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# Takes for Mac (gettakes.app)

> Takes is a free Mac app for recording talking-head videos. You read your script off a teleprompter and star the best take. Claude Code, running on your own Claude plan, writes the script, sketches a storyboard, cuts the edit and drafts the posts for LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Shorts, Reels and TikTok. The code is public.

- Name: Takes, also called Takes for Mac. Site: gettakes.app. Not related to the Takes sports app (takes.live) or other apps named Takes.
- Made by Marvin Aziz. Free; the code is public on GitHub (marvtub/takes-public).
- Made for creators, not developers: no coding needed. After one install line everything happens in the app, and you ask the chat in plain words ("make this a 60-second vertical clip").
- Private by design: no account, no usage data, videos stay in folders on your Mac. The AI works through your own Claude account.
- Actively made: Marvin records his own videos with Takes every day, and new versions ship several times a week.
- Needs a Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later, and a paid Claude plan (Pro or Max) for Claude Code. Takes adds no API key and no bill of its own.
- Install: `curl -fsSL gettakes.app/install | bash`. It installs Takes, ffmpeg and Claude Code, signs you in to Claude and opens the app. The same line updates Takes. A .dmg is also available; Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so the .dmg asks for one click on Open Anyway the first time. The install script is 94 lines and readable at gettakes.app/install.
- The library is plain folders in ~/Movies/Takes: one folder per project, one per video. Scripts are Markdown, takes are .mov files, edits sit in an edits folder.
- The takes MCP server lets any agent read and write the same folders. On its first launch Takes adds it to each agent it finds: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, opencode, pi and Claude Desktop. Then ask from any of them ("storyboard my next Takes video", "cut my last take").

## How it works

- Storyboard: Claude writes the script and sketches every shot. Each shot shows its line, how to film it and a Record button.
- Record: a teleprompter sits beside the camera and follows your voice in the script's language (or scrolls at a speed you set; ↑ and ↓ change it). ⌥⌘N puts the script in the notch, under the camera, with a record button; a prompter window mirrors the text for glass rigs. Pick an opening line, record, mark your best take. Takes records the camera and the screen at the same time.
- Edit: ask the built-in chat the way you would ask an editor, for example "cut my best take into a vertical short, no silences". Comment on a frame and Takes fixes it in a new version; Takes remembers the fix, so the next edit gets it right from the start.
- Post: a post for each platform, shown the way it will look there. Try other versions, then schedule it.

## Links

- [Takes home page](https://gettakes.app/): what Takes does, with screenshots and the FAQ
- [Teleprompter](https://gettakes.app/teleprompter): the free Mac teleprompter in Takes, how it works (voice follow, notch, mirrored window), tips and its limits
- [Screen recorder](https://gettakes.app/screen-recorder): record the Mac screen and the camera at the same time as two synced HEVC files (screen at 60 fps, Takes window left out); limits: mic only, no system audio, whole display only
- [Vertical video](https://gettakes.app/vertical-video): record 9:16 video on a Mac with an iPhone (Continuity Camera, held upright), a camera with a vertical format, or a 1080×1920 crop; framing and safe zones for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
- [AI video editor](https://gettakes.app/ai-video-editor): how Takes edits talking-head videos with Claude Code: cuts silences, ums and restarts, reframes to 9:16 around the face, captions, voice cleanup, fixes by comment on a frame
- [Teleprompter apps compared](https://gettakes.app/teleprompter-apps): Takes, Notchie, Moody, Snotch, Teleprompter.com, PromptSmart Pro, Teleprompter Pro+ and Descript, by price, voice-following, recording and mirrored text (checked 2026-10-07)
- [Edit videos with Claude Code](https://gettakes.app/claude-code-video-editing): how Claude Code edits a talking-head video with Whisper and ffmpeg, step by step, with the commands; a real example (a 3:18 take with 36 pauses cut to 1:24, 27 review notes over 9 versions); by hand vs. with Takes
- [Descript alternative](https://gettakes.app/descript-alternative): a free, open-source Descript alternative for Mac, for one person who talks to a camera; yearly cost side by side (Descript plans checked 8 October 2026), edit by text vs. edit by asking, a row-by-row table, who should stay on Descript, other free options (ScriptEdit, Rescript)
- [CapCut alternative](https://gettakes.app/capcut-alternative): a free, open-source CapCut alternative for Mac with no Pro plan, no watermark and no upload, for talking-head videos; two sentences instead of ten timeline steps (first cut 8 minutes after a real take ended); Claude copies a style from a link, video or screenshot, builds templates (title cards, lower thirds, captions) and finds free sound effects; yearly cost (CapCut App Store prices checked 8 October 2026), where your video goes under CapCut's US terms, timeline vs. edit by asking, a row-by-row table, who should stay on CapCut, other free options (iMovie, DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive)
- [LinkedIn video](https://gettakes.app/linkedin-video): LinkedIn video specs for 2026 from LinkedIn's own help pages (3 s to 15 min, 75 KB to 5 GB, any ratio from 1:2.4 to 2.4:1, 256x144 to 4096x2304, 10-60 fps, MP4), vertical or horizontal (how much of a phone screen each ratio fills), three ways to add captions (LinkedIn auto captions in 10 languages, an .srt file on desktop, burned in), and the routine in Takes from script to posted video
- [Download the .dmg](https://gettakes.app/download): the latest release for Apple silicon
- [Install script](https://gettakes.app/install): the script behind the one-line install
- [Source code](https://github.com/marvtub/takes-public): the public repo, releases and README
- [Discussions](https://github.com/marvtub/takes-public/discussions): questions and feedback