# Best video & capture apps for Mac

> Screenshots, screen recording, players and converters. 12 native apps, hand-picked by MacWorthy. Facts checked 2026-10-19.

Editor's picks: CleanShot X, IINA.

## Compared

| App | Price | Mac App Store | Homebrew | Open source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [CleanShot X](https://macworthy.com/apps/cleanshot-x/) | One-time purchase | No | `cleanshot` | No |
| [IINA](https://macworthy.com/apps/iina/) | Open source | No | `iina` | GPL-3.0 |
| [Shottr](https://macworthy.com/apps/shottr/) | Free + Pro | No | `shottr` | No |
| [Infuse](https://macworthy.com/apps/infuse/) | Free + Pro | Yes | No | No |
| [Gifski](https://macworthy.com/apps/gifski/) | Open source | Yes | No | MIT |
| [QuickRecorder](https://macworthy.com/apps/quickrecorder/) | Open source | No | No | AGPL-3.0 |
| [Downie](https://macworthy.com/apps/downie/) | One-time purchase | No | `downie` | No |
| [Permute 3](https://macworthy.com/apps/permute-3/) | One-time purchase | No | `permute` | No |
| [Movist Pro](https://macworthy.com/apps/movist-pro/) | One-time purchase | No | `movist-pro` | No |
| [Melt](https://macworthy.com/apps/melt/) | One-time purchase | Yes | No | No |
| [Palmier Pro](https://macworthy.com/apps/palmier-pro/) | Free + Pro | No | `palmier-pro` | No |
| [Magpie](https://macworthy.com/apps/magpie/) | Free + Pro | No | No | No |

## The apps

- **[CleanShot X](https://macworthy.com/apps/cleanshot-x.md)** (editor's pick): The screenshot tool that does everything. Capture areas, windows or scrolling pages, annotate, blur, record video or GIF, hide desktop icons and share to the cloud. Over fifty features, all fast.
- **[IINA](https://macworthy.com/apps/iina.md)** (editor's pick): The modern media player for macOS. Built on mpv, IINA plays nearly anything with Picture-in-Picture, online subtitles, thumbnails and a design that feels like Apple made it.
- **[Shottr](https://macworthy.com/apps/shottr.md)**: A tiny, very fast screenshot tool. Shottr captures, annotates, measures pixels, runs OCR and scrolls captures, and fits all of it into a few megabytes.
- **[Infuse](https://macworthy.com/apps/infuse.md)**: A beautiful home for your video library. Infuse streams from Plex, Jellyfin, NAS shares and cloud drives, fetches artwork automatically and plays every format.
- **[Gifski](https://macworthy.com/apps/gifski.md)**: High-quality GIFs from any video. Gifski converts videos into GIFs with thousands of colors per frame, using a smart encoder that keeps gradients smooth.
- **[QuickRecorder](https://macworthy.com/apps/quickrecorder.md)**: A lightweight, high-performance screen recorder. QuickRecorder records screens, windows, apps and iPhone mirrors with system audio, built on ScreenCaptureKit and free.
- **[Downie](https://macworthy.com/apps/downie.md)**: Download video from almost anywhere. Paste a link and Downie fetches the video from more than a thousand sites, with post-processing to any format.
- **[Permute 3](https://macworthy.com/apps/permute-3.md)**: Convert video, audio and images by drag and drop. Permute converts media with hardware acceleration, merges files and batch-processes folders behind a friendly face.
- **[Movist Pro](https://macworthy.com/apps/movist-pro.md)**: A powerful player for every format. Movist Pro plays HDR, Dolby and obscure codecs with fine control over subtitles, audio and playback.
- **[Melt](https://macworthy.com/apps/melt.md)**: Recent screenshots in the menu bar, old ones in the Trash. Melt lists your latest screenshots and screen recordings in a menu bar tray, ready to copy or drag into any app. Pin the ones worth keeping and it moves the rest to the Trash after the period you choose.
- **[Palmier Pro](https://macworthy.com/apps/palmier-pro.md)**: A video editor your coding agent can drive. Palmier Pro is a multi-track editor that exposes its timeline to Claude, Codex and Cursor over MCP, so an agent can cut, caption and assemble footage, and it exports NLE XML for other editors. Editing is free; paid plans add generation credits and cloud transcription.
- **[Magpie](https://macworthy.com/apps/magpie.md)**: Screenshots and recordings with arrows and steps. Magpie captures areas, windows and scrolling pages, then lets you add arrows, text and numbered steps or blur details before sharing. Pro adds screen recording, text recognition, automatic redaction of sensitive data and upload links.

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