No OBS required — v2.1 is out

Record once. Snip mistakes. Never re-take.

OneTake is a screen recorder that cuts flubs the instant they happen and exports one clean take — no editing afterwards. Record a screen, a window, your camera, or a region framed for Reels. Open the live app fullscreen to try it.

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How it works

From take to finished clip in three steps

01

Pick a source and go

Choose a screen, a window, your camera — or draw a region and pick its shape: 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, 16:9, 1:1 or 4:5. Arm your mic and camera bubble, and record — zero setup, no OBS needed. Already an OBS user? Connect your scene instead for full encoder control.

02

Record and snip live

Hit record and keep rolling. Flubbed a line? Tap Snip to drop the last 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds — no stopping, no scrubbing.

03

Preview and ship

Stop to open a cut-aware preview. Fine-tune on the timeline, then export one clean file — or an EDL for your editor.

New in 2.1

Record straight into the shape your platform wants

Draw the region, pick 9:16, and your Reel comes out ready to upload — with your camera in the corner if you want it there. Every word of that is measured or built.

Record a region of your screen

Draw a rectangle on any display and record only that. A thin frame — solid, dashed or dotted, in your colour — shows where the edges are and never appears in the file. Move the region while you record and the video follows.

Ready-to-upload formats

Pick 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok — or 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5 — right in the picker. OneTake frames the recording in that shape as it records, so nothing is cropped or thrown away afterwards.

Your camera, pinned or filling

With a region armed, the camera bubble sits in its corner and moves with it. Fill region makes the bubble the region itself — and you can switch it mid-take: a talking-head Reel, then back to the screen, without editing.

Record your camera directly

Choose a camera as the source and record it at the camera's own frame rate, no screen involved. Mirror my camera decides which way round you appear, for the bubble and a camera recording alike.

Decide how a move lands

Instant follows your hand, Glide eases the recording over in one smooth pan, Snap cuts to it. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Arrows nudge the region from the keyboard, mid-take too.

Sound and picture in step

Takes now begin on their first frame in every player — Windows' own included — and snipped exports keep every piece in sync.

A region is lighter to record than the whole screen: fewer pixels to encode. In our test, a 9:16 region over playing video recorded at 28 fps where the full screen managed 13–19 on the same machine. One machine, one measurement — not a promise about yours.

It’s all in the live demo at the top of this page — hit Try it myself and click a Regions card in the picker.

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Hotkeys

Run the whole take from the keyboard

Every action has a global hotkey, so you never tab back to OBS mid-recording. Watch the overlay react as each shortcut fires.

FAQ

Questions, answered

OneTake is a screen recorder built around one idea: fix mistakes while you record, not after. It runs as an always-on-top overlay above your OBS Studio scene — record, snip flubbed lines the moment they happen, and export one clean take without ever opening a separate editor.
While you record, tap Snip and choose how many seconds to drop — 5, 10, 30 or 60. OneTake marks that span as a cut and keeps rolling. When you stop, it shows a cut-aware preview so you can fine-tune, then merges everything into one clean file.
No — OneTake records on its own: pick a screen or window, arm your mic (and camera bubble if you want one), and go. If you already run OBS, connect it instead and keep full control of scenes and encoders; the snip workflow is identical in both modes. The install guide covers both paths.
OneTake runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux. Grab the build for your OS on the download page.
One payment of $49 unlocks OneTake forever, with your first year of updates included. After that, updates are an optional $29/year — the app keeps working either way. See the pricing page for details.
Completely. OneTake is local-first: your recordings are captured, snipped and exported on your own machine and never uploaded anywhere. There is no cloud processing and no account required to record.
OneTake updates itself automatically on Windows and Linux; on macOS you download the new build. Your license covers two devices — say a desktop and a laptop — which you can manage any time from your dashboard.
Use OBS mode for those — that’s exactly what it’s there for. The built-in recorder is tuned for demos, tutorials and talking over your work; gameplay and full-screen video are heavy cases where OBS’s engine keeps every frame, and OneTake drives it with the identical snip workflow. The recording-quality guide explains the split honestly.
Window capture runs at roughly half the frame rate of capturing the whole screen — at any window size, with any content. When smoothness matters, record the entire screen (tidy your desktop instead), or switch to OBS mode. Settings won’t change this; what you capture will. More in the recording-quality guide.
Two honest answers. During the preview and export the bubble parks itself and comes back when you're done — it looks like the camera switched off, but it didn't. And in a single-window capture the bubble is never in the recording at all: the system composites it onto the screen, outside the window's own pixels — capture the full screen when you want your face in frame (the source picker says so too).
It's a platform limitation of the capture engine, not a setting we withheld — desktop loopback audio simply isn't exposed the same way on macOS and Linux. On those platforms, use OBS mode when you need system audio; the mic works everywhere.
No. The frame that marks your region — white while you set up, red while recording — is drawn outside the region and hidden from screen capture on Windows and macOS. It exists for you, never for the file.
Yes — drag its handle, or nudge it with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Arrows, mid-take. You also choose how the move lands in the file: Instant follows your hand, Glide eases over in one smooth pan, Snap cuts straight to it.
Almost always: the room is dim. Webcams lengthen their exposure to gather light, which lowers their own frame rate — Windows Camera does the same in the same light. OneTake records your camera at the frame rate the camera delivers; give it more light and the rate comes back.

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