If you have ever recorded a video, you know there is a lot to think about.
It is harder than it seems to get everything right:
Set up lighting that interacts with your footage, during recording or afterward. This helps make any room good enough for recording.
Move from face-to-face to picture-in-picture, step inside your slides, or give the content the whole screen—all in the same presentation.
This was recorded with an iPhone 16 Pro. PocketPresenter separates you from the room and creates a strong background blur, without requiring a dedicated camera or a special lens.
But then you need to understand masking and compositing, tune the effect by hand and repeat the workflow for every recording. In node-based tools such as DaVinci Resolve, that can mean a tedious node graph. Other editors may also require an expensive subscription.
On a compatible Mac, choose your iPhone from the camera menu and record with its rear cameras. No cable required.
Compatible phones, webcams and dedicated cameras get the same live preview, layouts and recording tools, but you’ll probably need to connect them with a USB cable.
Wireless iPhone capture uses Apple Continuity Camera.
Every camera and microphone source is stored separately and unprocessed. PocketPresenter only combines them when you review or export, leaving the original recordings untouched.
PocketPresenter applies the microphone choice, mix, mask and layout in Review instead of burning those decisions into the recordings. If a setting was wrong, change it after the take. You do not need to get everything right before you press Record.
The source recordings are ordinary video and WAV files. Open them in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or any other editor. Your work is never trapped inside PocketPresenter.
Without sketchy screen recording.
Paste a YouTube URL. PocketPresenter imports the video as a slide, ready to play while you record your reaction. No capturing a browser window or lining up separate recordings.
Optional automatic attribution
Give viewers a clear path back to the creator. Turn on attribution to show the creator’s name, video title and a QR code linking to the source video automatically on first play.
You choose whether to show it, for each YouTube slide.
Play it live.
A punchline. A surprise. A perfectly timed sound. Trigger your own effects with a keypress while you present, and let your reactions become part of the performance.
Keep the spontaneous timing. Skip searching through your recording to add every effect afterward. The sound and your reaction already belong together.
Assign your own sounds to the nine keys from A to L.
Play them without taking your eyes off the presentation.
Looking for sound effects? Explore Myinstants (opens in a new tab)
Quiet words brought forward. Loud moments kept in check. Your voice and slide audio, automatically balanced.
A backup for your voice, too. Record multiple microphones as separate tracks. Too close, too far away, or one mic disconnects? Choose another recorded source when you review.
No service. No subscription.
PocketPresenter records, automatically balances your audio and processes your video on your computer. Your footage stays on your drive until you choose to share it.
All AI effects run on your computer. A faster GPU makes a difference, especially when rendering longer videos.
8 GB of graphics memory recommendedFor a dedicated graphics card, that means 8 GB of VRAM. Apple silicon uses shared memory, so you also need room for macOS and the rest of the app.
Developed on an M5 Mac with 24 GB of memoryLonger videos still feel a bit slow to render on this machine. An M4 Pro, M4 Max, M5 Pro, M5 Max or M5 Ultra may be a better choice for longer videos.
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