Give design feedback by pointing at it

Design feedback is hard to write and easy to show. Put the mark on the frame — a still with one arrow in thirty seconds, or a recording where you talk through the whole flow.

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

A screen recording of the OwnClip site marked up with arrows, a box, a highlighter sweep and numbered step badges, each appearing and leaving at its own moment — Arrows, boxes, highlighter and numbered steps, each on its own stretch of the timeline

Three replies, or one mark

“The spacing on the second card feels off.” Nobody reading that knows whether it means tighter, looser, or wrong against the one beside it. An answer comes back, misses, and a third message goes out to explain the second.

Visual feedback settles it on the first message. A mark on the frame takes about as long as writing that opening sentence did.

Thirty seconds

The fast version is a still.

Drag a region and the capture opens in the editor with its markup toolbar already across the top. Point at the one thing you mean, blur anything that should not travel with it, and the thread is over.

Region or window
22 tools
Blur included

A captured table open in the OwnClip screenshot editor, its markup toolbar along the top, with the email addresses and phone numbers in it being blurred — The screenshot editor working on a capture — here, blurring the personal data out of it

Smart Redact

Blur the client’s records first.

Design reviews run against real data more often than anyone plans for. In the video editor a scan finds it and proposes it for review — nothing is applied on its own, and on a still you blur a region by hand.

A table of customer records with visible email addresses and phone numbers, scanned and then blurred in the OwnClip editor — Personal data found and blurred — proposed for review, never applied on its own

What ends up on the frame

Every tool here is on the free tier. The free limits sit on the output — recording length, export resolution, the watermark, and how many recordings you keep.

Region, window or screen

Drag a region — including one spanning two displays — or grab a single window as it is.

22 tools on a capture

Arrows, shapes, highlighter, pen, text, numbered steps, blur and crop, in the editor that opens on the shot.

Marks that come and go

On video, every arrow and box has its own time range, so a mark lasts exactly as long as the point does.

The flow, not the frame

Record the screen when the problem is a transition, a state, or the order things appear in.

Your voice over the walkthrough

The microphone records with the screen, so intent arrives beside the thing it is about.

A scan before it leaves

In the video editor, email addresses, phone numbers, card numbers and identifiers are found and offered for review, never applied automatically.

A link that stays yours

The recording uploads to your own Google Drive, and the link can be switched off when the round is over.

A link you can switch off.

The recording uploads to storage you already own and hands you a link to paste into the thread. When the round is done, the dialog that made the link disables it.

The OwnClip share dialog: a share link ready on view.ownclip.io, a Copy button, and a Disable link control in red — Sharing is the moment a recording leaves your Mac — and the link can be switched off again from here

A design review that lands

1Open the real buildAt the size someone actually uses it, rather than a cropped export of one screen.
2Talk while you move through itIntent is faster said than written, and the recording keeps it next to the screen it belongs to.
3Mark each point as you reach itAn arrow or a box in the editor, each one lasting only as long as you are talking about it.
4Scan, then sendCheck that nothing real is still in the picture, then share a link where the thread already lives.

Where this replaces a thread

Design review recordings

Walk the flow at full size and mark the spacing and the states as you reach them.

Client rounds

One recording per round, so the change list is watchable and dated instead of scattered across replies.

Handing a design to engineering

Point at the padding, the empty state and the hover, and let the recording sit beside the ticket.

Copy and content passes

Mark the line, say what is off about it, and the writer sees the screen around it at the same time.

Questions people ask

Either. A capture opens in the screenshot editor with 22 markup tools on it, which covers most single-point feedback in about thirty seconds. Record the screen instead when the problem is a flow, a transition or a state you have to arrive at.

No. There is no commenting layer and no design-tool integration. You share a link and the reply comes back wherever your team already talks.

Yes. Editing is non-destructive — marks live in a project beside the recording and nothing is burned into the picture until export, so a second round on the same take is a re-mark and a re-export.

Free includes the whole editor — timeline, camera effects, audio cleanup, captions, annotations, and the screenshot and PDF editors. What it caps is the take itself: three minutes, recorded at 720p, with a small watermark composited into the frames as they are written. You can keep 25 recordings. A few tools are paid rather than capped — Smart Zoom and Scroll Capture are Pro; Brand Studio, Go Live and Step Movie are Studio. Pro is $39 once and lifts every cap.

OwnClip needs macOS 26 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. It is a native Mac app — there is no Windows or web version.

Record the bug instead of describing itReproduce, point at it, narrate, send a link.Annotate screenshots on your Mac22 markup tools on a capture, straight after taking it.Annotate your screen recordingsArrows, boxes, highlights and numbered steps, time-ranged.Send the update instead of booking the meetingRecorded updates that replace a status meeting.