Trim to a range
Set the start and the end from wherever the playhead is, and reset to the full clip when you change your mind.
Record your screen. Keep it on your Mac.
A full editor with captions, auto zoom and a movable camera. No account, no upload, no subscription.
Record it. Fetch it. Ship it.
Every panel below is a screenshot of the real thing, not a diagram of it.
Cut out the middle
Turn the cut tool on and drag across the timeline. The section goes, and the video and audio stay in sync.
Remove dead air
It finds the silent gaps and takes them out for you, so a rambling take tightens up without you hunting for the pauses.
Zoom where your cursor settles
Fetch samples your cursor while you record, then pushes in where the pointer travelled a long way and stopped. You set how hard it pushes.
Sit it on a backdrop
Six gradients, or drop in an image of your own. The recording is inset over the top with rounded corners.
Crop it for anywhere
16:9, 1:1, 9:16 or 4:3. The recording is fitted inside whichever shape you pick, so it is ready for the place it is going.
Transcribe on the machine
Parakeet on the Neural Engine. A two minute recording comes back in about a second and a half. Keep the cues editable or bake them into the file so they play anywhere.
Style the captions
Font, size, colour, and placement top, middle or bottom. A pill background, or an outline if you turn it off.
Clean up the audio
Denoise the hiss and hum, normalise the loudness so levels stay even, and ride the gain from one slider.
Everything you need after you hit stop.
Trim, caption and mix on one timeline, then export to MP4, WebM, GIF or audio only.
Set the range, cut a section out of the middle, or let it find the silent gaps for you.
Nothing leaves your Mac. Here is the receipt.
Loom uploads your recording and gives you a link back. Fetch writes a file to your Desktop. Everything below follows from that.
- No account
There is no backend, so there is nothing to sign in to. Fetch has never had a server, which is a stronger promise than a privacy policy is.
- Two things it contacts
It asks GitHub whether a newer version exists, and once a day it says that one more copy of Fetch exists. That second one sends a random id, the app version and your macOS version. Never a filename, a recording, a transcript, or anything you typed. There is no account to attach it to.
raw.githubusercontent.com · /api/ping
- Both have an off switch
Turn off auto-update and it stops asking. Turn off the install count in Settings and Fetch says nothing at all. Build it yourself without a metrics endpoint and that code path does not exist.
- Transcription runs on your Mac
Parakeet on the Neural Engine. A two minute recording comes back in about a second and a half on an M5 Pro. You do not have to take a landing page's word for it, because the app says so itself:
From the captions panel, unedited. - And you can check all of it
The source is public and GPL-3.0. Every claim above is one grep away, which is the only reason a privacy section is worth reading at all.
github.com/SankrityaT/Fetch
- Recordings are just files
They land on your Desktop, or a folder you pick. Delete Fetch tomorrow and they are still sitting there.
~/Desktop