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Your screen.
Perfectly recorded.

knooth is a macOS screen recording app with built-in editing, AI captions, audio cleanup, and animations. Create tutorials and explainer videos, or record your iPhone and iPad screen - all in one place.

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1 week free for new subscribers.

knooth App Interface

More than recording.
It's a full canvas.

Record your screen, then refine it. With built-in editing, timelines, animations, and media layering, knooth lets you create professional videos without leaving the app.

Precision controls, when you need them

Fine-tune layout, position, typography, color, audio, and export settings — all from a single, focused panel.

Precision controls interface

Capture with clarity

Capture exactly what you need, from full screens to fine details — even just yourself — with audio and visual precision from the start.

Capture with clarity interface

Layer meaning onto your recordings

Add text, images, audio, and vector shapes to your videos. Annotate key moments and guide attention exactly where it matters.

Layer meaning interface

Designed to guide attention

Customize your cursor after recording — adjust size, add click sounds, and guide attention exactly where it matters.

Designed to guide interface

Shape the story over time

Trim clips, split layers, and animate elements to highlight key moments and keep attention exactly where you want it.

Auto Zoom Cursor

Turn it on to automatically zoom into cursor actions, then fine-tune the generated keyframes anytime. You're always in control.

Ready for every screen

Export your video in multiple aspect ratios, from widescreen to vertical and square.

Video aspect ratio selector

Privacy by design

Your recordings never leave your device unless you choose to move them. knooth stores everything locally, giving you complete ownership and control.

Privacy by design

Refine your voice

Remove filler words or selected phrases using intelligence built into knooth — keeping your video natural, polished, and private.

Captions made simple

Create captions with built-in intelligence, processed locally without relying on external services.

Fine-tune animations

Adjust easing curves with a full-featured graph editor. Get precise control over timing, speed, and motion.

Graph editor interface

Background masking

Remove or blur your background after recording. Clean up distractions in a single click.

Background masking interface

Studio-ready audio

Reduce background noise for a cleaner, clearer sound. Fine-tune frequencies using the built-in equaliser.

Studio-ready audio interface

Simple pricing,
no surprises.

One license. All your devices.

No feature gating. No data collection. Files stay on your device.
1 week free for new subscribers.

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Free

1 week free trial

Full access for 7 days.

  • All recording modes
  • Full editing tools
  • Auto Zoom Cursor, AI features, etc
  • Local-only & privacy-first
  • Use on all Macs (same Apple ID)
Monthly

Explorer

$9.99/month

Pay as you go. Cancel anytime.

Explore at your own pace.

  • Everything in Free Trial
  • Monthly billing
  • Ongoing updates
  • Use on all Macs (same Apple ID)
Yearly

Professional

$59.99/year
$4.99/month • 50% savings

Built for everyday work.

  • Everything in Monthly
  • Best value
  • One year of updates
  • Use on all Macs (same Apple ID)

Common questions

Pricing & Plans
knooth offers a 1 week free trial for new subscribers. After the trial, you can continue with a monthly ($9.99/month) or yearly ($59.99/year) subscription.
knooth offers monthly ($9.99/month) and yearly ($59.99/year) subscription plans. Both plans include full access to all features.
Yes. You can switch between monthly and yearly subscriptions at any time through your Apple ID subscription settings.
Yes. All plans include ongoing updates, improvements, and new features.
Licensing & Devices
Yes. One license allows you to install knooth on any Mac using the same Apple ID you purchased with, in accordance with Apple’s App Store licensing rules.
Yes. knooth is currently designed for individual use and personal or professional workflows.
Privacy & Data
No. knooth does not upload, store, or process your recordings or assets on any external servers. All files are created and saved locally on your device.
You do. All recordings, edits, and exported videos are fully owned by you. knooth does not claim ownership over any content you create.
knooth collects limited, anonymized usage analytics using a privacy-first analytics provider. This data helps us understand how the app is used and improve performance and features. No personal data, identifiers, or content is ever collected.
AI in knooth
Yes. knooth includes optional AI-powered features to help with tasks like generating captions and cleaning up speech disfluencies (such as filler words). AI-generated output may not always be accurate, complete, or error-free
No.

All AI processing in knooth happens entirely on your device.
Your audio, video, and text never leave your device during AI operations.
No.

knooth does not use:
• Cloud-based AI services
• External APIs
• Third-party inference servers

Everything runs locally inside the app.
knooth's AI features support 25+ languages, including:

Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Ukrainian
No.

• AI-generated captions and edits are stored locally in your project files
• knooth does not collect, store, or transmit AI inputs or outputs
• We do not use your content to train any models
Yes.

Since all AI processing is on-device, AI features work without an internet connection, subject to your device’s performance capabilities.
knooth’s AI runs locally on your Mac, so performance depends on your hardware. Performance may vary on older or lower-spec devices.
No.

knooth’s AI runs entirely on your device.
Your content stays on your Mac and is never uploaded or processed in the cloud.

Anonymous usage and diagnostics data may be collected to improve the app, but no personal data or content is ever collected.
No.

AI in knooth is used solely as a creative and productivity tool.
It does not profile users or make automated decisions about you.
This app uses NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B for on-device speech recognition. The model has been converted to Core ML format for use on Apple devices. Parakeet-TDT is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). Copyright NVIDIA Corporation.
App Store & Payments
All payments, subscriptions, renewals, and cancellations are handled through Apple’s App Store. knooth does not process payments directly.
Yes. Subscriptions can be managed or canceled at any time through your Apple ID subscription settings.
No internet connection is required to record, edit, or export videos. An internet connection may be needed for downloading updates or managing subscriptions through the App Store.
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Turn screen recordings
into clear stories

knooth helps you capture, refine, and export professional videos — without switching tools or workflows.

Try knooth

1 week free for new subscribers.