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Zella is on its way to the Mac App Store.

Record. One click. Post. All AI runs on your Mac - nothing uploads, no subscription. Leave your email and we’ll tell you the moment it’s live.

On its way

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon + Intel · Local-only · No cloud

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Zella Pro ($89 once) and Zella Founder ($299 once) are in-app purchases, so they unlock inside the app rather than on this site. There is nothing to pay for here and no card is taken now. The email box above is the route to both: one message on the day the App Store listing goes live, with everything you need to buy in it. Nothing else gets sent.

Quick answer

Zella for Mac is a screen recorder and AI video editor that runs entirely on your own Mac. The requirements are macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple Silicon or Intel, and about 200 MB of free disk space. Zella is free to use with no watermark, no account and no cloud upload, and free exports run up to 2 minutes at 1080p. The Mac app is coming to the Mac App Store; Zella for iPhone is coming to the App Store.

  • macOS 14 Sonoma or later
  • Apple Silicon or Intel (universal binary)
  • ~200 MB free disk space
  • No account, no internet required to run
  • iPhone: iOS 18 or later, coming to the App Store
Version1.0
DistributionMac App Store
SandboxedApp Sandbox + Hardened Runtime

The whole studio, in your pocket - coming to the App Store.

The mobile app is built: record on-device, then run the same AI editor as the Mac - Auto-Polish, on-device captions, background removal, the AI Assistant and Auto B-Roll - all on the Neural Engine. Export MP4 / MOV / GIF, or hand a project to the Mac app as a .zella file to finish on a bigger screen. No cloud, no account. One Zella Pro is a Universal Purchase that unlocks Mac and iPhone.

On its way

See everything Zella for iPhone does →

iPhone · iOS 18+ · 100% on-device · Universal Purchase

PlatformmacOS 14.0+ (Sonoma) · iPhone on iOS 18+
ArchitectureNative Swift / SwiftUI - universal binary on Mac, native on iPhone
Recording APIScreenCaptureKit (SCStream) on Mac · ReplayKit on iPhone
Video EncoderH264 / HEVC hardware encode
CaptionsOn-device speech recognition on Mac · verbatim WhisperKit on iPhone
ReframeVision face-detection auto-track on Mac and iPhone
Export FormatsMP4, MOV, GIF, M4A - 1080p free, 4K with Pro (8K on Mac)
PrivacyLocal-only · no cloud · no account
DistributionMac App Store · App Store (iPhone app coming)
LicenseFree, with one-time Pro/Founder in-app purchases (Universal Purchase)