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Screen Studio 4.0

Glass Loupe, Camera Cutout, Edit by Transcript, and more

Productivity
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The screen recorder for Mac that handles the hard parts: zooms, motion, sound, and framing. Every demo and tutorial comes out polished. What's new in 4.0: - Glass Loupe, a zoom that magnifies one detail - Split screen, also for vertical video - Edit your video like you edit text - Camera cutout: you, without your background - Hide sensitive data and faces automatically - Sharper zooms, ProRes, up to 4x faster exports, and more

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Hey Product Hunt,

Screen Studio 4.0 is here, and it's our biggest update yet.

Screen Studio records your Mac and turns it into a polished video. Zooms, a smooth cursor, and framing happen for you.

What's new:

• Glass Loupe. Magnify one detail under a glass lens, without moving the whole screen like a classic zoom does.

• Camera cutout. Appear in front of your screen without your background. No green screen.

• Edit by transcript. Delete a sentence from the transcript to cut it from your video. Filler words and long pauses are found for you.

• Split screen. You and your screen side by side, or stacked for vertical video. Every layout change animates on its own.

• Hide sensitive data and faces. Emails, phone numbers, card numbers, and keys are covered, and faces are blurred, even while you scroll.

• Sharper zooms. We trained our own model on macOS screenshots, so zoomed-in text stays sharp. Small custom cursors get upscaled too.

• Up to 4x faster exports. Plus ProRes for Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro.

• New audio engine. Scrub without clicks, keep your voice in sync with your camera, and make a quiet mic loud with the new Loud mode.

There's more: face tracking, color grading with LUTs, new caption styles, native macOS menus, J, K, and L playback shortcuts, and keyboard shortcuts that look like your Mac's keys.

And this isn't the end. We have more updates coming soon, and we can't wait to show you.

To celebrate, the Product Hunt community gets 20% off the first year of a yearly plan with code HELLOHUNTERS until 8 November.

What would you like to see in Screen Studio next? We read every comment.

Comment highlights

WE NEED MULTIPLE MASKS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! Auto Mask is cool but I want to be able to manually create as many masks as I want at any given time!!!!!

Everything is absolutely perfect for my needs... except one thing: I would love to be able to adjust the position of the subtitles. It currently overlaps the toolbar on LinkedIn and IG. Great product!

@pie6k Adam, I’m one of your early adopters and have always loved your tool, but in many cases I struggled on my MBA M3, especially with audio/video not being properly synchronized. I also waited ages to export recordings to video. But wow, man... Version 4 is next level! The app is super fast and responsive, and I couldn’t even sip my coffee during the export. Congratulations on the product and thank you! Thanks to you, our SaaS looks way more professional even with a small team and budget.

This is amazing! Loved using Screen Studio forever. The update seems like a great new version. Excited to test it out!

Couldn't be more excited! Love the split screen layout for 9:16 social video's. Thanks for the great work!

i'm very interested in the Hide sensitive data and faces automatically part. as someone who's working on a pre-launch product, we're very careful on showing product demos, i'm wondering does it catch text inside the app (like chat messages) as well, or only things like emails and faces?

@pie6k Can this be considered comparable to Guidde?

The Glass Loupe is the detail I'd reach for in app demos — a classic zoom moves the whole screen for one tiny control, which loses the context around it. When you add a loupe after recording, can you move and resize it freely on the timeline, or is its position set while you're capturing?

These are cool but I’m more interested in features we’ve been asking for, for a long time like being able to import new video and audio or do voiceover recordings. Are they coming?

The auto-blur for sensitive data is the feature I'm most curious about. Code walkthroughs often have strings that look like secrets but aren't (test fixtures, placeholder UUIDs, etc). Does it ever over-blur those, and is there a quick way to mark a region as "never blur" so it doesn't fight you mid-recording?

Excited to check out these new features! I enjoy Screen Studio a lot: the smart zoom features work perfectly, the editor is smooth, and the final result is always professional.

I have to say though: not being able to re-order clips is pretty frustrating. I have to export everything I make in Screen Studio and import into a different video editor, just to move one clip from the end of the recording to the beginning. It also adds pressure to the recording process since things have to be done in such a linear fashion.

That little fix alone would be a huge quality of life improvement!

I was an early Screen Studio customer back when you could purchase a license outright. I genuinely loved the product and was happy to support it.

But the decision to move away from one-time purchases toward a subscription-only model for new customers really turned me off.

I understand that software development costs money and recurring revenue helps sustain a business. But not every piece of software needs to become another monthly subscription.

I’ve since switched to Recordly, which is completely free and open source. It handles the core features I need, including automatic zooms, smooth cursor animations, and polished screen recordings, without another recurring bill.

Screen Studio 4 looks impressive, and I wish the team continued success. But as someone who supported the product early on, I much prefer the original philosophy of buying software and owning a license rather than renting access indefinitely.

I was an early fan and supporter of Screen Studio. But since they forced a subscription to use the product I am moving to new software and can no longer recommend. I'm sure there will be open source software on par with this soon enough.

I just get a little bit sad reading these updated versions launches because i got the lifetime license thinking i would get those new things too :-(

Congrats! I love Screen Studio and can't wait to use the new features in v4. As you continue to evolve, it'd be great to see more AI-powered automated editing.

Yay, another super happy user here!

It's fashionable these days to animate captions. But I live in a world where conversion counts, and animated captions in our product videos exclude appr. 14% of the audience. Can you build in an option to turn the animation off?

We wrote to each other, exactly a year ago about it 😊 Topic: Re: Screen Studio Feedback - accessibility of captions.

Edit by Transcript sounds like a real time saver for tutorials. Does the face and data blur catch things in the middle of a moving window too?

I’d love the ability to add a logo/water mark. I get so much value out of this product but it’s hard to make a perfect background with my logo so the ability to add a separate logo and position it would be super helpful.

About Screen Studio 4.0 on Product Hunt

“Glass Loupe, Camera Cutout, Edit by Transcript, and more”

Screen Studio 4.0 launched on Product Hunt on November 1st, 2026 and earned 422 upvotes and 94 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. The screen recorder for Mac that handles the hard parts: zooms, motion, sound, and framing. Every demo and tutorial comes out polished. What's new in 4.0: - Glass Loupe, a zoom that magnifies one detail - Split screen, also for vertical video - Edit your video like you edit text - Camera cutout: you, without your background - Hide sensitive data and faces automatically - Sharper zooms, ProRes, up to 4x faster exports, and more

Screen Studio 4.0 was featured in Productivity (664.6k followers), Marketing (470.3k followers) and Video (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 268.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.

Who hunted Screen Studio 4.0?

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Reviews

Screen Studio 4.0 has received 193 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 4.90/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.

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