Record your screen, camera, or livestream, then edit, caption, and clean up audio with on-device AI. Go live to YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook, and export for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and YouTube — all from one local Swift app, nothing uploaded.
On-device intelligence
LumaTake uses Apple's on-device frameworks for transcription, noise removal, click-to-zoom, and filler-word cleanup. No audio uploaded, no API key, no cost-per-minute. Your recordings never leave your disk.
Apple SpeechAnalyzer gives LumaTake per-word timestamps for karaoke captions using the English model bundled with macOS. First-word leading-silence correction scans the first 30 ms window above -30 dBFS RMS and snaps word 0 to the real onset.
Filler-word detection builds source-time cut ranges for um, uh, like, and you know. Silence gaps over the threshold collapse to a 200 ms beat, merge with filler cuts, and mask splices with dual-track 50 ms crossfades.
Live AUSoundIsolation sits in the audio engine between mic EQ and the mixer. Export can run a second offline pass with a 0-100% wet/dry slider; macOS 15+ uses the higher-quality voice model.
A sandbox-safe global event monitor logs left-click timestamps and positions. LumaTake coalesces clicks within 500 ms, generates cubic ease-in-out keyframes, and lets you override factor, hold duration, or focal point before export.
The first three things to notice
Every left-click is captured during recording, stored in a sidecar, and turned into a draggable moment on a dedicated timeline track. Coalesced 500 ms click bursts, cubic keyframes, 1.2x-3x factor, and 0.5-2.5 s hold duration stay editable.
Draw Gaussian or pixellated regions before or during recording. The blur applies at frame time, and full-display blurs stay anchored to the Space where you drew them.
Clips are draggable, splittable, trimmable rectangles. Reorder with snap-to-edge ghost preview, Shift-click multi-select, ripple-delete, bulk speed changes, and cursor-anchored zoom.
Record. Edit. Go live. Ship.
Five capture modes, livestreaming, a piece-array timeline, and exports for every platform — every step stays on your Mac. Drag, swipe, or scroll the rail.
Go live
Stream the moment you stop recording — no second tool, no handoff. LumaTake encodes on-device and sends camera, screen, mic, and system audio in one feed over RTMP, then keeps a local copy you can edit and cut down afterward.
Stream to YouTube Live and hold on to the full-quality recording on your Mac for a recap, Shorts, or a tighter edit.
Bring your webcam, your screen, and game or app audio together without wiring up a separate broadcaster.
Paste a stream key once per destination. Your scene, mic, and privacy blur carry over to whichever platform you go live on.
The live encode also writes to ~/Movies/LumaTake/, so you can caption it, clean up the audio, and export clips for every platform right after.
Editor
LumaTake treats the recording as an editable project, not a file you trim once and throw over the wall.
Minimal, TikTok-Reels, Karaoke, Documentary, Editorial, Education, Tech, Creator, and Experimental styles. Per-word emphasis comes from Apple SpeechAnalyzer, and edits reflow into preview and export.
Transcript-aligned filler word removal can cut audio or strip captions independently. Silence trimming collapses long gaps to a 200 ms beat and merges overlapping cleanup ranges. Dual-track 50 ms crossfades hide cut splices, while recording-time Voice Isolation and export-time AUSoundIsolation stay local.
The always-on cursor ring is Catmull-Rom smoothed across 15 Hz samples, with click-bounce animation synced to the highlight. Eight quick-pick colors, size, stroke width, preview, and export all use the same controls.
Use Vivid, Dramatic, Process, Mono, Silvertone, and Noir presets; adjust exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth, sharpen, and vignette; or drop .cube LUTs into Application Support.
Caption styles
Local-first privacy
No upload, no telemetry, no LumaTake account. Recordings live in
~/Movies/LumaTake/; projects live in
~/Library/Application Support/LumaTake/Projects/.
Tokens, passwords, customer data, and NDA material never reach the encoded file.
Switch macOS Spaces and a full-display blur disappears for the Space where you did not draw it.
Click-to-zoom uses public macOS APIs only and does not require Accessibility permission.
LumaTake is local-first. Files stay on your disk until you decide where they go next.
Tech specs
The capture, edit, and export stack is built on macOS system frameworks, with hardware codecs, local files, and no server-side processing path.
Mac
~/Movies/LumaTake/, configurable in SettingsYYYY-MM-DD HH-mm-ss.mp4 plus -zoom.jsonComparison
| Feature | LumaTake | Loom | CleanShot X | Screen Studio | OBS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native macOS Swift app | Yes | No, Electron | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in editor | CapCut-grade | No | Trim only | Yes | No |
| Capture modes | 5 (display, window, region, social, webcam) | 3 | 4 | 3 | Configurable |
| Livestream to YouTube / Twitch / Facebook | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Click-to-zoom auto-captured | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Cursor smoothing + quick-pick colors | Catmull-Rom, 8 colors | Highlight only | Highlight only | Yes | No |
| Editable captions baked into export | Yes | Limited | No | Yes | No |
| Caption style library | 100 presets | Auto only | No | Limited | No |
| On-device transcription | Apple frameworks | Cloud | No | Partial | No |
| Filler-word removal AI | Yes | Cloud | No | Yes | No |
| Silence removal AI | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Per-piece retime, pitch preserved | 0.25×–8× | Playback only | No | Yes | No |
| Privacy blur | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| 100% local, no cloud upload | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI noise removal & cancellation | Yes | Cloud | No | Limited | Plugin |
| Separated mic + system audio tracks | Yes | Mixed only | Mixed only | Mixed only | Yes |
| Social aspect export presets | 5 formats | No | No | Limited | Manual |
| Custom 3D LUTs | .cube files | No | No | Limited | No |
FAQ
Yes. macOS 14.0+ on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Exclusively on the Mac App Store — coming soon. One subscription unlocks every feature, billed through your Apple Account. Restore Purchases with your Apple Account, and manage or cancel anytime in App Store settings.
No. Recordings, projects, and exports stay on your disk in
~/Movies/LumaTake/ and
~/Library/Application Support/LumaTake/. No telemetry,
no cloud account.
Yes. Add a destination's stream key and go live over RTMP or RTMPS with
your camera, screen, mic, and system audio in one feed. The live encode is
also saved to ~/Movies/LumaTake/, so you can edit and
repurpose it right after.
Yes. Continuity Camera is detected explicitly in the camera picker. Pick it just like any other webcam.
Yes. Caption text is editable in the inspector. Edits flow into the live preview and the exported MP4. Filler-strip and per-word karaoke timing keep working through edits.
Clicks are captured during recording, sandbox-safe and without Accessibility permissions. The editor reads the sidecar file and shows each click as a draggable moment on a dedicated timeline track. You can change zoom factor, hold duration, or drag the focal point on the preview.
Yes. Drag privacy blur regions before or during recording. The blur applies at frame time, so the original pixels never reach the file. Blurs are Space-aware on full-display recordings.
MP4 with HEVC video + AAC audio, plus GIF export for short shareable clips.
Yes for full-display recording; the region picker covers the main display only at this time.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store for macOS 14+. Record, go live, edit, and export — everything stays local until you decide where it goes next.