Lumae
Lumae is a native macOS screen recording and screenshot editing app for creating polished software demos with zooms, captions, and narration.
What is Lumae?
Lumae is a macOS screen recording and screenshot editing app built for making polished software demos and product walkthroughs. It helps users capture a window, display, or selected area, then refine the result with click-following zooms, cursor smoothing, captions, annotations, and narration in one workflow. The app is aimed at people who create feature demos, release-note visuals, tutorials, and short explainer clips without bouncing between multiple tools. It also includes a screenshot side for marked-up still images, so video clips and supporting screenshots can be prepared together. Lumae is published by Mathieu Legault and focuses on local-first editing, with recordings and projects kept on the Mac rather than uploaded to a cloud service.
Key features
- Record a window, display, or selected screen area for product demos and tutorials
- Add automatic zooms that follow recorded clicks to emphasize on-screen actions
- Smooth and redraw the cursor path for cleaner-looking demo playback
- Create captions, voiceover narration, and annotated screenshots in the same app
- Edit screenshots with arrows, boxes, numbered steps, captions, and redaction-style mosaics
- Keep projects locally on your Mac without requiring an account or cloud sync
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Lumae is a legitimate screen recording and editing app for macOS. For its core features, it may request normal access such as Screen Recording and microphone permission, and those permissions are expected for capturing demos or narration. The app’s privacy information states that recordings, screenshots, and projects stay on your Mac, while anonymous usage and crash reporting can be turned off in settings. Use the permissions that match how you work, and avoid recording sensitive information that happens to be visible on screen.
Recommendation: Keep Lumae if you use it for product demos, tutorials, or annotated screenshots. If you no longer need it, removing the app may also leave behind local projects or media you exported, so save anything important first.
Common paths
/Applications/Lumae.app
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