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BetterCapture for Mac

Free and open source screen recorder with professional encoding support.

By jsattler. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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BetterCapture at a glance

Version
2026.4
Released
13 September 2026
Download size
3.4 MB
Works on
Apple silicon
Licence
MIT
Category
Video and Screen Capture
Developer
jsattler
GitHub stars
1.7K

About BetterCapture

The macOS screen recorder for the rest of us - always free and open source with a native look and feel 📺

Screenshots

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How to install BetterCapture on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for BetterCapture and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2026.4 from jsattler's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to BetterCapture show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: BetterCapture-2026.4-arm64.dmg (3.4 MB).

What is new in BetterCapture 2026.4

## What's Changed
* fix: add entitlement for `com.apple.audioanalyticsd` by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/155
* Add bettercapture:// URL scheme for external automation by @qlaffont in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/170
* fix: reject recording when the selected display is disconnected by @krishna2206 in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/185
* chore: improve handling of start failures by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/187
* feat(automation): add toggle-copy URL scheme by @qlaffont in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/175
* 181 screen recording timecode not sequential by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/191
* fix(settings): persist auto update check toggle by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/194
* fix(capture): fix window crop on stacked displays by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/195
* fix(audio): fix missing system audio on window/application scoped rec… by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/197
* fix(camera): fix camera permission issues by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/200
* fix(shortcuts): register global shortcuts at launch by @jsattler in https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture/pull/201
…

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