Create professional-looking tutorials, app demonstrations, presentations and video podcasts on your Mac — without a complicated video editor.
Beaver CastRecording a screen tutorial sounds simple.
Start recording, explain what you’re doing, and stop when you’re finished.
But what happens when you make a mistake? When you want to remove a pause? Or when your camera covers something important on the screen?
With conventional recording tools, the camera is often permanently embedded in the video. Moving it afterward isn’t possible, and editing multiple recordings can quickly become complicated.
Beaver Cast takes a different approach.
Record Once. Decide Later.
Beaver Cast is a native macOS application that records your screen, camera, and microphone as synchronized tracks.
The important difference?
Your camera remains separate from the screen recording.
You don’t have to decide exactly where your face should appear before pressing Record.
Instead, you can change the camera position, size, shape, and visibility afterward.
That makes creating polished videos much easier.
Capture Exactly What You Need
Beaver Cast lets you choose between recording an individual application window and capturing an entire display.
Recording just one window is especially useful when demonstrating software. Your viewers see the application you’re explaining, without unrelated windows or desktop distractions.
The recording features include:
- Window capture — Record a selected application.
- Display capture — Record your entire screen.
- Camera capture — Add video from a connected camera.
- Microphone recording — Record your voice alongside the screen.
- System audio — Optionally capture application and system sounds.
- Quality settings — Choose your preferred recording quality. You can preview the selected source and monitor your microphone level before recording.
Your Camera, Your Layout
Imagine recording a 15-minute tutorial.
During the introduction, you want your camera prominently visible. During a detailed demonstration, you’d rather keep the screen clear.
With Beaver Cast, you can make those decisions while editing.
Choose between a circular or rounded-rectangle camera view, position it in any corner, and select a small, medium, or large size.
You can also adjust its border, margin, and shadow.
Better still, you can hide or show the camera for individual sections of the video.
Your original recording remains unchanged.
Editing Without a Complicated Timeline
Professional video editors are powerful, but cutting a simple tutorial shouldn’t require learning an entire editing suite.
Beaver Cast keeps the workflow focused.
You can trim the start and end, remove unwanted sections in the middle, and preview the finished composition.
The important part is that cuts apply to the screen, camera, and audio together.
Everything stays synchronized.
You can remove a mistake without manually realigning multiple tracks.
There’s also support for adding an optional PNG introduction to the finished video.
One Finished Video, Ready to Share
Once you’ve finished editing, Beaver Cast combines your recordings into a standard MP4 file.
You can use the result for:
- Software demonstrations and product walkthroughs.
- YouTube tutorials and educational videos.
- Online courses and presentations.
- Customer support instructions.
- Solo video podcasts and commentary. There’s no complicated export workflow. Make your cuts, adjust the camera, preview, and export.
Everything Happens Locally
Screen recordings can contain sensitive information, especially when you’re demonstrating software, working with customer data, or showing internal applications.
Beaver Cast processes your recordings locally on your Mac.
No account is required. There’s no cloud service, no subscription, and no analytics or data collection.
Your recordings remain under your control.
And at approximately 2.6 MB, Beaver Cast is a remarkably compact application.
Built for People Who Create, Not Just Edit
Beaver Cast is not intended to replace a complete professional video production suite.
It’s designed for something more specific: turning a screen recording, camera footage, and spoken explanation into a clean, finished video with minimal effort.
That’s particularly useful for independent developers, educators, content creators, and anyone who regularly explains things on a computer.
Record. Cut. Position. Export.
A complete workflow without unnecessary complexity.
Download Beaver Cast
Beaver Cast is available for macOS 15.6 or later on the Mac App Store.
Download Beaver Cast on the Mac App Store
Part of The Beaver Tools
Beaver Cast is part of The Beaver Tools, a collection of small, native macOS applications designed to solve everyday problems.
If you’re creating App Store content, you might also like App Capture Pro, which helps prepare application screenshots, preview videos, and promotional artwork.
Together, the two apps cover different parts of the content creation workflow, from quick App Store assets to full narrated demonstrations.
Discover more practical Mac utilities at beavertools.app.
Great tutorials start with clear explanations. The recording software should stay out of the way.
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