{"id":9138,"date":"2026-03-31T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:51:25","slug":"fancy-short-screen-recording-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/fancy-short-screen-recording-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy Short Screen Recording Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a category of apps that help record short-form videos, mostly screencasts. For those of you who work on products that you need to showcase\/teach people how to use, video can be super effective. Here&#8217;s a list of the ones I&#8217;ve seen for reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tella.com\/auto-layouts\">Tella<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/screen.studio\/\">Screen Studio<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/screensage.pro\/\">ScreenSage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/focusee.imobie.com\/\">FocuSee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cursorful.com\/\">Cursorful<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.demora.video\/#features\">Demora<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tight.studio\/\">Tight Studio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying them out for <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/chriscoyier.net\/post\/3mi2lr66qpk2o\">videos like this<\/a>, but for that one, I went back to ScreenFlow, which is more full-featured, and I know better. I just like how you have full layout control with it, where the rest of these apps don&#8217;t allow that, probably as a trade-off to intentionally keep them simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a category of apps that help record short-form videos, mostly screencasts. For those of you who work on products that you need to showcase\/teach people how to use, video can be super effective. Here&#8217;s a list of the ones I&#8217;ve seen for reference: I&#8217;ve been trying them out for videos like this, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-6333682.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}