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
Amazing app, just bought the premium, when would the iphone recording be implemented?
Is there an automatic mode? For example, I need to create a video presentation for my startup to launch it on Product Hunt. This is a screen recording in the browser. I’ve never used such apps before. Looking at the screenshots now, I’m intimidated — I realize that for a 15-second video, I’d have to spend hours learning the tool.
It would be great if I could just specify the type of video, what exactly I need to record, and the effects I want, and the program would use AI or other algorithms to produce a ready-made video itself.
This idea really lowers the entry barrier. I think in apps like this, it’s key.
Congrats on the launch! As a developer building video automation tools, I know how tricky rendering high-quality clips can be. The auto-zoom feature looks very smooth. Is it using FFMPEG in the background or a custom engine?
I mainly use screen recording for product demo/tutorials — curious with where Phia has an edge compared to Screen Studoi? More automation-first or more manual control for editing?
I've purchased a license to be using Phia on Chrome, and now it turned into a macOS useless app since I don't work on overpriced junk. Thanks for this brilliant move, waste of money and I just feel scammed.
Wow, good job Zaid, really beautiful app! I'm wondering if it supports recording from cable connected iphones with iphone mockup? This is one feature that keeps me using another product for so long - because I mainly need to record mobile app demos.
Congrats on the launch! The combination of screen recording with built-in design elements like brand titles and layouts feels very intentional, not just record and export. How flexible the animation and layering system is, can everything be adjusted after recording, or is most of the structure defined upfront before you hit record?
When someone is deciding between Phia and the most common alternatives (cinematic auto-zoom editors, cloud-first recorders, and all-in-one capture tools), what’s the one switching trigger you see most often—and where do those other tools consistently fall short for your target user?
Beautiful UI and love the automation. I do wonder how well it performs for dense or fast-moving screen recordings. Curious to try it out.
interesting! we actually using clueso right now and it's kind of expensive
Looks super clean and thoughtful. Love the native macOS + offline focus!
Quick questions: how much control do you get over the auto-zoom and motion? And does it still hold up for longer, messier recordings (30–60 min)?
