Record the demo, not six attempts at it
Live coding never goes clean: a typo, the wrong terminal, a hot reload that takes four seconds too long. OneTake snips those moments while you’re still recording, so a 90-second demo takes 90 seconds.
The repro that won’t reproduce cleanly
The bug fires, but you fumbled the narration — or the bug waits until take four. Restarting the recording means restarting the setup. Snipping means the dead time just disappears from the file.
Editing a code demo is worse than writing it
Nobody budgets an hour of timeline scrubbing for a two-minute PR walkthrough. So the walkthrough doesn’t get recorded, and the PR gets reviewed cold.
Cloud recorders and proprietary code
Screens full of internal code, credentials and customer data have no business auto-uploading to someone else’s cloud mid-recording. Local-first is not a preference here — it’s policy.
Drive the whole take without leaving your editor
Every action is a global hotkey: start, pause, snip the last 10 seconds, toggle the overlay. Fumble a command? Hit the snip key, run it again, keep talking — your hands never leave the keyboard and the flub never reaches the file. Every binding is remappable.
This is the real overlay reacting to each shortcut — try the full app on the homepage.
Built for exactly this work
NDA-safe by architecture
Capture, snipping, preview and export all run on your machine. Nothing uploads anywhere — recordings of internal code stay internal.
Native on Linux too
Windows, macOS and Linux builds — an AppImage, not an afterthought. One $49 license covers two of your machines.
Cuts as data
Export the finished file, or the cut list as JSON, CMX3600, FCPXML or Premiere/Resolve XML — your snips are structured data, not baked-in mystery.
Good questions
Ship the walkthrough with the PR
Try the live demo in your browser — hotkeys and all — then pay once and record every demo, repro and walkthrough after it.