Open source · macOS app · MIT license

Write the scenario. Get the product video.

Retake plays your web app from a YAML scenario, films it headless with the cursor drawn in the page, and edits the take into a finished video in your theme. Its MCP server lets your AI agents write the scenario and run it all.

Download for macOS View the source

brew install --cask bramvanosta/tap/retake

macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon
Linux: from the source
MCP server included

1 You write the scenario

projects/shop/import.yamlscenes: - id: import caption: Import in seconds. steps: - click: {text: New import} - drop_file: {name: prices.xlsx} - click: {text: Start import} - wait_for: {text: 921 offers}

2 Retake films it, headless

console · /importsRECImportsNew importSpring list.xlsx412 offersRoasters.csv86 offersNew importprices.xlsxStart import921 offers created

3 It edits the video

Waiting for the takeImport in seconds.introimportoutroimport-v1.mp4 · 1920×1080 reviewed clean

How it works

From a few lines of YAML to a finished video

One take, one timeline of every step, and an editor that reads it: no cursor added afterwards, no zoom guessed from a timestamp.

1Script
Describe the video in YAML
Scenes, steps (click, type, select, scroll, drop_file…), captions and edit hints. retake validate checks it, with line and column, before anything runs.
2Shoot
A headless take, cursor in the page
Chromium plays the whole scenario at any virtual resolution, with the cursor drawn inside the page: clicks and the screen’s reactions are in sync by construction. It does not take over your screen.
3Edit
Edited for you, in your theme
The capture and its timeline of every step become a video: browser, laptop or phone frames, captions, intro and outro, cards, zooms keyed to the action. Every piece is a Remotion component your theme styles.
4Review
Checked before anyone sees it
Contact sheets, key frames and checks, for you or your agent, and comments pinned to a frame of the render.
5Export
Ready to deliver
MP4 up to 4K, vertical and square versions reframed on the action, a music bed, or the raw clips with FCPXML, EDL or OTIO markers for an editor.

A closer look

The Studio: Script, Shoot, Edit, Review

One window for every scenario: its blocks, its takes, its timeline, and its review with the frame comments.

Retake's Studio on a scenario in Script mode: its scenes on the left, each step as a frame of the latest capture, and the selected step's form on the right

The Edit screen: the take's player above its timeline of segments, captions, steps, camera, speed, markers and comments, with the layout and theme switches on the right — Edit: the take on a timeline. Switch a layout or a theme, and only the edit changes.

The Review screen of a render: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notes, then its contact sheets and key frames — Review: the render’s checks, contact sheets and key frames.

Made with Retake

Frames from a finished video

Retake filmed and edited Northfield, the invented coffee wholesale platform its repository ships to film: captions, cards, overlays and what the product sent along the way.

A coffee's product page in a card layout, a caption below it, and the supplier's web notification of a new quote request overlaid at the top right — The web notification the product sent, captured and overlaid.

The roaster's proposal page, with a callout on its total of €720.00 including VAT — A callout on the total, keyed to the step that shows it.

The quotation PDF the product generated, shown as a document card beside the line: a real PDF, ready to share with your team — The PDF the product generated, as a document card.

Why Retake

Takes you can trust, for any web app

Another look, the same take

Render again with another theme or layout component: no new capture, no change to the scenario.

Data that holds still

Setup hooks prepare the data over HTTP, SQL, shell or in-page JavaScript, with their rollback. A sandbox resets a local copy of the product before every take.

Built for real front-ends

Full-page and single-page navigations, inner scroll containers, popovers of any UI library, shadow DOM, iframes and new tabs.

Signed in, on your computer

Personas sign in once, in a window, and their sessions stay on your computer, outside any project.

Themes from your brand

A theme from your logo, colours and fonts, or a draft read off your site, with its contrast checked.

Your workspace, your files

Projects, themes, components and hooks live in a folder of yours. The tool holds no product and no brand.

The macOS app

One app, everything inside

Retake.app carries its own Node.js, engine, Chromium, ffmpeg, and starter themes. Nothing else to install.

Drag Retake from its disk image to Applications, and open it.
The first run makes your workspace, ~/Retake, or opens a folder you choose.
The Set-up sheet links the retake command and registers the MCP server in your AI client, each only when you click.
Updates are checked at launch. Nothing installs until you click Install and Restart.

Set Up RetakeEvery step is optional.Command line retake, linked from the appInstallAI client the retake MCP serverAdd…Notifications when a job ends out of sightAllow…Done

AI agents

Ask your agent for the video

Retake ships an MCP server. Your agent inspects your product’s pages, writes the scenario itself, then films, renders and reviews it with the same engine as the Studio.

Or show it the flow once, in a window, and it reads the draft.
Hooks that need a human wait for your approval in the client.
Renders run guarded: the project’s files only, no network.
It reads the comments on a frame, changes the video, renders it again and resolves them.
Any MCP client can connect: retake mcp --print-config prints its configuration.

Your agent · MCPMake a one-minute video of the price list import.

page_inspect
scenario_validate
scenario_save
run_capture
render
review

import-v1.mp4 · reviewed clean

Download

The app, or the source

macOS app

For macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon (no Intel build yet). It updates itself, only when you click.

brew install --cask bramvanosta/tap/retake
# or, with the release candidates too:
brew install --cask bramvanosta/tap/retake@beta

Or get the .dmg from the latest release

From the source

macOS or Linux, with Node.js 22 or later, pnpm 10, and ffmpeg 5.1 or later.

git clone https://github.com/Bramvanosta/Retake.git && cd Retake
pnpm install && pnpm build
pnpm --filter @retake/runner-web exec playwright-core install chromium
pnpm retake doctor        # is this machine ready?

Quick start, scenario language and commands, in the README

Retake is under the MIT license. It renders its videos with Remotion, which is not open source: its own license applies to everyone who renders with Retake, free for individuals and for companies of up to three people. The macOS app also carries GPL builds of FFmpeg, each with its notice.

Your next product video is a scenario away

Open source, under the MIT license. A macOS app, a command line, and an MCP server for your AI agents.