Screen Recorder for Mac [2026]: $0 vs $108/yr

Every Mac already has a screen recorder. QuickTime Player ships with macOS and starts a capture from File, then New Screen Recording, with Control-Command-N as the shortcut, according to Apple’s own QuickTime Player guide and its screen-recording support article. The real question is when that free tool stops being enough, and what each step up costs you.

This comparison covers six options for choosing a screen recorder for Mac in 2026: QuickTime Player, OBS Studio, Screen Studio, CleanShot X, ScreenFlow and Camtasia. Prices, version numbers and macOS minimums were checked against vendor pages and release notes on November 5, 2026. If you record on Windows instead, the separate best screen recorder for PC ranking sorts nine tools by their free limits.

Where sources disagree on a price, the article names both figures and points you to the vendor page. That matters this autumn, because four of the six tools shipped a new version or changed their plans since August. Old reviews will steer you wrong.

The short answer: pick by job, not by feature list

Start with the job. A five-second bug clip, a polished product demo and a two-hour course module need three different tools, and the price gap between them is large. The table below maps six common jobs to a pick. Details and sources follow in the sections after it.

The pattern is simple. Free tools record well but edit little. Mid-priced tools add zoom, cursor effects and backgrounds that make a tutorial look finished without a separate editor. Full editors cost more and pay off only when you cut long videos. Most solo creators need one free tool and at most one paid tool, not three.

Platform matters too. Screen Studio and CleanShot X run on Mac only. OBS Studio and Camtasia also run on Windows, which helps if your team splits across both systems. QuickTime Player exists only on macOS. If you plan to hand project files to a Windows colleague, that single fact removes three of the six options before price even enters the discussion.

Specs side by side

The table below holds only figures confirmed on vendor pages or in two or more current sources as of November 5, 2026. Where a cell says to check the vendor, the figure could not be confirmed from a vendor page, and guessing would be worse than leaving the cell open.

Read the table by the rows that matter to you. If macOS version is your gate, three vendors publish a floor (13.0 or 13.1), so any Mac that runs macOS 13 or newer handles OBS Studio, Screen Studio and CleanShot X. If budget is the gate, the price-model row and the pricing section further down do the work. If editing time is the gate, look at the built-in editing row and be honest about how much you cut.

Three questions that settle it

First, how long is the typical video? Under two minutes points to QuickTime Player, CleanShot X or Screen Studio. Over ten minutes points to an editor with a real timeline. Second, how often do you publish? A monthly recorder can live on free tools, while a weekly one repays a subscription quickly. Third, who else touches the files? A solo Mac creator has every option open, and a mixed team does not.

Answer those three and the list shrinks to one or two names in under a minute. The rest of this article exists to check that shortlist against prices, versions and known problems, because those details change faster than the broad feature sets do.

What changed on the Mac in the last three months

Four of the six tools moved between August and early November 2026. Reading old reviews is the fastest way to buy the wrong thing, so here is the short change log, each item tied to where it was reported.

OBS forum staff stated that OBS Studio 33.0 was released in late October 2026, and 33.0.1 followed. A GitHub release listing dates 33.0.1 to October 29, according to a single result, while a software-database page puts the same version at October 30, so the sources disagree. The 33.0 release reportedly brought an updated Chromium Embedded Framework for browser sources, a redesigned plugin-loading architecture, improved source snapping and UI cleanups. An experimental NVENC path for Arm64 builds targets Windows hardware, not Apple silicon Macs.

Screen Studio 4 is the current major version. One changelog summary reports a teleprompter in the Mac notch and audible typing in September, whole-picture filters on September 25 and microphone noise reduction on September 30. A secondary listing also credits version 4 with local webcam-background removal, a magnifier zoom and local upscaling. That comes from a single page, so treat the feature list as unconfirmed until you read Screen Studio’s own changelog.

The bigger platform story is Apple’s. One current result says macOS 26 is the final release supporting Intel-based Macs and Rosetta, with macOS 27 limited to Apple silicon. If you still record on an Intel Mac, your tools will keep running for now, but vendors will stop testing against your hardware sooner than you expect. Plan that replacement cycle separately from the software choice.

For wider context on recording workflows beyond the Mac, the site’s OBS and screen recording guides collect the encoder, capture and recorder comparisons in one place.

