YouCam

A native Mac camera overlay and screen recorder. A floating camera without a window frame, with selectable cameras, shapes, and microphone input.

Build and run

Requires macOS 14+ and Xcode Command Line Tools with Swift 6. No external dependencies.

make
open build/YouCam.app

You can copy build/YouCam.app into Applications. Grant camera, microphone, and screen recording permissions when prompted.

Right-click the camera or use the menu bar icon for controls. Drag to move it; scroll to resize. Choose a circle, square, or rectangle.
Recording Area → Select Area… selects a region. Drag its corner dots to adjust it before recording, or choose Whole Screen. Your area choice is remembered.
Start Recording, Pause / Resume, and Stop Recording control capture. Movies save automatically to ~/Desktop/YouCam-Recording-<date>-<time>.mov.
Audio Input selects a microphone and provides a gain slider and live level meter. System/app audio is not recorded.
Show Recording Panel opens optional controls. Hide Camera lets you record just the screen. The panel and area guides stay out of YouCam's recordings.

Global shortcuts: Control–Option–Command–R starts/stops; Control–Option–Command–P pauses/resumes.

Run checks with make test and make smoke-test.