Glideo is a free macOS screen recorder built for product demos and dev tools. It turns raw screen recordings into polished demo videos: the camera zooms toward your clicks automatically, with no keyframing. Same automatic zoom that follows your clicks and cursor. Same polished output. Same "this looks way better than a raw screen recording" result, without a price tag. No trial. No watermark. No catch.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Edward, and I built Glideo.
The problem I kept hitting: a good screen recording and a good demo video are two different things. The recording is easy, but turning it into something people actually want to watch means zooming in at the right moments, smoothing the cursor, and framing it nicely, and that part eats an hour in an editor every time.
While other editors expect a premium as a tool for this, Glideo does that part for you. For free. You hit record, and it watches where you click. When you finish, the camera already zooms toward your clicks, the cursor glides instead of twitching, and your recording sits on a styled canvas. No keyframing. If the auto motion gets something wrong, every zoom is a segment on a timeline you can drag, retime, or delete.
A few things I care about when building this out:
- It runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no uploads, nothing leaves your machine.
- Projects reopen. The raw capture and the click timeline live in an open .glideo folder, so you can restyle and re-export later without recording again.
- Exports come out at 16:9 or 9:16, up to 4K, with no watermark.
On pricing: Glideo is free for individuals, fully unlocked. It runs on donations through Ko-fi rather than a paywall. If a company wants to roll it out across a team, I handle that with a proper license and contract. That felt like the honest way to do it.
It's early access, so you will find rough edges. That's exactly why I'm here! If you make product demos, tutorials, or dev tool walkthroughs, I'd love you to try it on a real recording and tell me where the auto-zoom nails it and where it misses! Every reply gets read and every suggestion considered.
Thanks for taking a look!
This looks really useful for product demos. The automatic zoom based on clicks and cursor the part that attracts to me most—most raw screen recording are hard to follow without manual editing.
Curious how much control users have after recording. Can you fine-tune the zoom moments manually, or the editng fully automatic?
the "runs entirely on your Mac, nothing leaves your machine" plus donation model instead of a paywall is a genuinely rare combo, most free tools flip that within a year once VC money wants a return. one question on the open .glideo folder - is that format something you're committing to keep stable across versions, or could an app update change the structure and break projects someone recorded a year ago? that promise of "reopen and re-export later" is only as good as the format still being readable by whatever version of Glideo exists then
I like the local/open .glideo folder angle more than the auto-zoom itself. For devtool walkthroughs, the annoying part is re-cutting when the UI changes right before launch. Does the project store enough click/keystroke metadata to regenerate captions or callouts later, not just zoom segments?
looks cool! However, what exactly makes this different from products like remotion, descript, or even tella?
How do you measure whether AI-generated videos actually outperform traditionally edited content in terms of engagement?
love it!!! I used to use screen studio to record demo. How is this different! Also whenever I'm making product demo on my own laptop, i always need to hide sensitive information. Would be so nice if there could be a function to blur information but with motion!!
We produce a lot of product screen recordings and editing is 80% of the time cost. What does 'edits itself' catch in practice, dead time between clicks, or does it also handle captions?
The auto-zoom-on-clicks is exactly the hour I lose hand-keyframing every demo, so that is the part I would test first. When the auto motion misjudges a moment and I drag or retime that zoom segment, does my edit survive if I re-record just one section later, or does the timeline assume a single continuous take? And on export, can I pick resolution and format, or is it one fixed output?
Auto-zoom toward clicks is built around cursor events, so I'm curious how it behaves on an iPhone simulator recording where the "cursor" is a tap that doesn't exist between touches. That's my actual use case, App Store previews cut from simulator captures, and every tool I've tried treats it as a screen recording problem when it's really an attention problem. Local-only processing is the right call regardless.
This looks handy for product demos. One question: can the auto-zoom be turned off or overridden for specific segments, for moments where I'd rather keep the full screen steady? And can text captions or callouts be added, or is it purely camera motion? Thank you for keeping it free and local :)
The automatic zoom that follows the cursor is genuinely impressive, it makes my demos look so much more polished without any extra effort. Solid free option for Mac users.
How well does the auto-zoom hold up when you're switching between windows or apps quickly during a demo, and can you fine-tune the zoom intensity if it's too aggressive on smaller UI elements?
Took it for a spin on a quick walkthrough of a new feature and the auto-zoom on my clicks honestly looks better than what I've gotten from paid tools. Clean output, no watermark, and it didn't choke on a 10 minute recording.
How does the auto-zoom handle recordings where I jump between windows or apps quickly? Curious if it gets confused and starts zooming into the wrong spot.
The auto zoom that follows my clicks actually works really smoothly, way less tedious than keyframing everything in Final Cut. Already exported a polished demo for a teammate in under five minutes.
Free macOS screen recorder with click-tracking zoom sounds too good to be true, but the output actually looks clean and the no-watermark thing sealed the deal for me.
finally a free mac recorder that doesn't slap a watermark on everything, the click follow zoom actually works surprisingly smooth without me touching a thing.
The click-tracking zoom is genuinely clever, especially how it stays smooth without manual tweaking. Nice to see a macOS-native recorder that respects the platform instead of bolting on a clunky web wrapper.
About Glideo on Product Hunt
“Screen recordings that edit themselves”
Glideo launched on Product Hunt on July 7th, 2026 and earned 159 upvotes and 85 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Glideo is a free macOS screen recorder built for product demos and dev tools. It turns raw screen recordings into polished demo videos: the camera zooms toward your clicks automatically, with no keyframing. Same automatic zoom that follows your clicks and cursor. Same polished output. Same "this looks way better than a raw screen recording" result, without a price tag. No trial. No watermark. No catch.
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