Best alternatives to Flowy in 2026

Recording a quick product demo or tutorial usually means capturing your screen in one app, then dragging the footage into a video editor to add zooms and cleanup so viewers can actually follow what you clicked. Flowy skips that second step: while you record, it watches your cursor and automatically zooms and pans toward what you're doing, so the output already looks like an edited tutorial instead of a flat screen capture. It's a native macOS app sold as a one-time $19.99 purchase (no subscription) on the Mac App Store. Beyond the automatic cursor-based animations, it supports 4K recording, webcam overlay, background blur or custom backgrounds, multiple export formats (widescreen, square, vertical for social), and a built-in editor with presets so you can tweak the automatic effects instead of starting from scratch in a separate tool.