Maos Record

A lightweight, open-source screen recorder for older Intel Macs.

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Maos Record records a selected display to an H.264 MP4 file, optionally adding microphone audio and a camera overlay. It uses native AppKit and AVFoundation instead of a browser engine, and includes low-load settings for Intel Macs that cannot run modern recording applications.

Download

Download the latest installer from GitHub Releases:

1. Download MaosRec-macOS-10.15-Intel.dmg.
2. Open the DMG.
3. Drag Maos Record.app onto the Applications shortcut.
4. Open Applications, right-click Maos Record, and choose Open on first launch.
5. Allow Screen Recording and, when used, Camera and Microphone access.

Requirements:

• macOS Catalina 10.15 or newer;
• Intel (x86_64) Mac.

Features

• Native, compact AppKit interface inspired by OBS source controls;
• selected-display recording to H.264 MP4;
• optional microphone or virtual audio-device recording;
• camera overlay with adjustable size and four corner positions;
• Economy 540p/12 fps mode for Macs with very limited CPU and memory;
• Balanced 720p/15 fps and Smooth 720p/30 fps modes;
• English, Russian, or automatic system language;
• automatic system light or dark appearance;
• configurable recordings folder;
• update notification, download, SHA-256 verification, installation, and relaunch;
• automated Intel DMG and ZIP releases through GitHub Actions.

macOS 10.15 does not provide ordinary applications with direct system-audio capture. Maos Record records the selected audio input. A virtual audio device can be selected when application audio is required.

Documentation

• English user guide
• Русское руководство

Build from source

GitHub Actions builds the Catalina-compatible Intel app automatically. On a Mac with Xcode installed:

bash Scripts/package.sh

The command creates:

• dist/MaosRec-macOS-10.15-Intel.dmg;
• dist/MaosRec-macOS-10.15-Intel.zip;
• dist/SHA256SUMS.txt.

To publish a release, push a version tag:

git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0

The workflow builds the app and adds all three files to GitHub Releases. No update-signing secrets are required. Public packages are ad-hoc signed, so macOS may require right-click → Open on first launch.

License

Maos Record is available under the MIT License.