Record an area, a window, or the full Mac screen

Start a screen recording of one area, one window, or the whole display, then stop it from the recording toolbar.

Record mode is the moving picture of the screen. Sound, a webcam, click highlights, and keystrokes are separate switches. Turn them on only in their own guides. This page is how you start and stop the recording.

Start and stop

Choose Record from the menu or the All-In-One picker.
Select an area, a window, or the full screen.
Pick a format. MP4 or MOV when you may add sound later. GIF or animated WebP when the result should be a short moving image.
Stop from the recording toolbar.

You can dim the display and show a recording timer while the clip runs. Those stay with the recording session. They are not extra capture modes.

If recording does nothing

Grant Screen Recording, quit Shoverlay, and open it again. The file stays on your Mac. There is no Kingfont account and no usage tracking.

Install Shoverlay on the Mac App Store.