Capture
Record displays, windows, selected areas, audio, and camera overlays with cursor, click, countdown, and auto-stop controls.
Primary features
Everything Luxel can do, in one Mac workflow.
The app now covers capture, replay, export, transcripts, automation, and localization inside one focused Mac app.
Record
Menu bar capture
Start display, window, area, and audio-only recordings from the menu bar. Luxel keeps target selection, audio toggles, cursor visibility, click highlights, permission status, recent files, and quick recording controls close without opening a full app window.
- Display, window, and selected-area targets
- System audio, microphone, camera preview, and audio-only capture
- 1–120 FPS or display-matched capture, plus countdown, auto-stop, pause, and resume
Recover
Replay buffer
Turn on the replay buffer when you need to capture what just happened. Luxel keeps recent screen activity ready and saves a replay clip without stopping the buffer.
- 30 second, 1 minute, 2 minute, and 5 minute buffers
- 24 or 30 FPS with optional system audio
- Clip to the editor or a configured quick export destination
Polish
Editor and export
Open recordings in the editor to trim, resize, retime, crop-to-fill, adjust audio, copy frames, save originals, and export video, animation, or audio files from the same workspace.
- MP4, HEVC MP4, ProRes 422, ProRes 4444, GIF, APNG, WebM, AV1, and audio-only exports
- Compact, Balanced, High, lossless, size estimates, level, and normalize controls
- Multi-format batches, Finder actions, copy path, copy file, and Share
Text
Local transcripts
Transcribe recordings on your Mac, search and jump through transcript text in the editor, and choose automatic turn grouping for easier review.
- Plain text or JSON transcript output from the CLI
- Locale selection and semantic turn segmentation
- Transcript caching, search, and editor transcript workflows
Automate
Command line and URL control
Install the bundled luxel command from Settings and control Luxel from shell scripts, launchers, URL automation, or Shortcuts.
$ luxel record --display 1
$ luxel clip --last 2m --json
$ luxel transcribe latest --wait
- record, stop, toggle, clip, latest, editor, convert, export, transcribe, preferences
- x-success and x-error callbacks with --wait, --json, and --print-url
- Recording frame-rate overrides plus trim, resize, speed, quality, crop, mute, and conversion
Control
Settings, shortcuts, and presets
Tune Luxel for repeated work with editable global shortcuts, quick export presets, reusable crop sizes, command-line installation, update controls, and replay buffer behavior.
- Searchable global shortcuts with conflict warnings
- Quick Recording presets with size, frame rate, destination, and post-action
- Recording, output, notch, replay buffer, command-line, and system settings
Global
Languages
Luxel is available in 11 languages, including the app interface and privacy permission prompts.
- Localized permission copy for camera, microphone, screen capture, and speech recognition
