A Screen Studio alternative for meetings and async video

No. Screen Studio is a recorder and editor for good-looking demo videos: it zooms in where you click, smooths the cursor and exports up to 4K at 60 fps.

Viddy is for the videos you record to get work done: a call with a client, a bug report, a walkthrough for a teammate. With uploads set to While recording, the link is ready when you stop, with a transcript, notes and, on paid plans, an AI task list.

If you publish polished demos and also record a lot of calls, you may want both.

Pick Screen Studio if the video itself has to look finished. Viddy has none of these features:

Viddy records your screen, your microphone and the sound your Mac plays, so the other people on a Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call are in the recording. No bot joins the meeting.

Choose Screen (not Window) as the source when you record a call, so the call's sound is in the recording.

Screen Studio can also record system audio, and its guide mentions meeting audio. The difference is what you get after the call. Either way, tell everyone you are recording and get consent where the law requires it.

Press Cmd+Shift+I to mark a moment, or Control+N to type what just happened. The time is taken when you press the key, and the note box is not captured in the video.

Screen Studio has recording flags too, which help you find spots while editing. In Viddy, marks and notes stay on the shared video as dots on the timeline, so viewers and your AI assistant can jump to them.

With the upload mode set to While recording, Viddy uploads as you record, so the link is ready when you stop. You choose who can watch: only you, anyone with the link, a team, or a link with a password.

Mac recordings are transcribed on your own Mac, and the transcript appears beside the video with a search box. Click a line to jump to that second.

On Pro, Lifetime and Team, an AI task list pulls out the tasks from the call, with an owner and priority, and each task links to the moment it came up. Viewers can leave notes pinned to a second, and you can export the transcript as text or SRT.

Yes, and nothing changes until you approve it. Ask your assistant to cut the small talk at the start of a call, and it proposes cuts with a reason for each on a live page where you can undo a cut or move its edges, then press Apply.

You choose to edit the video itself or make a separate copy. The original recording is kept, so Restore original brings it back.

You can also cut by hand, by selecting lines in the transcript or a range on the timeline, with no AI involved.

Viddy keeps the transcript, notes and task list next to each video, and Claude, Claude Code or Cursor can read them through MCP with your own account. There is no chat box inside Viddy.

A typical question: "which of last week's client calls mentioned the invoice delay, and at what minute?" The answer names the video and the second, so you can send a teammate straight to it.

The connection sees only your own recordings and has no way to record, delete or overwrite them. Revoke it in Settings under Connected apps whenever you like.

Download the Mac app (Apple Silicon or Intel, signed and notarized by Apple), sign in with Google, and record your next call or update on the free plan. Press Cmd+Shift+R to start, and stop with the same keys or the Stop button on the floating bar.

To ask Claude about it, connect from the MCP install page. If you also make polished demos, you can keep Screen Studio for those.