Record, edit, and brand screen recordings Metal powered
Highlight Studio is a native macOS screen recorder with a full multi-track editor built in. No Electron pure Metal GPU rendering. Smart Zoom watches your clicks and generates zoom keyframes automatically. Add cursor effects, brand kits, device frames, AI subtitles, annotations, and speed ramps — all in one app. 40+ CLI commands let AI agents record and edit programmatically. Under 100 MB. Lifetime access is $55 during launch.
I built Highlight Studio because every screen recorder I tried was either too simple (no editing) or too complex (full NLE for a 2-minute demo). I wanted one app that records, edits, and exports something polished — without switching tools.
What it does:
- Smart Zoom — AI watches your clicks and generates zoom keyframes automatically. No manual keyframing. - Virtual backgrounds with custom images - Camera branding - Cursor effects — 3-level smoothing, post-recording resize, click sounds, and visual highlights. - Brand kit — Logo, colors, fonts, watermarks, and 6 animated intro/outro templates. Set once, apply everywhere. - Device frames — 27+ pixel-perfect Apple devices with real finish colors. Record your iPhone via USB and wrap it instantly. - AI transcription — Word-level subtitles in 50+ languages. - Multi-track editor — Trim, split, speed ramp, freeze frame, annotations, blur masks. Separate tracks for video, camera, audio, subtitles. - AI agent support — 40+ CLI commands over TCP. Works with Claude Code and any AI agent framework.
Everything runs on the GPU. Under 100 MB app size.
It's native Swift, renders on Metal, and the entire editing pipeline is GPU-accelerated. Smart zoom alone saves me 20+ minutes per video.
Lifetime access is $55 during launch (60% off). No subscription required.
Highlight Studio offers extensive Help Center with AI chat bot that will answer all of your question about product features and how-tos.
Video has been recorded, and edited only using Highlight Studio it self.
About Highlight Studio on Product Hunt
“ Record, edit, and brand screen recordings Metal powered”
Highlight Studio launched on Product Hunt on April 7th, 2026 and earned 98 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Highlight Studio is a native macOS screen recorder with a full multi-track editor built in. No Electron pure Metal GPU rendering. Smart Zoom watches your clicks and generates zoom keyframes automatically. Add cursor effects, brand kits, device frames, AI subtitles, annotations, and speed ramps — all in one app. 40+ CLI commands let AI agents record and edit programmatically. Under 100 MB. Lifetime access is $55 during launch.
On the analytics side, Highlight Studio competes within Design Tools, Social Media and Marketing — topics that collectively have 811k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Highlight Studio performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Highlight Studio?
Highlight Studio was hunted by Nedim. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Highlight Studio including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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I built Highlight Studio because every screen recorder I tried was either too simple (no editing) or too complex (full NLE for a 2-minute demo).
I wanted one app that records, edits, and exports something polished — without switching tools.
What it does:
- Smart Zoom — AI watches your clicks and generates zoom keyframes automatically. No manual keyframing.
- Virtual backgrounds with custom images
- Camera branding
- Cursor effects — 3-level smoothing, post-recording resize, click sounds, and visual highlights.
- Brand kit — Logo, colors, fonts, watermarks, and 6 animated intro/outro templates. Set once, apply everywhere.
- Device frames — 27+ pixel-perfect Apple devices with real finish colors. Record your iPhone via USB and wrap it instantly.
- AI transcription — Word-level subtitles in 50+ languages.
- Multi-track editor — Trim, split, speed ramp, freeze frame, annotations, blur masks. Separate tracks for video, camera, audio, subtitles.
- AI agent support — 40+ CLI commands over TCP. Works with Claude Code and any AI agent framework.
Everything runs on the GPU. Under 100 MB app size.
It's native Swift, renders on Metal, and the entire editing pipeline is GPU-accelerated. Smart zoom alone saves me 20+ minutes per video.
Lifetime access is $55 during launch (60% off). No subscription required.
Highlight Studio offers extensive Help Center with AI chat bot that will answer all of your question about product features and how-tos.
Video has been recorded, and edited only using Highlight Studio it self.