Record what
you're hearing.
Record everything your Mac plays, a single app, or a microphone. One click. No drivers, no routing, no setup, no account.
Built for how you
already work.
Menu bar, always there
Lives in your menu bar and keeps running when you close the window. One click opens a compact popover — waveform, timer, record button — so you never leave what you're working in.
Lossless, or small enough to send
WAV is the default: 48 kHz stereo, no compression, no codec artifacts, ready for any DAW. FLAC is lossless too, at roughly 0.6× the size. M4A when you just need to send someone a file.
Live waveform feedback
A live waveform in the popover and the main window, moving with the real signal. You can see audio reaching the file — not just a light telling you it should be.
One permission, no drivers
No virtual audio drivers. No loopback routing. No Audio MIDI Setup. Grant Screen Recording once and you're set. Recording a microphone asks for one more permission, the first time only.
Three steps.
That's it.
Pick what to record
Everything your Mac plays, a single app, or a microphone. Choose once in the menu bar — Home Rec remembers, and tells you what it's about to record.
Press record
From the menu bar popover or the main window. The timer and waveform confirm audio is really flowing.
Take the file
Press stop. The file lands with a timestamped name on your Desktop, or wherever you've pointed it, ready to drag into a DAW.
Record one app.
Leave the rest alone.
Pick one app from the Capture Source menu and Home Rec records that and nothing else — no Slack pings, no browser tab in your take. The list only shows apps that actually have audio, so it stays short. Or pick a microphone, for a voiceover or a quick idea. One source at a time: a mic take captures the mic, not what your Mac is playing.
It's all yours.
Built by one person, given away on purpose. If Home Rec earns a place on your Mac, you can buy me a coffee — a gift, never a price.