Focal — Beautiful screen recordings with automatic zoom

Features

Everything a screencast needs, automatically.

Focal handles the parts that usually take an editor — you just record.

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Automatic zoom on click

Focal tracks your clicks while recording and generates smooth zoom-in moments around them — no manual keyframing. Every block is still fully editable afterward.

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Real cursor handling

The system cursor is excluded at the recording level, not just blurred over, then redrawn as a crisp vector cursor from tracked mouse data — sharp at any zoom.

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Custom area recording

Don't record your whole screen — drag out exactly the region you want before you start, down to the pixel.

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Webcam & microphone

Add a webcam bubble and narrate over your recording. Voice enhancement cleans up the audio automatically on export.

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Sensitive-info masking

Pixelate passwords, emails, or anything else you don't want visible — masks track your zooms automatically.

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Full built-in editor

Trim, cut sections, add text slides and annotations, drop in B-roll, then style the frame — background, padding, corner radius, shadow.

How it works

Record. It edits itself. Share.

Three steps, no timeline scrubbing required to get something worth sending.

Pick a screen, window, or custom area

Choose exactly what to record — an entire display, a single window, or a cropped region you drag out yourself.

Record like normal

Focal minimizes out of the way. Talk, click, work — every click is quietly logged to drive the zoom later.

Open the editor — it's already mostly done

Zoom moments are generated automatically. Trim, add a few annotations if you want, then export or copy a shareable link.

Focal's editor, showing the timeline with automatically-generated zoom blocks and the styling sidebar

Coming soon

What's next.

Still actively building. Here's what's on deck.

Soon

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Cursor packs

Pick from a set of vector cursor styles instead of the one default arrow — swap the look without touching your footage.

Soon

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Auto captions

Automatic transcription with editable, styled captions burned in or exported as a separate file.

Soon

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Silence & filler-word removal

Automatically trim dead air and "um"s from your narration — reviewable before it's applied, not a black box.

Later

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Windows native capture parity

The same OS-level cursor hiding and custom-area recording Mac gets today, brought to Windows.

Later

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Cloud sync

Start a recording on one machine, keep editing on another — projects follow you.

Later

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One-click templates

Presets for common formats — bug report, quick tutorial, changelog — that set up styling and pacing for you.

Download

Get Focal, free.

Pick your platform below.

Focal for Mac

macOS 13 Ventura · Apple Silicon

Download .dmg

Focal for Windows

Windows 10 or later · 64-bit

Download .exe

Focal isn't code-signed by an registered developer yet, so both operating systems will warn you on first launch. On Mac: right-click the app → Open. On Windows: click "More info" → "Run anyway" in the SmartScreen prompt.