Make Mac BetterHow to record your screen on a Mac
You don’t need to install anything to record the screen on a Mac. These are the built-in options, and what to use when you want your face in a corner, subtitles or a smaller file.
Step by step
Open the toolbar: ⇧⌘5
Press Shift-Command-5. Choose “Record Entire Screen” or “Record Selected Portion” and drag the frame over the area you want.
Choose your microphone
Open Options in the same toolbar and pick a microphone if you want to narrate. There you can also set a timer and where the recording is saved.
Record and stop
Click Record. To finish, click the stop button in the menu bar or press ⌘⌃Esc. The video is saved as a .mov file, on the desktop by default.
Or use QuickTime Player
Open QuickTime Player and choose File › New Screen Recording. The same toolbar appears; when you stop, the video opens in QuickTime so you can trim it with ⌘T.
How do I record myself and the screen at the same time?
macOS doesn’t combine them on its own. Make Mac Better records the screen with your camera in a circle and your voice, like Loom, and lets you move and resize the circle while you record.
How do I make a recording look professional?
In Make Mac Better you can remove long silences in one go, add subtitles generated on your Mac (English or Spanish), zoom in on every click and add a background, then export for YouTube, X, Reels or TikTok.
The recording is huge. How do I shrink it?
In QuickTime, File › Export As › 1080p or 720p makes it much smaller. You can also compress it in batches with the tools in Make Mac Better without uploading it anywhere.
Does anything get uploaded?
Neither macOS nor Make Mac Better uploads your recordings: everything is recorded, edited and exported on your Mac.