Home Rec for MAC

Home Rec is a free, open-source app that records the audio your Mac is playing. It uses Apple's ScreenCaptureKit, so there are no virtual audio drivers, kernel extensions or routing to set up: launch it, click record, and it captures everything your Mac plays, a single app or a microphone. Recordings are saved as lossless WAV by default, or as FLAC or M4A, with a live waveform in the main window and in the menu bar.

Home Rec is made by Melissa de Britto under the Apache 2.0 licence. It is universal, so it runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, needs macOS 15 or later, and is signed and notarized by Apple. It needs Screen Recording permission even for audio only, and Microphone permission only when you record from a microphone. There is no telemetry; the only network request is the update check. The window is always dark and does not follow the system appearance. WAV files stop at about 4 GB, roughly six hours, so longer takes need FLAC or M4A. Version 1.1.3 makes long and interrupted recordings safer.

Key Features

Home Rec keeps recording Mac audio to a single click.

• System-wide capture: record audio from any app with ScreenCaptureKit.
• Choose the source: everything, a single app or a microphone.
• Formats: 48 kHz WAV, FLAC up to 24-bit, or 256 kbps M4A.
• Live waveform: level bars in the window and the menu bar popover.
• Menu bar control: record, stop and reveal files without switching windows.
• Background recording: close the window and keep recording.
• Recover Recordings: find and repair takes cut short by a crash or power loss.
• Private: no telemetry, and audio never leaves your Mac.

Home Rec 1.1.3 makes long and interrupted recordings safer, and includes the fixes prepared for 1.1.2.

• A very long WAV recording no longer crashes the app: it now stops cleanly just before the 4 GB limit of the format and saves a playable file
• A recording that has stopped saving, for example because the disk is full, no longer looks as if it is still working
• Quitting while recording now finishes the recording first
• A recording that fails to start no longer leaves an empty file behind
• Recover Recordings protects takes while they start and finish
• Updates wait until Home Rec runs from a writable location