Release notes.

Complete agent video workflows.

The CLI can inspect native scene text and cameras, create continuous camera sweeps, edit template typography, append an editable icon and headline end card, and verify exported video and audio inside Demo Maker. Updated Claude and Codex instructions teach the complete workflow. Run the Agent Setup Prompt again after updating to refresh installed skills.

Voiceover offers Light and optional Heavy local models, with prompted Drama 3 narration and reference voices. Heavy downloads once, requires at least 48 GB of memory, and is subject to Fish Audio license eligibility. Built with Fish Audio.

This update also fixes a Duo export crash, preserves full-shot camera timing and caption styling, filters scenes by the selected device, and retains Retina headless editor walkthroughs.

Sharper headless editor walkthroughs.

Agent editor previews and walkthroughs now use the production editor layout at Retina resolution, with the correct window bounds, header, sidebar, and timeline placement. Native canvas frames render at higher quality.

This changes only agent-generated presentations. Normal editing, recording, and saved preferences retain their existing behavior.

Headless agent editing.

Agents can render editor previews and walkthroughs, apply edits, and export videos in isolated background jobs. Agent jobs use private presentation settings and return an error when an action would require a window or permission prompt.

The normal editor, recording controls, and saved preferences keep their existing behavior.

Make demos from your agent.

A bundled command-line interface lets coding agents create editable demos from video clips and isolated iOS Simulator captures. Agents can discover scenes and camera moves, compose shots and transitions, add captions, narration and music, inspect previews, and export through Demo Maker. Help → Copy Agent Setup Prompt installs the launcher and linked instructions for Claude and Codex.

Agent jobs report progress and recoverable errors, support cancellation, and publish output only after a successful export. Simulator capture does not record your desktop or open the Simulator window.

Smoother activation after updating.

Demo Maker now waits for automatic license renewal before showing an access result, preventing a brief error during startup after an update.

Keep your project open after updating.

Demo Maker preserves saved project access across updates and restarts.

• Refresh project access after autosaves and renew stale file permissions when reopening your work.
• Keep existing access if a permission refresh fails, without switching to a different project.

Email-verified sign-in. More reliable captions.

Account access and activation of a new Mac now require email verification. Already approved Macs stay signed in.

• Replaces license-key sign-in with a single-use email link for account access and new Mac activation.
• Preserves existing approved Macs and their normal license refresh.
• Keeps caption generation attached to the selected audio when the speech model is installed for the first time.
• Prevents delayed activation responses from restoring access after cancellation or sign-out.
• Retains the recording preview, Source export size, compression, timeline audio, and editor improvements from the previous release.

License-key sign-in. More reliable previews and exports.

This update adds license-key activation, fixes timeline previews and exports, and strengthens app verification.

• Adds license-key activation alongside the existing email sign-in.
• Shows your key after checkout and in your account, and emails it automatically after your purchase.
• Simplifies purchase confirmation with a copyable key, a clear download action, and installation help.
• Hardens the production executable and verifies its required security protections.
• Prevents delayed verification responses from restoring access after a Mac is deactivated.
• Keeps clip durations intact when seeking between videos of different lengths, and preserves captions added at a clip’s end.
• Fixes a crash when exporting transparent ProRes 4444 video with audio.
• Includes every timeline clip in Frames and Web exports, with clip timing, transitions, and transparency preserved.
• Explains when a 3D export needs more free disk space instead of reporting a generic frame-rendering failure.
• Keeps GIF playback duration accurate when frame delays need rounding.
• Shows the full size of Frames and Web export folders in recent exports.
• Exposes resolution choices for transparent videos and reports the dimensions used by the export, including cropped Source resolution.
• Keeps Source export dimensions consistent when selecting clips of different sizes.
• Shows the correct recording when paused after switching clips or leaving rendered playback.
• Removes the technical support reference from the Account screen.
• Prevents a delayed save error from an old project appearing on the current project.
• Preserves the compression choices, timeline audio controls, and editor improvements introduced in 1.0.10.

Smaller exports. Direct audio controls. More reliable editing.

This update brings the latest local editor improvements to the production app.

