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Takes for Mac

Talking-head video studio with a voice-following teleprompter, recording, and AI-assisted editing.

By marvtub. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Takes at a glance

Version
2026.11.11
Released
12 November 2026
Download size
95 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Video and Screen Capture
Developer
marvtub
GitHub stars
38

About Takes

Takes for Mac (gettakes.app): a free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, camera and screen recording, and your agent (Claude Code, Codex or pi) writes the script, cuts the edit and drafts the posts through the takes MCP server. Apple silicon, macOS 15+. Shared as is.

How to install Takes on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Takes and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2026.11.11 from marvtub'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 Takes 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: Takes.dmg (95 MB).

What is new in Takes 2026.11.11

### Screen takes
![The eight cursor looks, each clicking a button](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marvtub/takes-public/main/docs/releases/v2026.11.11/screen-cursor.webp)
- Takes logs your pointer and clicks beside the screen file, and draws the pointer back in its real shape
- Ask for Screen zoom and the edit zooms in on each click and follows the pointer
- Zooms also come in when you type, and the view follows the text cursor
- Pick a cursor look: eight animated pointers with move, hover, text, drag and wait
- A click ring and a real click sound on each click, if you want them
- A keystrokes button on the record bar
- Screen and camera together: the camera steps aside in pauses, and the crop follows your face

### Effects
![Eight of the new effects: Banknote, Blade slice, Blow away, Code body, Clone row, Layer explode, Paper tear, Press front](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marvtub/takes-public/main/docs/releases/v2026.11.11/effects.png)
- 21 new effects, 35 in all, each in 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9
- Effects stay off until you ask for one

### Sound
![The Made tab: describe a song, then filter what you made by tag](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marvtub/takes-public/main/docs/releases/v2026.11.11/sound.png)
- Make a song with your own ElevenLabs key. It goes to a new Made tab
- Tag songs and sound effects, then filter by tag
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