Record your screen and narrate it

A screen recording without a voice is a silent film of somebody clicking. OwnClip records your microphone as its own track and cleans it up on your Mac — no upload, no plugins.

Free to use. Recordings are capped at three minutes and export at 720p with a watermark.

The OwnClip video editor: a recording on the timeline with its filmstrip, the microphone and system audio waveforms on separate tracks below, and the tool panel open on the right — The editor the recording opens into — clips, both audio tracks, and the tools down the side

Most people record in a room, not a studio

Fan noise, a fridge, traffic, a room with hard walls. The microphone in front of you is usually fine; the room around it is the problem, and it is what makes an otherwise useful recording tiring to listen to.

OwnClip runs noise removal and voice-clarity EQ on your Mac, with presets that assume a normal room rather than a treated one.

Voice

Presets, not a rack of knobs.

Natural, Broadcast and Podcast are EQ curves for the outcomes people actually want. Noise removal separates steady background noise from speech on-device, with adjustable strength.

On-device
Three presets
Adjustable strength

OwnClip audio settings with separate Microphone and System Audio switches, a Podcast preset, and a seven-band EQ curve over a live spectrum — Both sources, switched independently, with the EQ over a live spectrum

Its own track

Cleaning it touches nothing else.

When you record system audio too, your voice stays on a separate track — so noise removal, EQ and per-moment muting apply to you and not to the app you are demonstrating.

Microphone and system audio as two separate waveform tracks, with part of the microphone track silenced while the system track keeps its waveform — Microphone and system audio arrive as two separate tracks, so either can be fixed on its own

A presenter with a lapel microphone talking to camera, lit by a ring light — Recording an update at your desk

A microphone and a room

Getting closer to the microphone improves a recording more than any processing does. Everything after that — the hum, the room, the level — is something the app can fix afterwards.

The voice tools

Noise removal

Steady background noise separated from speech on-device.

Voice presets

Natural, Broadcast and Podcast, rather than a stack of raw controls.

Its own track

Your voice stays separate from system audio, so cleaning it never touches the rest.

Silence a moment

Mute any stretch of the microphone — a cough, a name, an interruption.

Cut by reading

The transcript is editable, and removing a sentence there removes it from the video.

Silence removal

Long gaps between sentences found and cut in one pass.

On the timeline

Trim it by reading it.

The transcript sits beside the take. Delete a sentence there and the video loses it too, which is a faster way to cut a false start than scrubbing for it.

The OwnClip video editor with a recording on the timeline, a filmstrip of clips and the text and style controls open — The editor that opens on the recording you just made

Questions people ask

Yes. Noise removal, voice EQ, the audio mixer and transcription are all available on the free tier.

No. Noise removal, EQ and transcription all run locally on your machine.

Yes, and they are written as two separate lossless tracks that open pre-split in the editor, so either can be adjusted without affecting the other.

You can cut the mistake out — by trimming the timeline or by deleting the sentence in the transcript — and you can add further audio tracks to the mix.

Any microphone macOS recognises works, including the built-in one. Getting closer to the microphone improves a recording more than any processing does.

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