CAPTURE ANYTHING
Never re-shoot because something interrupted you.
Most lost footage is not lost to a mistake. It is lost to a phone call, a closed lid, a flat battery or a crash forty minutes into a good take. Zella writes recordings in crash-safe segments as they happen, deals with your background while you film rather than after, and keeps system audio and your voice separate so you can still fix the balance later.
Zella for Mac is coming to the Mac App Store, and Zella for iPhone is coming to the App Store. One Pro purchase covers both. See the mobile app →
WHAT CHANGES FOR YOU
- 01
The take survives your day
Segments are committed to disk continuously, so an interruption costs you the last few seconds at worst. You stop treating a long recording as something fragile that has to be babysat.
- 02
Your background is handled before you stop
Blur it, cut it out or replace it live while you film. You see the finished framing in the preview instead of discovering an hour later that the cutout failed on the take you cannot re-shoot.
- 03
System audio and your voice stay separate
Record what the machine is playing and what you are saying at once, then balance them independently in the edit. Pause and resume mid-take instead of starting over when you lose your thread.
ON BOTH PLATFORMS
What it does on each device.
On Mac
Capture the whole screen, a region you drag, one single window, or camera-only, with system audio and mic together. Cursor and click tracking runs underneath, which is what later lets the editor zoom on real clicks. A menu-bar recorder and the full keyboard set mean starting a take never interrupts what you were doing, and the Library keeps every recording in one place instead of a Downloads folder.
Get it at launch →On iPhone
Front or back camera with a live background you can blur, cut out or replace while you film, screen recording and whole-device broadcast via ReplayKit, and import from Photos or Files. Takes are segmented and crash-safe, so a phone call never costs you the recording.
Everything the mobile app does →
Same project either way. Hand it across as a .zella file and the clips, cuts,
captions, titles, callouts and effects come with it.
Mac and iPhone, side by side →
THE PROOF
The specifics behind the promise.
- Full screen / region / window / camera-only capture on Mac
- Camera, screen and whole-device broadcast capture on iPhone
- Webcam bubble overlay with blur, AI background removal (RVM), solid or live backgrounds
- System audio + mic, with pause / resume mid-take
- Crash recovery and sleep-safe long recordings
- Runs native on Apple Silicon + Intel Macs, and on the Neural Engine on iPhone
WHEN THIS MEETS A PAID CEILING
Almost never. Recording is unlimited and free on every device, permanently. The ceiling is on export, not capture, so a free take can run an hour.
Everything else is free forever: the complete editor, all the AI, unlimited recording, and watermark-free export up to 2 minutes at up to 1080p. 1080p is free permanently, and a free export is never stamped. Pro is $89 once and covers Mac and iPhone on a single purchase, and every new install runs the full Pro set for its first 7 days with no card and nothing to cancel. See pricing →
SEE IT DOING A REAL JOB
Who uses this, and for what.
Release notes nobody skips.
A 30-second clip of the feature working beats three paragraphs describing it. Record, blur the test data, caption it and ship it with the changelog.
Read the workflow → Support & Dev-RelClear how-to videos at support speed.
Blur sensitive keys, add keystroke callouts, and ship on-device captioned tutorials your users can actually follow.
Read the workflow → Real estateWalkthroughs shot on the phone in your hand.
Film the property, cut the dead corridors, add captions for muted autoplay, and post the tour the same afternoon you viewed it.
Read the workflow →READ THE MANUAL
Every control, documented.
Local. Private. One-time price.
macOS 14 Sonoma+ · iPhone on iOS 18+ · Local-only · No cloud