Magpie 2.2: your keystrokes, in the recording

A recording of somebody using keyboard shortcuts is close to useless if you can't see which keys they pressed. Magpie 2.2 can draw them into the video: an optional overlay puts what you type along the bottom as chips, plain typing reads as a running line, shortcuts get a chip of their own (⌘⇧S), and the line fades when you pause.

It's drawn into the recording only. Your screen looks exactly as it always does while you work, nothing is ever stored, and window recordings get it just like full-screen ones. Settings ▸ Capture ▸ Recording holds the default and a display-time picker. Seeing keys typed into other apps needs the Accessibility permission, which is the one thing here that will ask you for something.

Per-recording toggles arrived alongside it. System audio, microphone, click highlighting and keystrokes each have a button on the pre-record panel next to the format picker. They start at your Settings defaults, now labeled "by default" to make the relationship obvious, and they apply to that one recording. Flipping the mic on for a single video no longer turns it on for every video after it. Version 2.2.1 pulled the cursor setting into the same arrangement and split it in two: screenshots default to hiding the cursor, because a screenshot usually wants a clean image, and recordings default to showing it, because a recording is usually following the pointer.

If you annotate most of what you capture, Settings ▸ General has a new After capture option that sends every finished screenshot straight into the editor. Recordings and animated exports are left alone.

The overlay's Quick Look is the real thing now, the same panel Finder uses. It opens centered and resizable, a tall scrolling capture can be panned and zoomed instead of being squeezed into a fixed frame, recordings play with native controls, and there's an "Open with Preview" button in the title bar.

Three small ones to finish. The click ripple lingers a touch longer (0.7s rather than 0.45s) so it reads as a pulse instead of a blink. JPEG captures encode at quality 93 instead of 90, for crisper text when JPEG is what you've chosen. And pressing a capture shortcut while a selection is already on screen no longer stacks a second selection on top of the first and leaves it waiting underneath once you've finished the one you could see.

Magpie is $9.99 one time for 3 Macs, with a 14-day full Pro trial and screenshots free forever after that. Grab it from the Magpie page or with Homebrew: brew install --cask skulkworks/tap/magpie. Full details are in the changelog.