Launch & Feature Videos
A raw screen recording makes viewers squint at a tiny cursor across a 4K display. Ocelo captures a single window on a clean backdrop, clusters your clicks into deliberate camera holds, and renders real shutter-interval motion blur while the camera moves.
macOS 15 (Sequoia)+ · Apple silicon · 5.5 MB download · Every feature. Clean 720p exports up to 60 seconds.
Zooms are interpolated in logarithmic space along the step response of a critically damped spring. The camera accelerates early, lands on time without creeping, holds rock-steady while you read, and travels straight between nearby targets.
Switch between Screen + camera, Screen only, Split, Presenter + screen, and Presenter only during capture or in the editor. Smooth transitions animate the window and camera between layouts automatically.
Reframe the same project for Product Hunt, X, LinkedIn, or vertical Reels/Shorts (`16:9`, `9:16`, `4:5`, `1:1`, `4:3`). Bottom-center camera bubbles automatically lift above captions when vertical video needs the space.
How it compares
| What matters | Ocelo | Typical cloud / Electron recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom physics | Critically damped spring in log-zoom space with real motion blur | Linear crops or spring chases that never stop creeping |
| Resolution under zoom | Coordinate transform samples source video at full retina detail | Scales up an already-rendered frame, softening text |
| Pause behavior | Non-destructive pause creates editable red cut bands on one clock | Stops and restarts writers, causing webcam and screen drift |
| Social aspect ratios | Source, 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, 1:1, and 4:3 from the same timeline | Manual re-cropping in an external video editor |
Pricing
Both give you the same app with nothing held back. Tax is handled by Polar, our merchant of record, and shown before you pay.
Best value
$79once
Yours to keep. No renewal.
Buy it outright$24a year
Cancel whenever you like.
Subscribe yearlyEvery feature, on your real work, for as long as you like. Export clean 720p videos up to 60 seconds — record as long as you want and cut it down. Nothing else is held back: no feature is greyed out and there is nothing to sign up for.
Questions
Every auto-detected zoom lands as a blue segment on the timeline. Drag its body to move it in time, drag its edges to change the hold duration, drag directly on the preview canvas to re-aim the camera target, or press Delete to remove it.
Keep recording. Pressing Pause in Ocelo marks that span as a red cut band on the timeline without stopping the underlying capture clock, so your webcam and microphone never drift out of sync—and you can restore paused footage anytime by adjusting the cut.
More workflows
Record polished macOS product demos with automatic zoom, motion blur, presenter scenes, and on-device captions. $79 once to keep, or free 720p exports forever.
Headless CLI & Agent SkillDrive macOS window recordings from Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, or shell scripts. Ocelo ships a headless CLI (`--record --json`) that turns storyboards into zoomed, captioned MP4s.
Pull Requests & DocumentationCapture a single macOS window from your menu bar, redact API keys with content-tracking privacy blur, and export tight MP4s or GIFs ready to paste into GitHub PRs and READMEs.
3.8 MB · SwiftUI · Zero ElectronOcelo is a 5.5 MB native macOS screen recorder built with SwiftUI, ScreenCaptureKit, Core Image, and AVFoundation. No Electron, no background telemetry, and no Accessibility keystroke tap.