QuickTime Player: the free recorder already on your Mac

QuickTime Player is the baseline every paid tool has to beat. Apple’s support article still calls it QuickTime Player and tells you to open it from Applications, then choose File, then New Screen Recording. The Control-Command-N shortcut starts the same flow. Apple published updated screen-recording documentation in September 2026, which confirms the app remains supported and is no legacy leftover.

It also edits, a little. Apple’s current QuickTime Player guide documents basic movie editing, including trimming and splitting clips. That covers the most common fix, chopping the dead time from the start and end of a take. It does not cover zoom, cursor smoothing, captions, backgrounds or multiple tracks.

QuickTime Player is an Apple system application, not a separately priced product, and no standalone Mac App Store listing or subscription tier was found for it. That is the whole pricing story: nothing to buy, nothing to renew. The cost is your own editing time later.

Where QuickTime Player stops

• No live scenes. You cannot switch between a webcam layout and a full-screen layout mid-recording.
• No post-recording zoom. What you recorded is what you get, so your mouse movement has to be tidy on the first take.
• No cloud link. You export a file and upload it yourself.
• Editing is limited to trim and split. Anything more means a second app.

Pair QuickTime Player with a free editor and you have a zero-cost pipeline that handles many tutorials. Creators who publish weekly usually outgrow it for one reason only: time. Cutting out mouse wandering by hand costs minutes per video, and a zoom-focused recorder removes those minutes. Whether that is worth $108 a year depends on how many videos you ship, a point the pricing section returns to.

A practical tip for anyone staying with QuickTime Player: record at the resolution you plan to publish, keep your desktop clean, and silence notifications first. A recorder that adds no polish demands more discipline during capture. That discipline is free, and it carries over to every other tool on this list.

OBS Studio on Mac: free, powerful, and fiddly

OBS Studio is the answer when you need more than a single capture: a webcam over a screen, a browser source with live data, or several audio tracks you can mix after the fact. The project lists macOS 13.0 or newer as the Mac requirement on its download page. Current listings describe the app as free and open source, and no rename, sale or retirement has been reported.

OBS records to a file and does nothing else with it. There is no timeline, no zoom, no captions. That is a feature, not a flaw, because the app does one job and does it flexibly. If you want to see how OBS stacks up against Windows-centred recorders, the site’s comparison of OBS against ShadowPlay and Medal covers the encoder side. On a Mac the main trade-off is simpler: OBS gives you the most control and the least hand-holding.

The 33.0.1 capture reports

Between October 29 and November 4, 2026, users on the official OBS forum reported screen-capture problems on macOS after updating to 33.0.1, including blank capture output. Some said they went back to an older release as a workaround. These are user reports, not a confirmed defect from the project, so treat them as a prompt to test, not a reason to avoid the app.

If you see a black capture, work through the usual order. First confirm that OBS has Screen Recording permission under macOS System Settings, then Privacy and Security. Quit and reopen OBS after changing it. Next, test a short recording to a local folder before any real session. If the problem persists, the forum reports point to 32.2.2 as the version users fell back on. Keep the installer for the version that worked, because older builds are not always easy to find later.

One more 33.x detail affects anyone with plugins. The official download page notes that changes to plugin loading locations affect third-party plugins until OBS Studio 34.0. After upgrading from 32.x, reinstall or relocate plugins instead of assuming they carried over.

OBS suits creators who stream and record from the same setup, who want separate audio tracks, or who must record on a budget of exactly zero. It suits tutorial makers less, because every zoom and highlight has to be added in another editor afterward. Many Mac creators run OBS for capture and a separate editor for polish, and that two-tool route costs nothing until you choose a paid editor.

Screen Studio 4: auto zoom and the subscription question

Screen Studio is the tool Mac creators reach for when the goal is a demo that looks edited the moment recording stops. It is a Mac-only screen recorder, and it recommends macOS 13.1 or later. Its pricing page, as reported in coverage dated October and November 2026, lists two plans with every feature included: $29 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly, which works out to $108 a year.

Both plans include up to 4K at 60 fps export, a cloud transcript, project sharing and new features as they ship. Students and educators get 40% off. A one-time licence is no longer available to new buyers, though existing perpetual-licence holders reportedly keep theirs. The annual plan is advertised as saving 69% against monthly billing, and the arithmetic checks out: twelve months at $29 is $348, and $108 is $240 less.

