OpenReel
OpenReel is a video creation and remote recording app for capturing, editing, and sharing professional-quality video content from guided workflows.
What is OpenReel?
OpenReel is a photo and video app focused on remote recording and streamlined video production workflows. It helps teams, creators, and business users capture guided video interviews, presentations, user-generated content, and other recorded content without requiring a traditional studio setup. The platform supports remote control features during recording, local high-quality capture, screen sharing, teleprompter use, and multi-participant sessions. It also includes editing and publishing tools such as text-based editing, captions, templates, media hosting, sharing, and embeds. On Mac, users are most likely to encounter OpenReel as part of a broader cloud-based video production workflow rather than as a standalone consumer video editor. Augustus Otu is listed with the bundle ID video.openreel.desktop, while OpenReel is also the name of a separate commercial video platform, so users should confirm the in-app developer name and signing details if they did not intentionally install it.
Key features
- Record guided video sessions for interviews, presentations, and user-generated content
- Use teleprompter and screen sharing during recording workflows
- Capture high-quality local video and separate media tracks
- Edit videos with captions, templates, and text-based tools
- Host, share, and embed finished videos through online workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Use with caution
OpenReel is associated with legitimate video production software, but the developer name Augustus Otu and the bundle ID video.openreel.desktop do not clearly match the better-known OpenReel business platform branding. That kind of naming mismatch is not proof of a problem, but it is a practical reason to verify the app’s code signature, download source, and in-app publisher details before granting camera, microphone, screen recording, or file access. Those permissions are normal for video recording software, but they should only be allowed for an installation you recognize.
Recommendation: Keep this app if you installed it for video recording or editing and its developer details match a source you trust. If you do not recognize the installation, check the app’s Get Info window, signature details, and where it was downloaded from before using it. Remove it if you did not intend to install a video capture or production tool, especially before approving camera, microphone, or screen recording access.
Common paths
/Applications/OpenReel.app~/Applications/OpenReel.app
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