Takes for Mac

[Takes: you talk, Takes does the rest]

Record on your Mac or iPhone. Claude Code writes the script,
cuts the edit and drafts the posts.
gettakes.app

[macOS 15+] [iOS 18+] [Swift] [MCP] [License: MIT]

[Storyboard, record and post in Takes]

Takes shows each post the way LinkedIn, X, YouTube or Shorts will show it, so you review the real thing. No coding needed, no account, no usage data: your videos stay in folders on your Mac.

Install

Paste this in Terminal:

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

It installs Takes, ffmpeg and Claude Code, signs you in to Claude and opens Takes. Run it again to update. You can read the script first: it is 85 lines.

How a video goes

1. Storyboard. Ask "storyboard my next video". Claude writes the script and sketches each shot.
2. Record. Read off a teleprompter that follows your voice. Camera and screen record as two synced files. Star the take you keep.
3. Post. Ask "cut my last take" and "write the posts". Review each draft as the platform shows it, leave comments on a frame or a line, and schedule it.

[The same video as a LinkedIn post, an X thread, a YouTube video and a Short]

On your iPhone

[Takes on iPhone: videos, files, storyboard and post]

Your videos, takes, storyboards and posts, from anywhere. Ask Takes from the phone too. Record a take on the phone and it lands in the session on your Mac. The phone reaches your Mac over Tailscale; nothing goes through a server of ours.

To install it you need Xcode and an Apple ID: TAKES_TEAM=<team id> ios/install.sh. With a free Apple ID, install it again every 7 days.

How it works

Your library is plain folders in ~/Movies/Takes. The app records into them, Claude Code reads and writes them through the takes MCP server, and the app updates when a file changes. On its first launch Takes adds the server and two skills (takes-storyboard, takes-video-edit) to Claude Code, so you can also ask from any terminal.

flowchart LR    app["<b>Takes.app</b><br/>record · review"]    lib[("<b>~/Movies/Takes</b><br/>scripts · takes · posts")]    claude["<b>Claude Code</b><br/>chat panel or terminal"]    phone["<b>iPhone</b>"]    app <--> lib    claude -- "takes MCP" --> lib    app -- "starts" --> claude    phone -- "Tailscale" --> app

Good to know

• Needs: a Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 15+ and a Claude plan.
• Optional: whisper for transcripts. A Gemini key for storyboard sketches, B-roll names and best cuts: Settings › Gemini says what it adds and saves it.
• Questions and ideas: Discussions. Takes does not take pull requests, so one person keeps it consistent. Forks are welcome.
• The pictures are the real app on a made-up library.

Support

Takes is free. If it saves you time, you can buy me a coffee:

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