One conflicting figure is worth flagging. A separate result lists $20 a month. It disagrees with the more specific November 4 pricing report, so this article uses $29 and $108 and suggests you confirm at checkout before paying. Pricing pages change faster than articles do.

Who gets value from the subscription

Screen Studio earns its fee when you publish product demos, social clips or landing-page videos where motion polish affects results. A founder who records one demo a quarter can subscribe monthly for the month needed and cancel. A marketer who ships a demo every week should take the yearly plan, since the break-even against monthly billing falls after roughly four months ($108 divided by $29 is just under four).

It is a worse fit if you cut long videos with voiceover across many scenes. A zoom-focused editor is built around the cursor, not the timeline. For hour-long courses, ScreenFlow or Camtasia handle layers, captions and audio repair more directly.

One caution applies to every subscription recorder. When the subscription ends, check what happens to projects stored in the app. Export finished videos, and keep the raw recordings where you can reach them. A $108 line item is easy to cancel. A folder of projects you can no longer open is harder to explain to a client.

CleanShot X 5.0: from screenshots to Studio Mode

CleanShot X began as the screenshot app many Mac users install first. Its 5.0 update changed the pitch.

CleanShot’s own FAQ confirms the headline: CleanShot 5.0 introduced Studio Mode, which lets you add animated zooms to specific parts of a screen recording with smooth motion blur. The official pricing page lists macOS 13.0 or newer as the requirement, an optional renewal at $19 per year, and a 30% educational discount with a university-issued email address.

The base price is where sources split. One comparison reports a $29 one-time licence that includes one year of updates and 1 GB of cloud storage. Another reports a $35 Basic purchase plus a Pro plan from $10 per user per month. Since the pricing page itself is the authority, check it before you buy. Either way, the licence is a one-time purchase and renewal is optional, which sets CleanShot apart from the two subscription-first tools on this list.

Releases kept coming after 5.0. A single result lists 5.0.1 in September and 5.0.2 on October 26, 2026, with fixes for recording that stopped unexpectedly and for text capture on a newer macOS. If you depend on it for client work, update, but test a recording the same day.

CleanShot X fits support teams, technical writers and developers who record dozens of short clips a week and share them as links. Its weak spot is length: it is a capture tool that grew an editor, not an editor built for long projects. Pair it with a real timeline editor if your videos pass a few minutes.

ScreenFlow: the Mac-only editor with a perpetual licence

ScreenFlow is Telestream’s Mac recorder and multitrack editor. Telestream’s 2026 support documentation still uses the ScreenFlow name, and a current third-party result states it is sold only for Mac. Documentation confirms perpetual licences alongside subscriptions and Support Plans, and says an active Support Plan or subscription is required to contact Telestream’s support team.

One comparison, last verified October 17, 2026, lists ScreenFlow at $199 one-time for the Mac app, with a Stock Media Library and Premium Support as optional paid add-ons. Another reports add-on prices of $99 a year for Stock Media and $59 a year for Premium Support, and both sources tell you to confirm on Telestream’s own store. Treat those as reported numbers, not confirmed ones.

A detail that matters for sharpness: Telestream’s documentation says that starting with ScreenFlow 10.5, new documents use the logical display resolution reported by macOS, not the underlying pixel resolution. On a Retina Mac, that changes the size of the canvas you start from. If your tutorials looked softer after an upgrade, that setting is the first place to look.

The newest ScreenFlow version and its release date could not be confirmed from a Telestream page this week, so the spec table leaves that cell for you to check. That is a gap in the sources, not a sign the product is stale. No sale, retirement or rename was reported during the period reviewed.

ScreenFlow suits people who want to pay once and own an editor that handles layered tutorials, callouts and audio on a timeline. It is the sensible middle ground between QuickTime-plus-free-editor and a subscription suite. The catch is that support access depends on a plan, so budget for that if you rely on vendor help.

Camtasia: free editor, watermarked exports, four plans

Camtasia is TechSmith’s screen recorder and editor for Mac and Windows. Current TechSmith material describes the editor as usable with no stated time limit in free mode, with exported videos carrying a watermark until you move to a paid plan. A Camtasia licence is valid on two devices for the same user, according to the same documentation.

