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Screen demos that look designed. Driven by hand, or by an agent over MCP Model Context Protocol An open standard that gives AI agents a common language for driving apps. Point any MCP client at playback-mcp and it can record, zoom, caption, and export — hands off. .

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Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon Open this page on your Mac to download.

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Zooms that follow the action

Playback reads your cursor track and drops smooth, cursor-following zooms on the moments that matter — a punchy close-up demo with no keyframing by hand.

How auto-zoom works

Cut the dead air, add your voice

Silence removal detects dead air in your narration and trims it into clean, one-undo cuts. Then record a voiceover over the finished edit — captioned on-device, nothing uploaded.

Explore the editor

Redact anything sensitive, on-device

Drag a rectangle over an API key, an email, or customer data and cover, blur, or pixelate it — redacted in preview, export, and agent frame grabs alike. On-device detection can find sensitive content and stage the masks for you. Nothing leaves your Mac.

See redaction masks

Let an agent drive the edit

Playback exposes an MCP server, so an AI agent can control a live session — list windows, start a recording, drop a zoom, caption a step, and export — all programmatically.

Read the MCP guide
Claude Code v2.1 · Sonnet 4.5 · ~/projects/acme-app
› Open the app, walk the onboarding flow, and record a polished demo — zoom the key moments, caption each step, then export to MP4.
⏺ I'll drive the onboarding flow and hand back a finished demo.
⏺ computer-use - screenshot (MCP)
⎿ Captured 1372×887
⏺ playback - startRecording (MCP)
⎿ Recording · rec_3a9b
⏺ computer-use - left_click (MCP)
⎿ Clicked “Get started”
⏺ computer-use - type (MCP)
⎿ Typed “[email protected]”
⏺ playback - addZoom (MCP)
⎿ Zoom at 00:06 · 1.8×
⏺ playback - export (MCP)
⎿ onboarding-demo.mp4 · 00:48
⏺ Done — onboarding-demo.mp4 is in ~/Downloads · 00:48, auto-zoomed and captioned.
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⏵⏵ auto-accept edits · ? for shortcuts
Prompt in, demo out

The same agent performs your demo, records it, and finishes the edit.

Pair Claude's computer use with Playback. Your agent opens the app, clicks through the flow, and types like a user — while Playback captures the screen, zooms the moment, captions each step, and exports a polished MP4. Nobody touches the mouse.

  • 01

    Perform

    Computer use drives the app directly — opening windows, clicking controls, and typing like a real user through your product.

  • 02

    Record

    Playback captures the session natively on macOS, in lockstep with the cursor, while the agent keeps working the flow.

  • 03

    Polish

    The agent trims dead time, zooms the moment, captions each step, and exports a finished MP4 — no watermark, nothing to clean up.

See how agent control works

Pricing

Free to record, edit, and preview everything. One purchase for clean HD exports and a year of updates.

Free

$0 no account needed

The full studio, with a 60-second cap and a small badge on exports.

  • Record, edit, and preview everything
  • Zooms, captions, backgrounds, and click effects
  • Agent control over MCP
  • Export up to 60 seconds at 1080p, with a “Made with Playback” badge
Download for macOS

No account. Record and edit without limits — the cap applies only to export.

Playback Pro

$49 one-time purchase

A perpetual license with a year of updates included.

  • Full-resolution export at any length, no badge
  • Pay once — builds you own keep working forever
  • A year of new releases included
  • Use on two Macs, manage seats in-app
  • Licenses verify locally, so it works offline
Buy Playback Pro

Keep updates coming for $29/yr after the first year — optional, never required.

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Beta Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon. Open this page on your Mac to download.