A screen recorder built the way Mac apps are supposed to be built.

Why this exists

Most screen recorders on Mac fall into one of two camps. The first is too simple: capture a region, get a raw .mov, no zoom, no editing, no polish. The second is too complex: OBS scenes and sources, video-editor timelines, encoder settings for a 3-minute walkthrough.

What was missing was the middle. A focused tool for the record-edit-share workflow, with the polish baked into the recording instead of bolted on in a separate editor.

That's ShipClip. Auto zoom-to-click. Multi-track audio you can fix after the fact. Camera background removal that works at your kitchen table. A Share button that hands you a link with watch-through analytics.

Built with native frameworks

ShipClip is Swift end to end. No Electron. No Chromium bundled inside. No virtual audio driver to fake system sound. The same pipeline Apple uses for FaceTime and SharePlay handles the capture; Metal renders the timeline preview; VideoToolbox handles the export. The whole app is under 10 MB.

• Swift
• ScreenCaptureKit
• AVFoundation
• Metal
• Apple Vision
• VideoToolbox

Who builds it

ShipClip is built by Ryan at Ligma Digital, an indie software studio in Arizona. Every feature ships because Ryan needed it for his own demos first.

Question, bug, feature idea, weirdest screenshot you've ever taken? Email ryan@shipclip.app. He reads every one.

Climate

A percentage of every ShipClip sale goes to carbon removal via Stripe Climate, funding direct air capture and frontier removal technologies.

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