HOW TO: Record Audio and Screen at the same time on a Mac for FREE!

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  • BackgroundMusic

    Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

  • Download Background Music: LINK (free and open-source) Once downloaded, run it and you'll see it as an icon in your menu bar

  • BlackHole

    BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

  • This tip is certainly good, but I prefer to use blackhole in combination with standard quicktime, then compress the video to mp4 without losing quality using handbrake.

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