Reverie — the recorder that keeps the master

The whole argument

Your video never passes through us.

Every other recorder puts a server in the middle. That is where the transcode happens, that is where the file sits, and that is why the free tier stops at five minutes and twenty-five videos — storage is a bill someone has to pay.

Reverie writes to your disk and uploads to your Drive. There is no middle. Length and count cost us nothing, so we do not charge for them.

Your machine

The take is written straight to ~/Movies/Reverie while it records. It exists on your disk before anything else happens.

Your Drive

The share copy uploads directly from your machine to your own Google Drive, over your own connection. Resumable, so dropped wifi does not cost you the take.

Our servers

Not in the path. No transcode, no thumbnail pass, no temporary copy. Nothing to breach and nothing to bill you for.

Your link

Reverie hands you Google's own share link and steps out of the way. Your viewer lands on Google's page; we are not in the delivery path. Revoke access in Drive and the link dies.

What it does

Three moves, no menus.

The live preview is the interface. No scenes, no sources, no encoder tab — none of the things you have to learn before OBS will record once.

Capture

Screen and you

Any display, or an area you draw yourself. Your mic, and a camera inset you can move, resize and reshape — rectangle or bubble — baked into the take.

1080p60 · custom region · multi-display

Polish

Trim and frame

Cut the fumbles off either end. Drop the recording onto a styled backdrop with rounded corners and real depth, so a raw grab looks composed.

Trim · backdrops · radius · shadow

Send

One link, your cloud

Uploads to a Reverie folder in your Drive, then copies the share link. The file sits in your account — move it, delete it, keep it forever.

drive.file scope · resumable upload

See it work

Five things it does, doing them.

Drawing a region

REC 00:00

01 · Capture

Draw a region

Box off the part that matters. The rest of your desktop stays out of the take.

Trimming 4:12 to 2:48

00:00Keeping 2:4804:12

02 · Trim

Cut both ends

Pull the handles in. The master on your disk is never touched.

Restyling live

Bubble · tightRectangle · roomy Left · edge to edge

03 · Frame

Wrap it

Backdrop, padding, radius, camera position. The preview is what exports.

Quality, moving

Ready to share4:12

Share copy 1080p · 157 MB · about a minute

Your original, kept on disk 1080p60 high · 461 MB

STANDARD

HIGH

04 · Size

See both numbers

Move the quality and both figures update. The choice is free.

Upload, interrupted

Quarterly review157 MB

Your Drive · /Reverie drive.file scope · nothing else visible to us

Uploading to your Drive Connection lost — holding at 91 MB Back online. Resumed from 91 MB Done. Link copied to your clipboard

05 · Send

Into your Drive

Lose the wifi and it resumes at the same byte. No partial files, ever.

What that buys you

Four numbers that do not move.

Not promises — consequences of where the file lives.

∞

Minutes per recording. There is no five-minute wall, on any tier.

∞

Recordings kept. Your Drive sets the ceiling, not us.

Bytes of your video on our servers on the free tier. Nothing, ever, for transcoding.

Permission we ask Google for — files Reverie itself created. Nothing else.

Specifications

Built like a tool, not a tab.

A native macOS app. It records while your connection is down, and it never stops mid-take because something of ours is unreachable.

Capture

1080p60 · H.264

Hardware encode. The camera inset holds 30fps through a full-length take.

Storage

Local first, always

Every take lands in ~/Movies/Reverie before a single byte is uploaded anywhere.

Access

drive.file scope only

Reverie can only ever see files it created itself. Never the rest of your Drive.

Privacy

No telemetry

The app reports nothing back. There is no usage data for us to collect.

Pricing

Free is the real product. Paid is polish.

Loom stops you at five minutes and twenty-five videos. Nothing here stops you at all.

Recording is never metered. No tier caps how long you record or how many recordings you make — not now, not ever. The only thing we meter is storage on our servers, because that is the only thing that costs money.

Start here

Free

$0forever

Anyone. The whole recorder, not a trial.

Unlimited length and unlimited recordings
1080p60 capture, camera and mic
Trim, backdrops and every effect shipping today
Master kept on your own disk
Uploads to your own Google Drive, and we hand you Google's share link
A small Reverie mark on the share copy
No Reverie-hosted storage, no branded link, no watch page

Download for macOS

Most people

Basic

$5/ month

Explaining something quickly, and often.

Everything in Free, plus
No watermark
Branded share links on reverie.video
A hosted watch page — your title, your thumbnail, a clean player
25 GB stored with us, as a ceiling you hold — delete something to make room
Password-protected links
Link expiry
View counts, opt-in per video

Get Basic

Creators

Studio

$12/ month

Tutorials, YouTube, anything with an audience.

Everything in Basic, plus
Every effect and every export preset
Custom branding on the watch page — your logo, your accent colour
Priority support
4K capture Coming to Studio

Get Studio

One clean video, no subscription

Credits, for when you need a single video without the watermark and nothing more. One credit covers one video: no watermark, branded link, hosted watch page, password and expiry.

3 credits $5 10 credits $12

Up to 2 GB per credit. Hosted for three years, then removed.

More room, when you need it

Storage is a ceiling you hold, not a monthly allowance — the same way iCloud or Dropbox works. Add to it on Basic or Studio at any time.

+50 GB $4 / mo +200 GB $12 / mo +500 GB $25 / mo

Recording is still never metered. This is only about what we hold for you.

Students

30% off Basic and Studio, verified with an institutional email address and re-checked once a year.

If you only need the odd clean video, credits are cheaper than a subscription — that is the honest answer, so we are saying it here.

Questions

The ones worth asking.

Why is the free tier really unlimited?

Because on the free tier your recordings live in your Google Drive, not ours. We hand you Google’s own share link and step out of the way. Loom caps you because Loom holds every file. We hold nothing. Capping how long or how often you record would be an invented limit.

What is actually free?

The whole recorder. Unlimited length, unlimited recordings, 1080p60, camera and mic, the trim editor, backdrops and every effect shipping today. Paying removes the watermark and adds hosting. It never buys permission to record.

What does “25 GB stored” mean?

A ceiling you hold, not a monthly allowance — the same way iCloud works. Hold 25 GB of hosted videos at once; delete one and the room comes back. It never resets, and it has nothing to do with how much you record.

What can Reverie actually see in my Drive?

Only files it created itself. Google calls this the drive.file scope and it is the narrowest one there is. The app cannot open your other documents — that permission was never granted.

What happens if your servers go down?

You keep recording. The app is native and works offline. Nothing about a take depends on us being reachable, and a licence check will never interrupt one.

Is there a watermark?

On the free tier, a small mark in the corner of the share copy. It is drawn live in the editor, so there is no surprise at export. Paid tiers and single credits remove it.

Can I use it for YouTube tutorials, not just work?

That is half of who it is for. Full-length takes, a camera inset you can shape and place, and a full-quality master on your disk to cut in whatever editor you already use.

What happens if I stop paying?

Your recordings stay where they are — your Drive and your own disk. Your local master was never ours to delete. Branded links keep working for 30 days, then the hosted copies are removed. Google share links are unaffected.

The recorder that keeps the master.

Preparing your share copy

In your Drive