• Fixes a menu refresh loop that could leave the app unresponsive and Check for Updates unavailable.
• Adds Smaller file, Balanced, and Maximum quality compression without changing export resolution or frame rate.
• Adds a draggable volume line to audio clips, with a center snap at 0 dB and matching decibel controls in the inspector.
• Restores music timeline editing, visible trim and fade controls, and reliable music playback while adjusting volume.
• Simplifies sidebar controls, shows scenes inline by device, and improves background and scene browsing.
• Restores the orange wallpaper and spring zoom defaults, improves recording framing and corners, and keeps loading progress visible between rendered ranges.

Editable 3D scenes. Faster previews.

This update adds room sets, folding Duo scenes and a refreshed template gallery, with smoother editing and playback.

• Choose Sunlit Concrete, Oak Study or Midnight Grid in Set → Room, with detailed surface maps, room reflections and improved contact shadows.
• Pick a device or template and get the composition shown in its preview. Edit the template’s actual camera views, their timing and motion.
• Device resizing, set changes, sidebar switching and camera-rig toggling reuse prepared scenes and cached previews to reduce stalls.
• Playback and seeking keep the current scene in sync when changing rooms or devices. Completed rendering returns the progress bar to gray; blue fills only while measured progress is available.
• Camera scrolling and dragging are available only while editing a paused 3D camera view. Ordinary previews stay fixed.
• A more compact Set inspector, larger labeled room previews, and camera controls beside the editable view cards.
• Studio Display and its gallery templates are retired; Pro Display XDR remains available. Existing template IDs remain readable in saved projects.

Smoother cursors. A cleaner creative library.

This update improves cursor playback, refines the text and cursor galleries, and makes overlapping clicks easier to edit.

• Cursor previews follow the display’s refresh cadence, including when footage plays at slower speeds. Motion blur and click animation reuse artwork to reduce stuttering.
• The cursor picker keeps the correct artwork visible when you hover, click or move between styles.
• The Hand cursor keeps its natural proportions, and Tahoe has a refined shape, size and click position.
• Choose Emoji for a custom cursor. Paste an emoji or use the native emoji picker, including skin tones, flags and families.
• The text gallery now contains 11 selected styles. Chromatic Glow now shows its lettering and colored glow without a black background box. Existing projects retain their saved styles.
• Overlapping clicks occupy separate timeline rows so each remains visible and editable.
• Updated website previews show the revised cursors, text and editor while retaining the three-part hero.

Zooms stay editable at every timeline scale.

Zoom out to see your whole edit without losing control of individual zooms.

• Zoom blocks now remain separate when the timeline is zoomed out. Adjacent zooms no longer collapse into a group that cannot be dragged.
• Drag a small zoom block to move it. Zoom in to adjust its start or end, with each block keeping its own selection area.
• Fixed the 3D MacBook’s corners being cut off inside the video during camera moves.
• All website demo videos have been rendered again with the restored device frames and current creative library.

Your creative library is back.

This update restores earlier device frames, backgrounds and creative assets, keeps the new backgrounds, and makes the editor easier to navigate.

• Restored the earlier phone frames and 3D models, including the iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air, with their original screen fit, bezels and rear details.
• Classic wallpapers and gradients are back alongside the newer backgrounds. Use All, Classic or New to browse the wallpaper collection.
• Restored the earlier templates, motion presets, music, sound effects, cursor artwork, overlays and letter artwork.
• Advanced background adjustments now include a clear way back to the background options.
• The Cursor tab stays hidden when there is no cursor recording. The Zoom tab opens when you select a zoom in the timeline and hides when you close or clear the selection. Add zooms from the timeline.
• A persistent Update ready button appears beneath the editor toolbar when an update is prepared. It opens the install options and stays visible if you postpone the update.

Smoother automatic zooms.

This update eases automatic zooms in ahead of each click, keeps your zoom edits when you reopen a project, and stops asking for Accessibility.

• Automatic zooms now ease in over 0.8 seconds and are still just before each click, then ease out when they end. Before, they snapped in about a quarter of a second.
• In the zoom editor, Ease in and Ease out now set exactly how a zoom moves in and out. Zooms in projects from earlier versions keep moving as before until you change their easing or curve.
• Reopening a project, Undo and switching clips no longer bring back automatic zooms you deleted, or undo your changes to a zoom that covers more than one click.
• Demo Maker no longer lists or asks for Accessibility. No feature used it.
• If a recording stops while a project is still opening, Demo Maker now opens the recording as soon as the project has loaded. Until then, a notice offers Reveal in Finder.
• For projects saved outside Demo Maker’s own folder, copies of media that nothing has used for 30 days now move to the Trash.
• The 3D iPhone 15 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra now show their rear cameras on the correct side.
• In exports, a flat device frame that turns around now shows its back with the cameras on the correct side, and an oval Blur area stays oval.
• The timeline ruler uses minutes and seconds to match the playback clock, with fractional seconds when you zoom in. Its labels stay clear of tick marks and each other.
• Paused recorded footage no longer shows a second, oversized cursor over the recording.

