you talk while audio is playing, just like any recording setup. Headphones keep your mic from picking up your speakers, so your voice stays clean over the music. Tapesmith even reminds you in-app if you're on speakers.
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer, so 2020 and later) running macOS 14.2 Sonoma or newer. It doesn't run on older Intel Macs. Not sure? Click the Apple menu, About This Mac: if the Chip line says M1, M2, M3 or M4, you're good. That's the only requirement. You never install OBS or extra audio software, and there's no BlackHole, no routing, and no aggregate devices to set up.
Because Tapesmith isn't finished software that sits still. It's in active development: new features, fixes, and improvements ship regularly, and your subscription is what funds that work. While you're subscribed you always run the newest version with every feature included, and you can cancel anytime.
Two things. OBS records, but it can't hear your DAW without BlackHole or an aggregate device, and setting that up is its own evening. Tapesmith captures your mix in one click with nothing to route. And OBS doesn't edit: you still open a timeline afterward to cut the ums, trim the pauses, and add captions. Tapesmith does that part for you, so what you get back is already postable.
Recording new takes pauses until you subscribe. That's all. Everything you already recorded stays exactly where it is, in your Movies folder, and stays openable and playable forever. Nothing locks, nothing is deleted, nothing is held hostage.
No. The trial is the full app and your exports come out clean, the same as a subscriber's.
Simple, honest pricing
Your Tapesmith subscription never stands still: your plan funds ongoing development, and every new feature, fix, and update lands in your app while you're subscribed.
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Runs on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later. Not on Intel Macs.