How do you record your screen on a Mac with Kirocast?
Kirocast runs in the menu bar. Press ⌘⇧5 and the recording bar appears over your work. It carries the three sources, a microphone picker, a camera picker and Record. Choose Window and Kirocast lists the windows you have open by app; choose Area and you drag the region you want. Each source also has a shortcut of its own: ⌥⌘3 starts recording your main display right away, ⌥⌘4 opens the bar on the window list, and ⌥⌘5 starts recording the area you drag the moment you let go. Narration is transcribed on your Mac when you want captions or an export for AI, and a camera is captured as its own track. Press stop and the take lands in a small card over your work. Kirocast runs on macOS 15 or later.
Three ways to frame the shot
The bar opens on the source picker. Each source also has a shortcut of its own, for when you already know what you want: two of them start recording straight away, and one opens the window list.
Display ⌥⌘3
The whole screen. The bar names the display it is set to - “Built-in Retina Display” - so you can read which screen you are about to record. ⌥⌘3 starts recording your main display right away.
Window ⌥⌘4
Kirocast lists the windows you have open, grouped by app and labelled with the document each one holds, so you pick the right Figma file or terminal by name. ⌥⌘4 opens the bar with this list showing; pick a window, then press Record.
Area ⌥⌘5
Drag the region you want, and the recording starts the moment you let go. Useful when the thing worth showing is one panel of a wide screen.
Your voice and your face, when they help
Two pickers sit beside the sources. Add either one when the recording calls for it; a screen on its own is already a complete take.
Microphone
Pick the mic you are already wearing and talk through what you are doing. Kirocast transcribes it on your Mac when you generate captions or export for AI, so the words end up on the timeline as well as in the audio - that is the transcript that lands beside the video for your agent to read.
Camera
Your built-in camera, a Desk View, or anything else plugged in. Kirocast captures it as its own track and composites it over the screen recording, so you can size the bubble, move it, or take it out later in the editor and the screen recording underneath is untouched.
Then press Record
Kirocast starts capturing, and you can pause and resume as you go. Press stop and the take lands in a small card over your work: play it back, bin it, export it, or open the editor. Automatic zoom has already followed your clicks by the time you look at it.
Questions people ask
Do I have to open the app first?
Kirocast is already running in the menu bar. ⌘⇧5 brings the bar up over whatever is on screen, so the thing you want to record stays where it is.
Can I pause in the middle of a take?
Yes. Pause and resume from the bar while the recording is running.
What happens when I stop?
The take lands in a small card over your work. Play it back, bin it, export it, or open the editor. Export for AI writes the video with its events file, plus a transcript when you narrated, for an agent to read; the regular export writes the polished version for a person.
Which Mac does it need?
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 Sequoia or later.