The take app icon: an LED panel, a 9:16 frame of white dots, one red dot recording.

Say take start.

A free Mac recorder with a teleprompter that follows your voice.

Download for Mac

macOS 14 or later Free

Made for recording alone.

A teleprompter that follows your voice.

Spoken words dim as you go. It waits while you improvise and finds you again, a few sentences further on or two paragraphs back. Or let Claude write the script straight onto it.

take startCount in, record
take againDiscard, record again
take endStop, keep
take backStart of this paragraph
take resetTeleprompter from the top

No walking back to the keyboard.

Spoken commands, also one click away. In your script they are lines, not orders. A spoken take end is trimmed off the take. A discarded take is moved, never deleted.

No crop in post.

The largest 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 crop of what the camera sends, written straight to HEVC.

Aim for the lighter blocks.

They mark −18 to −6 dB. Red means too loud.

Records
HEVC .mov, from the camera's own resolution
Format
9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9
Cameras
Capture card over HDMI, built-in or Studio Display camera, iPhone
Sound
Capture card or any microphone
Speech
English or German, on-device
Frame rate
30, 50 or 60 fps
Rotation
0°, 90°, 180°, 270°
Saves to
Any folder or external drive
Files
2026-09-26_take-01.mov
Keys
Space record, P prompter, E script
System
macOS 14 or later
Chip
Apple silicon or Intel

Nothing leaves your Mac.

  • Speech recognition runs on your Mac.requiresOnDeviceRecognition
  • No account.
  • No analytics.
  • No network requests, unless you turn on update checks.off by default

This page has no analytics either.

First launch.

Signed and notarized by Apple. It opens like any other app.

  1. Open take.dmg and drag take to Applications.
  2. Open take.
  3. Allow camera, microphone and speech recognition.

take listens in English or German. If it says Voice is off, add the language under Keyboard › Dictation in System Settings.