Lookit

A little Mac app that makes your screen recordings nice to look at.

What's it do? (great question)

• Records your screen — full display, a single window, or a region you drag. Mic, system audio, and webcam optional.
• Gives it some pop — gradient, solid, or image backgrounds with padding, rounded corners, and a drop shadow.
• Zooms in on the good bits — your clicks become smooth push-ins that start a beat before the click lands, and the frame drifts along with your cursor while it's held.
• Hands you the zoom controls — every move is a bar on the timeline under a filmstrip of your recording: slide it to retime, drag up or down for how far it pushes in, click empty track to add one of your own.
• Lets you change your mind about showing your face — webcam records as its own track, so you can reposition, resize, or hide it once you've seen the take.
• Calls out your clicks — clicks are captured during recording and render as ripples you can toggle per project.
• Packages it up nicely — non-destructive in and out points, then H.264 or HEVC at native, 1080p, or 720p.
• Makes a GIF of the good part — slide a window along the timeline, watch just that bit loop, then save it or copy it straight to your clipboard. Fully styled, same as the video.

Good to know

• Lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon. Global shortcut is ⌘⇧L by default, but you can change it to whatever in Settings.
• Nothing leaves your Mac — recordings are plain folders of .mov files and a JSON sidecar. No uploads, no account.
• Updates itself — signed and notarized, with a signed update channel built in (expect lots of updates as I make this better).