Always-on session tape · macOS
Session Recorder quietly captures everything coming out of your speakers — the warm-up jam, the talk about the bridge, the accident that becomes the hook. When an idea flies by before anyone hits record, you can scrub back, mark it, and cut it for real.
Free keeps the latest 30 minutes · Pro saves the entire session
Like the session DAT, reborn
Three things every take deserves: a machine that never forgets to record, a way to mark the moment, and the same capture inside your DAW.
A native macOS audio tap records the mix of everything you hear — DAW, reference tracks, calls — with no drivers and no routing. Play back inside Session Recorder while still recording; its own audio is excluded at the OS level, so there's never feedback.
One click — or ⌃⌥⌘M from any app — stamps the moment with real wall-clock time. Add a note when you get a second. Each one lands as a marker on the session waveform, so you jump straight back to the idea.
Pro includes AU and VST3 plugins that sit on the master bus and record the mix sample-accurately — Logic, Live, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One. The same always-on tape, right where you work.
The rolling 30-minute loop
Free doesn't stop after 30 minutes — it records forever, keeping only the most recent half hour on disk, like a loop of tape. The moment something great happens, open Review and it's right there.
Go Pro and the loop lifts: the very same session keeps everything from that moment on. Nothing interrupted, nothing lost — sample-exact.
See what Pro unlocks →Free vs Pro
No subscription, no account. A signed license key delivered by email, good on one Mac at a time — move it to a new one whenever you like.
Free
The always-on safety net
Pro
Introductory price
Keep every session, in full
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Requires macOS 14.4 or later. Start free, upgrade any time — even mid-session.
Questions
Not as a track you can drop into your project — Session Recorder captures the stereo mix of everything you heard, not isolated stems. What it saves is the idea: how the part went, the arrangement, the words, the feel. Hear it again, then record it properly. That's the honest deal, and it's saved more songs than it sounds like.
No — it records forever. It just keeps only the most recent 30 minutes on disk, like a loop of tape. The moment something great happens, open Review and it's there.
Activation applies instantly: the rolling window lifts and the very same session keeps everything from that moment on. Nothing is interrupted, nothing is lost.
No account, ever. Activating Pro checks in online once to register your Mac (one per license); after that it runs offline. Buy once, paste the key, done.
Nothing. Your files are ordinary WAV/M4A files in your Music folder and are never touched, hidden, or re-encoded by licensing changes.
Yes — switch the source in Settings to Interface Input, pick your interface and the input pair fed by the console's two-track out, and hit record. Nothing needs to play through the Mac: it's the modern session DAT, sitting quietly at the end of the desk.
The whole engine was built for real-time discipline: measured at roughly 2% of one CPU core sustained while recording, with a lock-free path between the audio thread and disk. Four-hour endurance runs ship with zero dropped samples.
Never lose the moment again
Download free and keep the last 30 minutes rolling today. Go Pro when you're ready to keep it all — $49 introductory price, one time.
Session Recorder