About Klippit

Klippit is a native Mac screen recorder, built by one person, in the United Kingdom.

Why this exists

The Mac already has a built-in screenshot tool. It records the screen, it captures a region, it works. So why another one?

Because once you start sharing your screen for a living — explaining something to a colleague, filing a bug report, showing a customer how a feature works, demoing for marketing — the built-in tool runs out of road quickly. No way to export as GIF. No cursor highlights. No library to find a clip you made last week. No pause-and-resume. No trim before saving. It's a good tool that wasn't built for people who share their screen ten times a day.

Klippit is. It's the tool I wanted to exist, built the way a Mac app should be: native, small (under 6 MB), fast, local-first.

What "local-first" means here

Your recordings live on your Mac. There's no cloud account, no signup, no telemetry, no upload step before you can share a clip. The app contacts the internet only to check for updates and to validate your licence key on first activation. That's it. If you turn off your wifi, Klippit still works.

This isn't a marketing position — it's a design choice with real consequences. Klippit will never have a feature that requires uploading your recordings to my servers, because there aren't any servers for your recordings. If someone else's product fits your use case better, that's fine. Klippit is for people who'd rather their tools stay quietly on their own machine.

Who builds it

Alex Turner, a front-end engineer based in the UK. Klippit started as the screen recorder I wanted to use myself and grew into the kind of indie Mac app I'd want to buy.

A few things that follow from one person building it:

• Email support gets answered by the person who wrote the code, usually within a working day.
• Bug fixes ship within hours when needed, delivered through the in-app Sparkle updater. You won't have to wait for a quarterly release.
• Features happen when they make the product better. See /changelog for what's recently shipped.

Pricing philosophy

£29 one-time. No subscription, no auto-renew, no "you must upgrade by December 31st." When the next major version ships, existing customers get 50% off. That's it.

The 14-day free trial is genuinely free — every feature unlocked, no payment details required, no nag screens. If it's useful to you, buy it. If not, just stop using it.

Get in touch

Email [email protected] for anything friendly — feedback, feature ideas, "your icon's font is X right?" Email [email protected] if something's broken. Both land in the same inbox; the second one gets answered first.