Record your screen, your face, and your phone.
Edit them like a pro. All on your Mac.
Threelane is the local-first studio for creators who hate uploading. One click captures every angle. Nothing ever touches a cloud.
Good videos shouldn't need five apps and a Dropbox.
OBS for the screen. Your phone on a tripod. CapCut to stitch it. Dropbox to move the files. Something desyncs, something crashes, the day is gone.
Record → Edit → Export.
Three steps. No tabs. No uploads.
Record
One click captures your screen, laptop webcam, mic, and your phone camera as a second angle.
- Scan a QR code to pair your phone
- No cables, no App Store, no accounts
- Phone clip auto-uploads over WiFi when you stop
Edit
Split the recording into scenes. Pick a layout per scene. Zoom and pan without re-recording.
- Layouts: screen-only, camera-only, split, phone-only, screen + camera bubble
- Cursor-follow auto-pan for zoomed screens
- Per-scene audio source (mic / camera / phone)
Export
MP4 in portrait, landscape, or square. Smart defaults for Reels, Shorts, TikTok, and YouTube.
- 1080×1920 · 1920×1080 · 1080×1080
- ffmpeg under the hood — no re-encode pain
- Projects saved as plain folders you can inspect or delete
Desktop-grade, not browser-grade.
Native Mac app. Recordings don't stutter. Long sessions don't crash a tab.
Screen + webcam + mic + phone, all at once
Everything captured as separate tracks. Mix and re-layout after the fact.
Phone as second camera
Scan a QR code with iOS or Android. Records in sync, uploads over WiFi. No cables. No App Store.
Per-scene layouts
Screen-only. Camera-only. Phone-only. Split. Screen + camera bubble. Swap any time.
Portrait / landscape / square
Pick an orientation per project. Screens get smart cover framing — not letterboxes.
Cursor-follow zoom
Zoom in and the frame smoothly tracks your mouse. The polished-tutorial effect, automated.
Non-destructive scenes
Split, delete, rearrange. Change layouts. The raw tracks stay untouched.
Per-scene audio source
Mic for talking head, phone for ambient, camera for walk-and-talk. Your call.
MP4 export with ffmpeg
Industry-standard encoder. Clean output. No "processing…" spinner eating your afternoon.
Projects are just folders
Inspect them in Finder. Move them to another Mac. Delete them. Done.
Your recordings never leave your Mac.
Private by default
No uploads. No accounts. No telemetry. Your face, your screen, your data — yours.
No subscription
Pay nothing. Nothing expires. No "Pro" tier gating the export button.
No upload wait
Finish recording. Edit. Export. Post. All at SSD speed — not Wi-Fi speed.
Works on a plane
No network dependency. Record, edit, and export at 35,000 feet.
One tool. Every format.
Reels today, a YouTube tutorial tomorrow, a square clip for LinkedIn next week.
Portrait
Reels, Shorts, TikTok. Screen sits in a cover frame with your face in a bubble — no dead bars.
Landscape
Long-form YouTube. Screen + camera side-by-side. Cursor-follow zoom for the code-walkthroughs.
Square
LinkedIn, Instagram feed, podcast clips. Balanced framing that works everywhere.
Short answers.
Is it free?
Yes — for now. No paywall, no trial, no credit card.
Does it work on Intel Macs?
Yes. Apple Silicon is the primary target, but Intel is supported.
Windows? Linux?
Not yet. Mac only. Multi-platform is on the radar, not the roadmap.
How is it different from Loom or Riverside?
Local-first. Multi-cam. Your phone as a second camera. Nothing ever uploaded, nothing gated behind a login.
Do I need to install anything on my phone?
No. Scan a QR code, open the PWA in your phone's browser, and hit record. Works on iOS and Android.
Where are my recordings stored?
~/Movies/Threelane/. Each project is a plain folder — inspect it, move it, delete it.
Is this trying to replace Premiere?
No. It's the 90% case for creators who make one video a week and want it to look great in ten minutes.
Built with tools that respect your machine.
Three lanes. One click. Zero cloud.
Download Threelane and record your next video in ten minutes — end to end.