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iShowU

76%

111 ratings

Stefan Fischer

Jan 24, 2026

App version: 6.0.24

MacStudio M1 Ultra 128GB Ram OS 15.7.8 with two 32” monitors unfortunately App is usless because as soon as I start it my mouse become uncontrollable and moves quite unpredictably. In comparisson if I use QT screen recording or an app like ScreenFlow I dont have such issues.

Jake Lauer

Nov 3, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

Almost great, but with one glaring issue - the confusion between “canvas size” and “selected area”. As you’d expect, you can select an area on the screen to record. However, unintuitively, the resulting video will be the “canvas size”, which is a completely different dimension that is seemingly unrelated to the selected size. Regardless of the area you intend to record (screen, application, specific area) the output will be the “canvas size” dimension, and it’s totally unclear how to actually set that dimension. It’s been very sporadic for me - sometimes it feels like it’s synced to the selected area, sometimes it is way off. More often than not, it doesn’t even have the same aspect ratio, resulting in stretched videos. If this app can solve that major issue, it’ll become a serious competitor with Screenflow, thanks to its ability to record system sound.

Karl

Sep 25, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

When it works, it's fine decent but I spend as much time fighting against it as I do using it. 1. constantly has the camera light on despite not recording 2. sometimes just records a blank screen or nothing at all. sometimes restarting fixes it. No way to know if it'll work until you've finished your 5min video 3. crashes on load if you have setapp background apps disabled

Iván Fanego

Aug 27, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

No demasiado útil

Rohan Parekh

May 21, 2025

App version: 6.0.22

Although features are excellent, but did not record full screen for my Mac. For some reason, it crops the edge and record only some center area of the screen only

Thomas Philippe Euvrard

Feb 20, 2025

App version: 6.0.21

Great to record yourself.

Belma Ajazi

Jan 22, 2025

App version: 6.0.20

Great App

Jeff

Jan 16, 2026

App version: 6.0.24

Would be nice to keep the Preview window open when recording, so one can quickly change the camera feed from full page to a small image in a corner and be able to move it on the fly.

Response from Developer

Jan 18, 2026

I found that if I enabled that, recording performance really suffered. It's something I need to revisit, to see if anything has changed in later OS versions.

Mathieu Blais D'Amours

Nov 1, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

No real way to capture iPhone screen, or no indication nor article on how to do it.

Robbie Lockie

Sep 19, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

my mac tells me the app is accessing my screen share even when I have not asked it to record. Uninstalled immediatly.

Response from Developer

Sep 21, 2025

that's because it runs a preview constantly, so you can check layout of the preset.

Alan Can Cui

Aug 9, 2025

App version: 6.0.22

Doesn’t work for me. It always says “Starting”.

Response from Developer

Aug 9, 2025

I've just uploaded v6.0.24 which has a number of bug fixes. Please to leave a comment as to how this works out for you. It might be a day or three before it goes live, as it has to go through review.

Donal

Apr 28, 2025

App version: 6.0.22

does the job …cleverly designed for a tricky task … it needs a small (minutes not hours) learning effort (a fraction of what’s demanded by its competitors) … I am also impressed by patience and responsiveness of developer

Björn Großmann

Feb 17, 2025

App version: 6.0.20

I have used iShowU about 10 years ago, at which time it worked like a charm. Now i turned to it again because I needed to record some screen interaction in a browser window for a client of mine. First, I chose to record an application. I selected Chrome. I could see that it recorded all Chrome windows. So I closed everything, except the one small window. Sadly, iShowU recorded my entire screen, which is large, with one small window in it and shrunk everything down to me preselected size of 1024x768px. Ok, I got it, wrong approach. Since I could not figure out how to record only the space occupied by this one window, I search for a while and found that I can just define a certain area of the screen to be recorded. Perfect - that had been how I did it 10 years ago. I started recording. The app crashed about the same second where it started recording. I opened it again and tried again. It crashed again. I believe this will be fixed by iShowU. I am on MacBook Pro, M4 Max, Sequoia 15.3

Response from Developer

Feb 17, 2025

I think I found this bug yesterday and am currently uploading a fix now... the app has to go through SetApp review first, so it might be a few days before you see the fix. For true "single" window, try out pro mode: see https://youtu.be/Ekn5mFidX18?si=CDG-crYcSidi8G7c

rajat patel

Jan 17, 2025

App version: 6.0.20

Been closing constantly. It worked fine for the first few days but facing a lot of trouble now.

Response from Developer

Jan 17, 2025

Please can you send me a screenshot of your settings, to [email protected]? Also, what model mac do you have? I'll try to replicate + fix here

Max Park

Nov 19, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

I hope the developer fixes external monitor change issues. (when I set the target screen as the external monitor and disconnect the screen, the app is not working properly)

Response from Developer

Nov 19, 2025

Thanks. I know about the issue. Still have to figure it out here on my end. Then will post a fixed app. Can you expand a bit of what you’re seeing? Also. If you can email me at [email protected] I’m happy to setup a meet to see what’s up

Josh Fields

Oct 21, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

Bogs down the top-end M3Max Macbook Pro with 128gb ram to the point of unusability just when changing settings! Incredibly unstable. Often won’t record screen at all. Sometimes works fine, but still nearly impossible to change settings.

Brandon

Sep 13, 2025

App version: 6.0.24

DOWNGRADING TO THUMBSDOWN BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT, IT ONLY RECORDS A SMALL PART OF THE SCREEN. Setting to full screen does nothing. Selecting the entire screen does nothing. THIS IS A MASSIVE BUG THAT RENDERS THE APP USELESS.

Response from Developer

Sep 21, 2025

Can you please check preview - does it show the same thing? Please try right clicking on the preview (over the shown screen recording) and choose 'Fit...' from the context menu. I am wondering if the placement of the item has gotten "off" in the composition.

Tomat

May 23, 2025

App version: 6.0.22

Nice and usefull. Thank you. It lacks the feature of adding background to Canvas when capturing a window. But I solved this problem by overlaying two applications.

Richard Greenwood

Apr 17, 2025

App version: 6.0.22

Love this app!

U

Jan 31, 2025

App version: 6.0.20

It won’t even record.