Openscreen
OpenScreen is a desktop screen recorder and video editor for creating polished demos, tutorials, and walkthrough videos on macOS.
What is Openscreen?
OpenScreen is a screen recording and video editing app for making product demos, tutorials, and narrated walkthroughs on macOS and other desktop platforms. It helps users capture their screen, webcam, and audio, then shape the result into a finished video without relying on a cloud workflow. The app focuses on demo-style recording, with editing tools built around transcripts, visual effects, cursor emphasis, and camera movement that make software walkthroughs easier to follow. It also supports local transcription and can work offline for core recording and editing tasks after setup. OpenScreen is maintained by Etienne Lescot and is suited to developers, educators, founders, support teams, and anyone who needs to explain software clearly through video.
Key features
- Record the screen with audio for demos, tutorials, and walkthroughs
- Edit videos by working from a transcript instead of only a timeline
- Add cursor emphasis, zooms, and camera movement to highlight on-screen actions
- Include webcam layouts and backgrounds in finished recordings
- Transcribe speech locally on the device for offline editing workflows
- Export polished demo videos after recording and post-production
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
OpenScreen is legitimate screen recording software, so it may request access such as Screen Recording, Microphone, or Camera permissions to capture what you want to record. Those requests are normal for this type of app, but they also mean the app can access sensitive on-screen information and spoken audio while recording. Use it only when you intend to capture your session, and avoid recording private messages, passwords, or confidential documents.
Recommendation: Keep OpenScreen if you use it for recording demos, lessons, or walkthroughs. If you no longer need it, you can remove the app like other third-party Mac apps, but doing so may also remove your access to its projects, settings, or related support files unless you keep backups.
Common paths
/Applications/OpenScreen.app
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