Dolly, in facts.

Dolly

What it is

A screen recorder for Mac that does the camera work for you: automatic zoom on clicks and typing, a smooth redrawn cursor, backgrounds, captions and a fast editor.

Made by

The Dolly team, Ghent, Belgium.

Runs on

Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 13 Ventura or later. Windows is in the works; there's no Intel build yet.

Latest version

0.4.18. Dolly updates itself, and every update is free. Changelog.

Price

Free

€0. No time limit, no video limit, the full editor and Auto edit, export up to 1440p with a 2-second Made with Dolly end card.

Lifetime

€5 once. No end card, 4K at 60 fps, GIF export, all future updates, up to 3 of your Macs.

Pro

€19 once. Everything in Lifetime, plus Connect your AI. From Lifetime, the upgrade is €14.

The deal

No subscription, no seats, no account needed. Refund within 30 days. Pricing.

Record, edit, export

Record

A display, a window (click it on screen) or an area (the last one is remembered) at 60 fps, with microphone, system audio and camera in sync. An iPhone or iPad over a cable is coming soon.

While recording

A teleprompter under your camera (⇧⌘1) and drawing on screen (⇧⌘D). Neither appears in the video; drawings stay editable.

Edit

Auto zoom, 25 cursor sets, backgrounds and frames, a timeline with several takes, cutting a middle part in two actions, speed per clip, blur, title cards, captions, and a Transcript tab: select words and press ⌫, or remove ums and long pauses in one click. Title, summary and chapters suggested on your Mac.

Export

MP4 in 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K at 24, 30 or 60 fps, in 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4 or 9:16. Tall shapes follow the action, and Also export vertical adds a 9:16 file in the same run. Streaming loudness (-16 LUFS). GIF on Lifetime and Pro. ⌘E exports, ⇧⌘E copies the video to the clipboard.

Interactive demos

Export › Interactive demo turns a recording into a clickable step-by-step demo (one step per click or burst of typing, captions from what you said), saved as a folder that opens offline or shared as a demo link. Every plan; Free shows a small Made with Dolly link. Interactive demos.

Dolly links

Get link

A short link on link.getdolly.app, on your clipboard in under a second; it plays as soon as the video is ready. ⇧⌘L in the editor, or set After recording to Get link and stopping is enough.

Watch page

Comments at a moment (no login), video replies (a viewer records their screen or camera, up to 5 minutes), reactions, transcript and captions, chapters, a call-to-action button, password, expiry, downloads on or off, embed.

In Dolly

Every link has its own page in Dolly Home with Insights (views, unique viewers, average watched, a drop-off curve, without cookies), Comments (reply as the creator) and Settings.

Price

Free during the beta. Dolly links.

Privacy

On your Mac

Recording, transcription, editing and export happen on your Mac. Nothing leaves it unless you choose Get link, and then only that video.

Accounts

None. Your license key works offline. Viewers of a link don't need an account either.

Dolly Agent (MCP)

What it does

Your own AI drives Dolly through MCP: it records, edits, works with the transcript, looks, annotations and teleprompter, exports MP4, GIF or an interactive demo, manages your Dolly links, and makes whole explainer series of your app with a voice-over made on your Mac. Not through MCP: drawing with the pen during a take, and deleting links or comments.

Works with

Claude Desktop (one-click install), Claude Code (command and skill), Cursor and any MCP app that runs local servers. ChatGPT not yet.

Plan

Pro. Dolly itself calls no AI and has no per-video cost. Dolly Agents · llms.txt.

Not in Dolly yet

Planned

Windows, Intel Macs.

Coming soon

Recording an iPhone or iPad over a cable.

Not planned for now

A team workspace or shared video library.