Record it once. Run it forever.
MotionTrace captures every click, keystroke and movement on your Mac — in any app. Play it back as a glowing trail over your screen, or hand it the controls and let it re-run the whole thing for real.
Record ⌥R
One hotkey, any app. Every click, keystroke and movement is captured system-wide, pixel-perfect on Retina.
Replay ⌥P
A transparent overlay retraces your exact path — comet trail, a halo on every click, the original timing. It touches nothing.
Re-run ⟳
Or hand it the controls: MotionTrace drives your real mouse and keyboard and performs the work again itself.
Made for the work
you repeat.
Use cases
Product walkthroughs
Record the perfect run once. On stage or on a call, replay it hands-free while you narrate — no fumbled clicks, no dead ends.
Tutorials & onboarding
Show the exact clicks with a trail people can actually follow. New teammates watch the motion, not a wall of screenshots.
Repetitive workflows
The same export, the same form, the same fifteen clicks every morning — record them once and re-run them on command.
Bug reproductions
Capture the precise steps that trigger an issue, then re-run them on every build. "Can't reproduce" stops being an answer.
The details.
SpecificationsAny app, system-wide
Finder, browsers, design tools, terminals, games. Capture happens beneath the app layer — if the cursor goes there, it's recorded.
Pixel-perfect on Retina
Anchored to the true cursor position, scale-factor corrected. Zero coordinate drift between record and replay.
Recordings library
Save, name and reopen recordings. Each keeps its complete event stream, duration and click count.
Native glass UI
A real macOS vibrancy surface — HUD, sidebar or frosted material, accent colours, transparency tuned by slider.
Local only
No account, no cloud, no telemetry on your input. Recordings never leave your machine.
Feather-light
About 40 MB on disk, near-zero CPU at idle. ⌥R record · ⌥P replay · esc stop.
Free. No catch.
PricingQuestions.
FAQmacOS gates global input capture for every tool of this kind — the same screen recorders and window managers ask for it. Grant it once under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, relaunch, and you're done. Nothing you record leaves your Mac.
Replay draws your recording on a transparent overlay — trail, halos, original timing — without touching anything. Re-run actually drives your mouse and keyboard to perform the actions again for real. Replay to demonstrate; re-run to automate.
Yes — capture happens at the system level, not inside any one app. Finder, browsers, design tools, terminals, games. If your cursor can go there, MotionTrace records it.
Recordings are anchored to the true cursor position the instant capture starts, and your display's scale factor is measured and compensated automatically. Pixel-perfect is meant literally.
Never. No account, no cloud, no analytics on your input. Recordings live on your machine, and only there.