TechSmith’s support pages document four individual subscription levels, described in its plan upgrade article: Camtasia Starter, Essentials, Create and Pro. Starter bundles Snagit Individual with the Camtasia Editor, and its editor exports with a watermark. Essentials adds screen recording, nonlinear editing and captioning. Create adds unlimited text-based video editing, AI-generated scripts and audio cleanup. Pro adds text-based audio editing, speech-to-text, video localization, avatars and a large asset library.

One comparison reports yearly prices of $39 for Starter, $179.88 for Essentials, $249 for Create, $599 for Pro and $198 per user for Business. That figure set comes from a single source, so confirm it on TechSmith’s own pricing page. Two structural points are less firm but worth knowing. The older Legacy subscription model is reportedly closed to new customers, and one TechSmith note from October 2026 said the company expected a brand change around the end of November, possibly later. If you buy this month, ask whether the name on your invoice will change.

TechSmith also promotes a browser-based Camtasia Online recorder that captures screen, camera and microphone for free, and said it was adding ElevenLabs premium voices to eligible Create and Pro subscriptions. The current generation is v25, and TechSmith has pointed to a free update that expands Audiate features such as transcription and text-based editing.

Camtasia makes sense for course creators and training teams who need captions, voice tools and a familiar timeline. It makes less sense for someone who only wants a clean 90-second demo, since you would pay for editing depth you will not use. For that job, either Screen Studio or CleanShot X costs less over a year.

Pricing compared: what each option costs over three years

Pricing is where the six tools diverge most. The table shows what each vendor charges, using only figures confirmed on a vendor page or in two or more current sources. Cells marked Check mean a price conflict or a missing vendor page, not a free product.

Three-year cost, worked out

Screen Studio on the yearly plan costs $108 a year, so $324 over three years. On the monthly plan it is $29 for 36 months, or $1,044. CleanShot X costs one licence plus two optional renewals if you want updates every year: $29 + $19 + $19 = $67, or $35 + $19 + $19 = $73 if the higher price is right. QuickTime Player and OBS Studio cost $0 in every year.

For the two tools with unconfirmed list prices, the reported figures give a rough scale. A $199 ScreenFlow licence is $199 over three years before any support plan. Camtasia Essentials at a reported $179.88 a year is about $540 over three years. Those numbers come from single sources and need rechecking, but the order of magnitude is the point: the full editors cost several times what the zoom-first recorders cost.

The cheapest sensible stack is QuickTime Player or OBS for capture and a free editor for cutting. The next step up, at roughly $22 to $24 a year averaged over three years, is CleanShot X. Screen Studio costs about four to five times as much per year as that average, so buy it because auto zoom saves you real editing hours, not because the demo looked good on its homepage.

Render settings and what the evidence actually shows

Resolution and frame rate decide file size and sharpness more than the recorder brand does. The table gives starting points for common outputs. They are working recommendations, not vendor claims, so adjust them to your display and your platform.

Screen Studio’s documented ceiling is 4K at 60 fps. That is the only export limit among the six that sources confirm, so if you need 4K/60 and want a documented guarantee, it is the one to check first. The others do not state a ceiling in the pages reviewed, which does not mean they are capped, only that no number can be cited.

Retina displays add a trap. Telestream notes that ScreenFlow 10.5 changed how new documents represent them, using logical resolution. If you compare recordings from two apps and one looks soft, check whether each captured logical or pixel resolution before blaming the codec.

From the Vipid archive: if your tutorials need a short animated opener before the screen capture, the animated logo intro theme shows a branded sting you can place ahead of any of these exports.

Mac setup checklist before you press record

1. Grant permissions. Screen Recording, Microphone and Camera access live in System Settings under Privacy and Security. Each app needs its own entry, and most need a restart after you change it.
2. Silence the desktop. Turn on a Focus mode, hide the Dock if it covers your content, and clear stray notifications.
3. Pick one resolution. Record at the size you will publish. Scaling a Retina capture down later costs sharpness and time.
4. Test audio first. Record ten seconds, play it back with headphones, and check levels before the real take.
5. Check free disk space. Long captures at high quality fill a drive faster than most people expect.
6. Name the output folder. A dedicated folder per project makes migration between tools far easier later.

