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Screen recording

Press ⌘⇧R to film your screen for a bug, a piece of feedback or an idea, and ⌘⇧R again to stop. The film comes with a report: what the page in Chrome logged and which requests failed, your Mac's details, and what you said.

FreeMacScreen RecordingMicrophone

Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

• ⌘⇧RStarts filming the display your pointer is on, at once. A pill at the bottom shows the time with Pause, Stop and × (throw it away). ⌘⇧R again stops
• ⌘D while filmingHighlight: circle, underline or click what matters, as ⌘D marks the screen in the palette. The marks are in the film, and ⌘D again (or Return) goes on; Esc throws them away. The pill says Highlighting meanwhile
• record my screenstart screen recordingThe same, said
• stop recordingStops and saves it
• my screen recordingsEvery film, newest first, with how many console errors and failed requests each caught
• On Windows: Alt+Shift+R starts and stops it, with the same pill (Pause, Stop, ×, then Copy, Report, Show, Ask). The film is on the clipboard as a file, so Ctrl+V pastes the video into a chat, a mail or a folder
• When it stops, the film is already on the clipboard: ⌘V in Slack, Linear or Finder pastes the video, and in a terminal its path and its report's (…/2026-10-27-125645.mp4 …/2026-10-27-125645.md), for a coding agent to read. The pill says what it caught (2 console errors · 1 failed request) with Copy (on the clipboard again), Report, Show (in Finder) and Ask (a sentence about the report in the palette, for a coding agent to fix)

How it works

The screen is filmed by ScreenCaptureKit at up to 30 frames a second, 4K at most, as an H.264 MP4. A still screen costs nothing, and a pause is cut out of the film. Jevie's own windows, the pill among them, are never in the picture. The microphone goes with it, so you can talk through what you are showing.

If Chrome is in front when you start, Jevie attaches to that tab (Chrome shows its is debugging this browser bar) and keeps the page's errors, warnings and failed requests from that moment. Each highlight is kept at its moment on the film with what is under it, read from the app itself (a button and its name, a link and its address). When you stop, a report goes beside the film with those, the app and page you were in, and this Mac: model, chip, memory, free disk, thermal state and macOS version.

Then what you said is heard on your Mac, and a short write-up (a title, what happened, the steps with their times) is added to the report. The title shows on the pill when it is ready.

Limits

• Needs Screen Recording permission; the microphone needs macOS 15 or later.
• Films the whole display under the pointer; a window or an area alone is not offered yet.
• Console and network come only from Chrome, and only from the tab in front when you started.
• The write-up sends what you said and the page's errors to Mercury; the film never leaves your Mac. Sharing is your own copy and paste.
• ⌘D belongs to Jevie only while a film runs (Chrome's bookmark key among those it takes); after, it is the app's again.
• On Windows the film is silent for now (nothing from the microphone, so no write-up of what was said), there is no highlighting while filming, and it is made from the screen as Windows draws it at up to 1920 across; a secure screen (an administrator's yes, the lock screen) is left out. The report says This Mac for the PC's details.
• ⌘⇧R is taken from other apps while Jevie runs (Chrome's hard reload among them); on the session wall, naming a tab is ⌥⌘R. defaults write ai.jevie.jevie recordKey -bool false gives ⌘⇧R back, recordMic -bool false films without the microphone, recordAudio -bool true adds the Mac's own sound.

Where it's kept

~/.jevie/recordings: each film as <date>-<time>.mp4 (no spaces, so a pasted path needs no quotes), its report as .md and .json, what was said as .m4a.

In Jevie, help highlight answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 30 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us