A replay buffer for your screen
Encore quietly keeps the last ten minutes of your screen. When the bug you can never reproduce finally shows up — press one key, and it's a file.
Free · open source · Apple Silicon · everything stays on your machine
The whole interface. That's it.
Why it's different
A rolling buffer holds the last five or ten minutes of your screen — nothing older is ever kept. Start it at login and forget it exists.
The flaky test fails. The UI glitches once in a hundred runs. The thing your bug report can't describe — it just did itself, on camera.
The buffer becomes an MP4 in your library. Trim it, cut the dead air, copy it into the bug report. Done before the adrenaline fades.
Expired segments are deleted as they age out, so an all-day session costs about 250 MB of disk instead of a hard drive.
Library
Replays land in a library, not a downloads folder. Thumbnails, durations, grouped by day — find Tuesday's glitch on Friday without scrubbing filenames.
They're plain MP4 files on disk, so everything works with everything.
Editor
Drag the handles, cut the middle, export. Cuts are lossless — Encore never re-encodes your video, so a ten-minute trim takes about a second and loses zero quality.
MP4, GIF, or straight to the clipboard for your bug tracker.
lossless — no re-encode
No account. No cloud. No telemetry. Replays live in a folder you choose, and deleting one deletes it. And you don't have to take our word for it — every line of code is public. That's the whole privacy policy.
Be recording when it does.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon
Encore isn't notarized by Apple, so macOS will say it "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". That's expected for an unsigned build, not a sign of anything wrong.