Timeline you already know
Split, delete, speed, blade tool, snapping and undo, with the shortcuts you use in CapCut.
Features
Record once. MotionShine does the polish.
Everything MotionShine does, from the first click you record to the file you share. Every feature is free. A licence only unlocks bigger exports.
The editor
A full editor, not just a few sliders.
Most screen recorders stop at trim and zoom. MotionShine gives you a real timeline: split and speed up clips, add music on its own lanes, drop in text and logos, blur private parts, change the camera layout mid video, and record a voice over on top. Everything stays editable, every time you open it.
Music and sound on lanes
Add any number of songs and sounds, trim them, loop them, set each one’s volume.
Text, pictures and logos
Five text styles with in and out animations. A logo with a clear background goes to the corner by itself.
Masks
Blur a password, pixelate an email, or highlight the one thing that matters.
Voice over
Count of three, speak, and it lands on its own track.
Built to feel easy
Clear labels, tooltips that show the shortcut, and plain words when something needs your attention.
Join recordings
Add another take or any video to the end and keep every edit.
Auto zoom and smooth cursor
It zooms where you click.
MotionShine watches your clicks and zooms in on them, framing the button you pressed. Your shaky mouse becomes a smooth glide. Change any zoom on the timeline, or let it do the work.
Auto zoom on clicksZooms that frame the control you clickedSmooth cursor and motion blurClick ripples and real click soundsHide the cursor when it stops
Custom cursors
A cursor made for motion design.
In most recorders the cursor is an afterthought. In MotionShine it is a design tool. Give it any colour, a gradient or a soft glow, pick a 3D cursor, or turn any picture into your cursor. Set its size, smoothness and click effect, and your style carries over to every new recording.
Any colour or gradient
One colour, two colours of your own, or hand picked gradients.
Glow
A soft light in the cursor’s own colour that makes it easy to follow.
3D cursors
Glass, Chrome, Gold, Obsidian and Holo, made for MotionShine.
Your own picture
Drop in any image. MotionShine cuts out the background, trims it and finds the tip. Move the tip yourself if you like.
Click effects that match
Circle and ripple clicks take the cursor’s colours, with real click sounds.
Motion
Smoothing, motion blur, and hide when still.
Remembered
Your last cursor style is where every new recording starts.
Glow, gradients and 3D cursors: no other screen recorder we checked has them.
Backgrounds
A background worth looking at.
Hand picked gradients, macOS wallpapers, a colour, or your own picture. Build your own gradient like in Figma, with as many colour stops as you like, and save it for every project. Add padding, round corners and a shadow in one click.
Camera and layouts
You, your screen, or both.
Record your webcam with your screen. Pick the bubble’s size, shape and corner, then switch layouts on the timeline: camera, screen, side by side, or screen with camera. Your face shows up exactly when it should.
Captions and clean audio
Captions in your language, made on your Mac.
MotionShine writes captions on your Mac, with no upload, in more than 40 languages. Eight caption styles, word by word entrances, and a .srt file next to your video. Remove “um” and long pauses in one click, and clean up your voice so it sounds like a studio mic.
On-device captions40+ languagesRemove filler words and pausesImprove microphone audioNoise reduction
Your library
Every video, with every edit, one click away.
All your recordings live in one library. Open a video from last month and every zoom, caption and cut is right where you left it. Rename, sort, search and find the space each one uses. Open several projects at once in tabs, like a browser.
Made for recording
Small things that make recording easy.
Speaker notes
A prompter that scrolls your script while you record, hidden from the video.
Show your shortcuts
The keys you press appear on screen as clean badges.
Pauses itself for privacy
Recording pauses when a password manager or a banking app comes to the front.
Pause, restart, discard
Fix a bad start without opening the editor.
Any window, any area
Whole screen, one window, or a box set to 1080p, 9:16 or 1:1.
Recovers from crashes
If something stops, what you recorded is saved.
Formats
Record once. Post everywhere.
Change the shape after you record: 16:9 for YouTube and docs, 1:1 for feed posts, 4:5 for Instagram, 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Export MP4 or GIF, keep editing while the export runs in the background, or copy a quick export straight to your clipboard.
Easy to use
Feels simple from the first click.
MotionShine is built to be easy, not just powerful. Every control sits where you expect it, every message is in plain words, and nothing you do is lost. You do not need to learn video editing to make a video that looks edited.
Set up in a minute
A setup guide walks you through each Mac permission with one button, and restarts the app for you when macOS needs it.
One clean window
Your media on the left, the video in the middle, the settings on the right, the timeline below. If you have used CapCut, you already know it.
Several projects at once
Open videos in tabs, like a browser, and switch between them.
Find anything with Command K
Type what you want to do and press Return.
Nothing is lost
Autosave, undo for every step, and a safe copy if something goes wrong.
Keep working while it exports
Exports run in the background, so you can start the next edit right away.
Your shortcuts, your way
Change any shortcut, or use the CapCut ones you already know.
Designed to look and feel at home on a Mac, with Apple’s own icons and a dark interface that keeps your video in focus.
Try it on your own Mac.
MotionShine is free for good, with every feature. Add a licence only if you want bigger exports.