The three kinds of evidence behind this comparison

No independent lab publishes comparable CPU load, battery drain or dropped-frame numbers for these six Mac recorders that could be verified. What exists is of three kinds. Vendor specs give macOS minimums and export ceilings, such as Screen Studio’s 4K/60. Release notes and documentation show what shipped and what changed, such as OBS 33.0’s plugin-loading redesign and ScreenFlow 10.5’s Retina handling. Reviews and user reports show where reality differs, such as the Digital Trends write-up of CleanShot 5.0 and the OBS forum threads on blank macOS capture.

Weighted honestly, that evidence supports ranking by price, platform fit and editing depth, but not by raw speed. If you need a speed answer, record the same two-minute session in each trial and compare file size and fan noise yourself. Ten minutes of testing beats any number a vendor prints on a homepage.

Real-world examples and what Mac creators say

Three documented cases come first, then four setups that follow from the specs. The documented cases are real: a published review, a set of forum reports and vendor documentation. The setups are scenarios, not customer case studies.

1. OBS 33.0.1 capture reports. Mac users on the official forum reported blank capture after the update between October 29 and November 4, 2026, and some reverted to 32.2.2.
2. ScreenFlow 10.5 Retina change. Telestream’s documentation says that starting with 10.5, new documents use the logical display resolution reported by macOS, a change that affects how sharp a Retina recording looks.
3. Scenario: a weekly SaaS demo. A marketer publishing one 90-second demo each week needs zooms without editing time. Screen Studio’s yearly plan at $108 averages about $2 a week.
4. Scenario: a teacher recording lessons. A teacher qualifies for 40% off Screen Studio or 30% off CleanShot X, but QuickTime Player plus trim and split may already be enough.
5. Scenario: a support team. A team sending dozens of short clips as links benefits from CleanShot Cloud and the one-time licence.
6. Scenario: a streamer who also teaches. One person streaming and recording tutorials runs OBS Studio for both and cuts in a separate editor.

The weekly demo case shows why cost per video beats list price. Ninety-two seconds of footage that needs six zooms takes a long time to hand-edit in a general editor, and a zoom-first tool does the same work in the recording step. At 52 videos a year the $108 plan works out to a small cost per video. At four videos a year the same plan costs far more per video, and a one-time tool wins.

The teacher case turns on discounts and habits. Both zoom-first tools offer education pricing, but the cheapest route is the one already on the laptop. Many instructors record a lesson in one take, trim the ends and upload, and QuickTime Player handles all three steps without a login.

What the quotes cover

Justin Brown, founder of Primal Video, compares Mac screen-recording tools in a YouTube tutorial that covers ScreenFlow, QuickTime, OBS and Camtasia. The quote file does not give the video’s publication year, so read his views as older opinion, not a 2026 verdict. Three lines stand out.

• On QuickTime, Brown says: “Then you’ve already got Quicktime installed on your system, and it actually has a pretty powerful screen recording functional capabilities built in.”
• On ScreenFlow, he calls it the “best bang for buck solution, and that is ScreenFlow.”
• He also says of ScreenFlow: “it is the most robust, most solid solution for screen capture and for editing screen captures on Mac in my opinion.”

Two things follow. His first point still holds, since Apple’s documentation confirms QuickTime Player remains supported for screen recording. His ScreenFlow praise predates Screen Studio 4 and CleanShot 5.0, so it says nothing about how those compare. Use the quotes as a starting opinion, not as proof.

Use-case recommendations

Six common jobs, each with a pick, a runner-up and the reason. The picks follow the pricing and feature data above, so if a price changes, revisit the call.

Zero budget. Start with QuickTime Player. If you hit a limit it cannot handle, move to OBS Studio before paying for anything. Most people discover which limit they actually hit within a month, and that tells you which paid tool to try.

Polished demos. Screen Studio is built for this and documents 4K/60 export. Take the yearly plan if you ship monthly or more often, and the monthly plan only for one-off projects.

Quick shares. CleanShot X wins on cost over three years, at $67 to $73 against $324. It also covers screenshots, which most documentation work needs anyway.

Streaming and recording. OBS Studio is the only option here with live scenes. Pair it with an editor if you publish edited videos. For titles and intros on those videos, the Vipid intro themes list resolution, length and frame rate for each theme, which helps match your export settings.

Long courses. ScreenFlow suits a one-time purchase budget. Camtasia suits teams who want captions, AI tools and a plan structure that scales to business licences.

Mixed teams. If a Windows colleague must open the project, only OBS Studio and Camtasia are cross-platform among the six. Everything else locks projects to the Mac.