Saving and Undo keep your media.

This update fixes media that saving and Undo could lose, exports that unreadable audio could stop, and the back of the 3D iPhone.

• Saved projects now keep their own copy of each background, companion device’s screen video and montage song. Before, a project lost them when the original file was moved or deleted, or when macOS cleaned up a temporary copy.
• If a screen recording finishes while a project is still opening, Demo Maker now waits for that project to open before saving it. Before, the project could be saved half open and lose its audio or markers.
• Undoing Replace video… or Mirror main video on a companion device now brings back that device’s own screen video. Before, it went back to mirroring the main recording, in the preview and the export.
• Undoing File → Open… or Replace media… now brings back the recording it replaced.
• If an audio clip or an older project’s soundtrack can’t be read, the export now leaves it out and names it in the export notes. Before, the export stopped with “Export didn’t finish. Cannot Open.”
• In the zoom editor, an Ease in or Ease out slider that has no effect on that zoom is now dimmed and shows Auto or Off. Before, it could be dragged without changing anything. Zooms move exactly as before.
• The rear camera and flash on the iPhone 17 Pro Max 3D models now sit on the correct side of the phone.
• The template and camera motion previews now show the 3D iPhone 17 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra as they render, with the black glass border around the screen.

The 3D iPhone gets its glass border. Clicks play back smoothly.

This update fixes the screen border on the 3D iPhone and how captured clicks play back.

• The 3D iPhone 17 Pro Max now shows the black glass border around its screen. Before, the recording ran to the metal edge.
• With Show click effects on, the pointer in a new recording follows your movement through each click. Before, it could stop on a click for about a second, then jump.
• Click effects now finish fading out. Before, a click followed by another click could cut its effect short.

Display and window recording open reliably.

This update repairs Apple’s screen picker on macOS 26.5.2 and makes Undo and Redo available from the Edit menu.

• Fixed: choosing Record Display or Record Window could crash the macOS Control Center process before Apple’s picker appeared.
• Canceling Apple’s picker now returns safely to New Recording.
• If the macOS picker host stops responding, Demo Maker explains how to retry and how to continue with Record Area.
• Edit → Undo and Edit → Redo now follow project history in the editor while continuing to work in text fields.

Recovered projects keep their media. Zooms from your first recording.

This update fixes a fault that could lose media from a recovered project, and makes automatic zooms work without extra setup.

• Fixed: after you restored unsaved work and saved it under a name, a later save could lose its camera video, voiceover or extra clips. A restored project now keeps every file it uses.
• If a camera video or audio clip is missing from disk, the save stops and names it. Your previous save and its media stay as they were.
• Fixed: WAV and AIFF audio clips that came back silent after reopening a project and made exports fail. Affected projects repair themselves when you open them.
• Create zooms automatically now works from the clicks a Mac recording captured. It no longer needs Show click effects, and a click outside the recorded window or area does not attract a zoom.
• Caption and voice model downloads are more reliable. A working model stays available while its replacement downloads and is checked.
• The File menu is always present, including while your license is being checked.

Safer projects. A refreshed creative library.

This update improves project recovery, local voice tools, and the finishing touches for your next demo.

• A refreshed library of original device frames, backgrounds, cursors, music, and sound effects.
• More reliable autosave and project recovery, with safer Save As and export replacement. Failed or canceled exports leave your previous file intact.
• Montage exports check for missing images and recordings that are too short before rendering, with a clear message explaining what to fix.
• Voice-following speech recognition stays on your Mac, including its fallback path. If local recognition is unavailable, Demo Maker explains how to continue.
• Fixed local voice generation failures caused by missing runtime resources. Optional voice models still need an initial download.
• Signed in-app updates, with update preferences in Settings and Check for Updates in the Demo Maker menu.

Demo Maker 1.0.

This published download brings screen recording and product-video editing together in a native Mac app.

• Record your screen and work with local project files.
• Edit framing, zooms, cursor effects, text, and sound.
• Sign in with your checkout email and activate up to two Macs.