The Mac screen recorder with transcripts you can ask Claude about

Pick the whole screen, one window, one app, or drag a rectangle to record a region. A camera bubble can float on top of the recording.

Your microphone is recorded with a level meter, and Viddy warns you if no sound arrives. System audio is on by default, so when you record the Screen during a Zoom, Meet or Teams call, the other side ends up in the recording and the transcript.

Every shortcut works from any app. Pause, mute, mark, note and captions work while a recording runs. You can change them in Preferences under Video shortcuts.

Press Cmd+Shift+I when something matters and Viddy saves that second as a marked moment. It shows up as a dot on the video's timeline and in the Notes tab.

Press Control+N to open a small note box and type what you want to remember. The note is pinned to the second you pressed the key, the box never appears in the recording, and your typing never reaches the app you are recording.

Yes. Recordings from the Mac app are transcribed on your own Mac with whisper.cpp, so the audio is not sent anywhere to be transcribed. Transcripts are in English.

Each line has a timestamp, and clicking a line jumps the video to that second. The watch page has a search box for the transcript, and you can export it as a text file with timestamps or as SRT subtitles.

Choose when Viddy uploads: while you record, so the link is ready the moment you stop, after you stop, or never until you press Upload. Recordings you keep on your Mac still get a transcript.

Each video can be private, open to anyone with the link, or shared with your teams, with an optional password. Viewers can leave notes pinned to a second, and they can download the MP4 only if you allow it.

Connect Viddy to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or another MCP client from the MCP install page, using your own Claude or Cursor account. Viddy has no chat box of its own: your AI tool reads your transcripts, notes and tasks and answers there.

Ask things like "summarize my call with Acme from Tuesday" or "where did we talk about pricing?". Claude can also suggest cuts, and nothing changes in your video until you review them and press Apply.

macOS has a free recorder: press Shift-Command-5 to open the Screenshot toolbar, or use File > New Screen Recording in QuickTime Player. Apple's guide says recordings save to the desktop by default, and lists an Include System Audio option for macOS 27 or later (checked November 2026).

The built-in tool gives you a video file. Viddy gives you the recording plus a transcript, marked moments and notes, a share link, and a way for Claude to read it. For the free macOS steps in detail, see how to screen record on a Mac with audio.

There are two builds on the download page: one for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) and one for Intel Macs. The app is signed and notarized by Apple.

macOS asks for Screen Recording permission the first time, and Viddy needs a relaunch after you grant it. A Windows build is available in early access.