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Native macOS app

DreamCut for Mac.
Capture, edit and export
in one desktop flow.

The Mac app gives you the same DreamCut workflow in a native package: screen recording, a real multi-track timeline, captions, cleanup tools, and exports that are ready to ship.

Live release feed synced May 8, 2026.

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Changelog

Latest Mac Release

0.2.0 (775) • May 8, 2026 • 83.7 MB

Features

Capture

  • Start recordings and screenshots from the menu bar or the floating recording bar.
  • Record an entire display, a single window, or a selected area with quick mode switching.
  • Capture screenshots with timer, aspect ratio, quality, and image format controls.
  • Toggle camera, microphone, and system audio sources before a recording starts.

Recording Bar

  • See source states, audio levels, and recording controls at a glance.
  • Keep camera, mic, and audio source controls available without opening the full app window.
  • Surface in-app update notifications directly above the recording bar.

Zooms and Motion

  • Add simple zooms or multi-step zoom keyframes directly on screen clips.
  • Generate auto zoom timing from mouse-trace and cursor-track data for faster highlight edits.
  • Adjust tilt, turn, roll, and perspective presets for 3D-style perspective zooms.
  • Tune zoom anchors, timing, duration, playback rate, and transitions for each clip.

Editing

  • Edit recordings on a multi-track timeline with screen, camera, audio, overlay, and caption tracks.
  • Trim, split, arrange, and fine-tune clips with responsive playback plus undo and redo.
  • Style camera layouts, framing, cursor presentation, and scene composition for polished exports.
  • Import and refine mouse trace and cursor assets for clearer screen demos.

Edit with AI

  • Use DreamCut AI project chat for surgical edit operations across clips, captions, zooms, and project state.
  • Revise caption segments and timing with AI-assisted edit flows instead of rebuilding tracks by hand.
  • Generate publish metadata from the first frame, project context, and captions when preparing a post.

Captions and Audio

  • Generate timed auto captions from recorded speech directly inside the editor.
  • Clean and rebalance voice audio for clearer narration tracks.
  • Keep captions, overlays, and supporting media aligned across the timeline.
  • Style captions with fonts, active-word emphasis, stroke, shadow, spacing, and bottom-margin controls.

Annotations and Overlays

  • Add rectangle, blur, highlight, and HTML annotations directly on the canvas.
  • Control annotation timing, transitions, line width, color, text styling, and layout.
  • Use color, image, or video fills for overlay blocks to build callouts and guided demos.

Projects and Export

  • Save work as .cut projects, reopen recent sessions, and jump back into the last project from the menu bar.
  • Export polished videos in MP4 or MOV and still images in PNG, JPG, TIFF, or HEIC.
  • Tune export resolution, frame rate, visual quality, and sound quality for each deliverable.
  • Capture canvas stills for thumbnails, tutorials, articles, or social posts.

Publishing and Thumbnails

  • Generate hook-first YouTube titles, structured descriptions, tags, timestamps, cover text, and X copy.
  • Create polished 16:9 YouTube thumbnail covers with AI from your video context and cover hook.
  • Attach exports, generate a publish cover, and send the final video to YouTube from inside DreamCut.

App Experience

  • Follow guided permissions setup for screen recording, camera, and microphone access.
  • Access settings, subscription management, logs, and previous projects from the menu bar app.
  • Check for new releases, read changelogs, and publish updates through the Firebase-powered updater flow.