CLIP MY SCREEN
FREE · OPEN SOURCE · MAC + WINDOWS

The good bit
already happened.
Save it anyway.

A bug finally reproduces. A game does something brilliant. A teammate explains it perfectly. Save the last 1, 5, or 15 minutes with a shortcut, then make it yours in a visual editor. Scrub, drag to trim, split, and arrange clips without changing your originals.

Clip My Screen visual editor with a video preview, thumbnail timeline, gold trim handles, and a two-clip sequence
The real visual editor with generated demo video. Drag the gold edges to keep your moment.
01 / LATEST RELEASE · MAC + WINDOWS

A small home for the moments worth keeping.

Early-release builds: Mac apps are ad-hoc signed and unnotarized; Windows apps are unsigned. Your OS may block or warn about downloads without a trusted publisher signature. No security-bypass launcher is included. Building the source is another option.

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Save what just happened.

A rolling replay buffer keeps up to 15 minutes nearby while capture is enabled. Save a replay, take a screenshot, or record a longer session.

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Make the cut visually.

Scrub a thumbnail timeline, drag trim handles, split at the playhead, and arrange a sequence. Frame stepping and undo help you get the cut right.

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Share when you choose.

Create a revocable link for a saved capture. Local sharing works on your network; internet sharing is an optional tunnel.

02 / YOUR FIRST CLIP

Open it.
Choose your screen.
Catch the next moment.

Capture starts when the app opens. First-run setup helps you choose a display, resolution, audio, and whether to start with your computer. Pause or quit from the menu bar or taskbar icon whenever you need.

  1. Install and open. Mac: drag the app from the DMG into Applications. Windows: run the installer, or use the portable EXE.
  2. Set up your display. Choose your display, recording quality, audio, and startup preference in the welcome screen. You can change these later in Settings. Mac needs Screen Recording permission in System Settings; see the first-run guide. Windows capture is currently video-only.
  3. Save a moment. Mac: ⌘ ⌥ 1. Windows: Ctrl Alt 1. That saves the last minute. Use 2 for five minutes or 3 for fifteen.
  4. Keep the good part. Open a clip in the visual editor, drag to trim or split it, and export a new clip. Give it a name or create a share link from your library.
VISUAL EDITING / KEEP THE GOOD PARTS

See the cut.
Shape the story.

Move through your footage with a thumbnail timeline and a live preview. Set in and out points by dragging, split at the playhead, duplicate a moment, and drag clips into the right order. Save edits to revisit later, or export a new video while your source recordings stay intact.

A second clip selected in the visual editor, with its source timeline and the arranged video sequence below
One workspace for previewing, trimming, arranging, and exporting. Illustrative demo media only.

The app checks for updates when it opens. Choose Update now to pause capture and download the verified installer; active recordings and clip exports finish first. Installation is manual.

03 / BUILT IN THE OPEN

Make it better with me.

Source code is MIT licensed. Bug reports, accessibility fixes, and careful real-device performance measurements are welcome. This is early software: live capture performance, audio sync, and the reported Finder privacy-indicator behavior still need broader validation.