Migration guide: switching recorders without losing work

Switching is cheap if you plan it and painful if you do not. The common moves are QuickTime Player to OBS Studio, a Screen Studio subscription to a one-time tool, and a Legacy Camtasia plan to a current tier. The steps below work for all three.

1. Check your macOS version. OBS Studio and CleanShot X need macOS 13.0, and Screen Studio recommends 13.1. An older system rules these out before you spend anything.
2. Export finished videos first. Save MP4 masters of everything you have published, so a cancelled subscription never holds your work hostage.
3. Keep the raw recordings. Project files from one app rarely open in another, but the original capture usually does.
4. Run a trial recording in the new tool. Record the same two-minute workflow you always make and compare sharpness, audio levels and file size.
5. Rebuild your presets. Recreate your hotkeys, audio inputs and output folder before the first real session.
6. Cancel after the first successful project. Do not cancel the old tool until a full video has gone from capture to upload in the new one.

Moving off a Screen Studio subscription

New one-time licences are no longer offered, and existing perpetual holders reportedly keep theirs, so if you hold one, do not cancel anything you do not need to. If you pay $108 a year and want to stop, CleanShot X is the closest feature match for zoom-style editing at a fraction of the recurring cost, and its 5.0 release added Studio Mode for that purpose. Expect a different look and different controls, so budget an afternoon to relearn your workflow.

Moving from QuickTime Player to OBS Studio

Install OBS, grant Screen Recording permission, build one scene with a display capture, and set the output to a folder you will find again. Record a ten-second test and play it back. If capture is blank, see the 33.0.1 notes above and consider the 32.2.2 fallback that forum users described. Keep QuickTime Player for the days you need a clip in thirty seconds.

Pros, cons and the verdict

The verdict. For most people searching for a screen recorder for Mac, QuickTime Player is the right first answer, because it costs $0 and Apple still documents it. Move to OBS Studio if you need scenes or a webcam. Pay for CleanShot X if your recordings are short and shared often, since its reported three-year cost of $67 to $73 is under a quarter of Screen Studio’s $324 on the yearly plan.

Buy Screen Studio when zoom polish is the product of your video, such as demos and launch clips, and when you ship often enough to use it. Choose ScreenFlow or Camtasia only when you cut long videos, and pick between them on platform: ScreenFlow if you stay on Mac and want to pay once, Camtasia if a Windows machine is in the mix. One caveat covers every pick: prices and plan names moved this autumn, so confirm on the vendor page before you pay.

Common questions

What is the best free screen recorder for Mac in 2026?

QuickTime Player is the best free option for quick clips, since it is built into macOS and Apple still documents it. OBS Studio is the best free option when you need scenes, a webcam overlay or several audio sources, though it has no editor.

How do I start a screen recording on a Mac without installing anything?

Open QuickTime Player from Applications, choose File, then New Screen Recording. The Control-Command-N shortcut starts the same flow, according to Apple’s support documentation.

How much does Screen Studio cost in 2026?

Screen Studio’s pricing page lists $29 a month or $9 a month billed yearly, which is $108 a year. Students and educators get 40% off, and a one-time licence is no longer offered to new buyers. Check the live page before paying, because one third-party result lists a conflicting $20 monthly figure.

Is CleanShot X a one-time purchase?

Yes, the app is a one-time licence with an optional renewal at $19 per year for further updates. The base price is reported at $29 in one comparison and $35 in another, so confirm it on CleanShot’s pricing page.

Is Camtasia free on Mac?

The editor can be used free with no stated time limit, but exported videos carry a watermark until you move to a paid plan. TechSmith documents Starter, Essentials, Create and Pro tiers, so check its pricing page for current costs.

Why is OBS showing a black screen on my Mac?

First confirm that OBS has Screen Recording permission in macOS System Settings under Privacy and Security, then restart OBS. Forum users also reported blank capture after updating to 33.0.1 and went back to 32.2.2, though the project has not confirmed a defect.

Will my screen recorder keep working on future macOS versions?

One current result says Apple describes macOS 26 as the final release supporting Intel-based Macs, with macOS 27 limited to Apple silicon. Current vendors publish minimums of macOS 13.0 or 13.1 for OBS Studio, CleanShot X and Screen Studio. Check each vendor’s page before you upgrade your system.

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