Beamo
Screen recording with no limits.
The question I was chasing
Could I build the screen recorder I actually wanted: unlimited, no watermark, nothing leaving the machine, and personal enough to stand out in a corporate SaaS world?
I record a lot of product walkthroughs and every tool made me give something up. QuickTime has no webcam overlay. Loom puts the file in someone else's cloud behind a monthly fee. OBS asks me to build a studio before I can press record.
Beamo is not an AI product. It is a native Mac app. I set out to bring it to life with AI engineering and modern tooling, Claude Code and Codex among them, so the idea for how recording should feel could ship as a finished thing rather than sit as a brief.
The constraints
Mac only, so the performance could be fine-tuned properly rather than stretched thin across every platform. Recording had to stay local: no cloud, no watermark, no subscription, no time limit.
It also had to feel light enough to forget it is running, with a live preview before you commit. A long take you discover was wrong only at the end is the worst outcome.
The decisions that mattered
Design it to feel personal. Colourful glassmorphic UI, rounded edges and playful styling, so it has character in a corporate SaaS world that usually ships the same functional grey.
Native Swift on Mac only. Screen, window and camera capture talk to the platform directly, which is what lets the performance get fine-tuned. The price of that call is permanent: Beamo will only ever run on a Mac. Claude Code and Codex were the day-to-day engineering stack for that Swift path, used to move the vision into working capture and UI.
Webcam overlays you can shape, size and drag, so a talking-head clip looks composed without ever opening an editor.
Sparkle for automatic updates, so a free app installed outside the App Store can still ship fixes to the people who already have it.
Built with: Swift, Xcode, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Sparkle
Where it landed
It is in beta on macOS, and it records every demo and walkthrough I ship. Unlimited recording, no watermark, no subscription, and the file is mine the moment the take ends.
The recorder is the product. AI engineering is how the idea got built: vision first, Claude Code and Codex as the stack that brought it to life.
Part of the Rolling Waves work archive.