A Mac screen recorder without the cloud

Most modern screen recorders are cloud products: you record, it uploads to their servers, you get a link. Convenient — until you're recording something you don't want on someone else's infrastructure: a customer's data, an internal tool, a pre-release build, anything under NDA.

Why no-cloud matters

• Privacy. Sensitive screen content never leaves your Mac. Nothing to leak, subpoena, or have breached on a vendor's servers.
• No account. Nothing to sign up for, no SSO, no "create a workspace" before you can record.
• Works offline. On a plane, on a locked-down network, in an air-gapped environment — it still records.
• No upload wait. The recording is done when you stop, not when an upload finishes.
• Compliance. "Recordings are stored locally and never transmitted" is a much shorter conversation with security/legal than explaining a third-party video host.

Your options

QuickTime / the macOS Screenshot tool (⌘⇧5) are local — but bare-bones. No GIF, no cursor highlights, no trim-before-save, no library, no pause/resume.

Loom, and most "modern" recorders are cloud-first by design — the cloud is the product. No local-only mode.

Klippit is the middle most people actually want: the polish of a modern recorder, none of the cloud.

Klippit: local-first by design

• Recordings save to ~/Movies/Klippit on your disk — full stop
• No account, no signup, no telemetry
• The app only ever contacts the internet to check for updates and to validate your licence once — never to move your recordings
• Area / window / full-screen, video or GIF, system + mic audio, cursor highlights, trim, a real searchable library — the modern feature set, kept local
• Native Swift, under 6 MB, one-time £29 (no subscription)

Coming soon

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · See the privacy policy for exactly what does and doesn't leave your Mac.