Phia is a native macOS screen recorder designed for creating beautiful screen videos. It includes a lightweight timeline and applies intelligent zoom, smooth cursor motion, cinematic movement, and captions. New features like animated brand titles and flexible layouts with slides, text, images, and video help recordings feel polished and intentional, everything runs locally on your Mac and works offline.
Hello everyone,
I’m Zaid, the maker of Phia.
Phia started as a small Chrome extension because I personally struggled to make screen recordings look good without spending hours editing or paying for tools that were tied with expensive subscription paywalls. The community support on the first launch changed everything and helped me grow it into something real.
With that momentum, I finally built what I originally set out to create, a fully native macOS app. I chose to go native because I wanted real performance and freedom to build features properly, not compromises. Over the last 4 months, I’ve been working full-time on Phia for macOS, focusing on speed, polish, and that Apple-level experience.
Phia now includes features like: Brand titles, Animations, Slides & text layers, Custom asset layouts and more features designed specifically for screen-based presentations
One thing that mattered a lot to me was fair, affordable pricing. I wanted Phia to feel premium without being priced only for big teams or agencies.
This launch is just the beginning, there’s a lot more coming, and I’m excited to build it together with feedback from this community.
Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or questions.
Thanks so much for checking it out
