The Mac App Store edition
DemoTake Studio is the Mac App Store edition, coming soon. It records, edits and exports like DemoTake Agent, inside the App Sandbox, with purchases through the App Store. Here is what differs and how both editions share a Mac.
DemoTake Studio is coming to the Mac App Store. It is the same recorder and editor as DemoTake Agent, built for the App Sandbox and bought and updated through Apple. Until it's live there, download DemoTake Agent to get started.
What Studio does, and what it doesn't
The sandbox means one thing changes: DemoTake Studio can't operate other apps. It doesn't click or type in your app for you, and it never asks for Accessibility. Everything else is there.
| DemoTake Agent | DemoTake Studio | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you get it | Direct download from demotake.my | Mac App Store |
| Record windows scene by scene, retakes | Yes | Yes |
| Editor, AI command bar, every export, Reviewer Packs | Yes | Yes |
| Share links, sync with DemoTake Web | Yes, with a plan | Yes, with a plan |
| MCP control of DemoTake | Yes | Yes |
| Your agent operates your app | Yes, any Mac app through Accessibility | With your agent's own computer-use tools |
| How you buy it | License key or subscription | App Store purchases, or a subscription you sign in with |
| Free trial | 3 days from first launch | 3 days from the free 3-day Trial purchase |
| Updates | Built-in update check | The Mac App Store |
Bring your own computer-use agent
With Studio, your agent still controls DemoTake over MCP: it creates the take, starts each scene, checks results and exports. To act in your app, it uses its own computer-use tools. After each meaningful action it reports what it did with take_log_event, so DemoTake can place the presentation pointer, zoom and edit around the right moment.
- Your agent asks DemoTake to click and type
- Works in the background through Accessibility
- One MCP server does both
- Your agent clicks with its own computer-use tools
- It reports each step with take_log_event
- DemoTake records, edits and exports
Or skip the agent and record by hand. Nothing about recording yourself is different in Studio. See Connect your agent.
Buying in the App Store
Studio sells everything through the App Store, at the same prices as everywhere else. Settings › Plans has one place to buy: the free trial (until you start it), then Buy Once and Subscribe (monthly or yearly), with the subscription terms shown underneath. The Update Pass and Restore Purchases sit below, under Other Purchases.
| In-app purchase | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 3-day Trial | Free | Starts your 3-day trial. No subscription starts when it ends |
| DemoTake Studio (buy once) | $129 | Local: DemoTake Studio is yours forever, with 12 months of updates |
| Update Pass (12 months) | $39 | Extends updates by a year. Available once you own DemoTake Studio |
| Director, monthly | $19 per month | Everything, everywhere: both Mac editions, DemoTake Web and the cloud |
| Director, yearly | $159 per year | The same, billed yearly |
Restore Purchases (under Other Purchases) brings back what you bought on another Mac with the same Apple Account. Subscriptions bought in the App Store are managed there: Manage Subscription opens your App Store subscriptions.
App Store purchases are made from Apple under Apple's terms, so refunds come from Apple too: ask at reportaproblem.apple.com. We can't issue refunds for App Store purchases.
What unlocks Studio
- An App Store purchase: DemoTake Studio (buy once) or Director.
- A subscription bought on the web: Director, Team or Enterprise. Sign in to DemoTake Cloud in Settings › Account with your email and the six-digit code it sends you, and your plan unlocks Studio.
- Not a Local license from demotake.my. Buying Local once gets you the edition you bought, and on the web that is DemoTake Agent. Its license key doesn't unlock Studio.
Team and Enterprise aren't sold inside Studio. If your company has one, sign in and it works.
Signing in for DemoTake Web and the cloud
App Store purchases live with your Apple Account. To use DemoTake Web, sync, share links and hosted DemoTake AI with a Director subscription from the App Store, sign in to DemoTake Cloud in Settings › Account: enter your email, click Send Sign-In Code, enter the six-digit code from the email (it expires in five minutes) and click Sign In. No account yet? The same steps create one. That links the purchase to your DemoTake account. After that, Open DemoTake Web appears in the sidebar and your subscription works in the browser too.
A DemoTake Cloud account is optional. Recording, editing and exporting on your Mac work without one.
To delete your DemoTake Cloud account, use Delete Account in Settings › Account; see Local and subscriptions. Deleting it doesn't cancel an App Store subscription: cancel that in your App Store account settings.
Both editions on one Mac
You can install DemoTake Agent and DemoTake Studio side by side. They are separate apps as far as macOS is concerned:
- Permissions. Each edition asks for Screen Recording, Microphone and Camera on its own. Allowing one doesn't allow the other.
- Keychain. Each keeps its own Keychain items: sign-in, license and trial, and your AI provider key. Neither reads the other's, and you sign in to each separately.
- Library. Both use
~/Movies/DemoTake, so your takes show up in both. - MCP. Both prefer
127.0.0.1:47823. When both run, the second one takes the next free port and writes its own connection details. Your agent connects to whichever edition its setup names; Settings › Agents in each edition shows the right setup.
Using both? Record with either, and the take is in the same library. Just make sure your agent's MCP setup points at the edition you want it to drive.