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Cadence caps every recording step at 60 seconds, then auto-stitches them into one guide.
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Screen guides in 5 steps, 60 seconds each is Cadence's own framing, and the 60-second cap isn't a suggestion — every step of a recording auto-stops at that mark, forcing a guide to stay tight rather than sprawling into a 12-minute unedited ramble the way a typical screen recording tends to.
The workflow mirrors that constraint directly: outline the guide first, starting at 5 steps and adjustable from 2 up to 8, then record against the clock, with each step ending automatically at 60 seconds. Fumble one step, and only that step needs a retake — the others stay exactly as recorded. Export stitches everything into a single MP4 automatically, complete with title cards and chapter markers, ready to drop into Slack, Notion, or wherever it needs to live next, in three auto-framed formats: 16:9 for docs, 9:16 for Reels and TikTok, and 1:1 for feed posts.
The site draws a direct comparison against the tools people usually reach for instead: Loom produces unedited video of any length that still needs manual trimming, Screen Studio produces a polished result but requires a full manual timeline edit, and Scribe/Tango skips video entirely for screenshots and text. Cadence's pitch is landing in between — structured and chaptered without the editing overhead, and stored locally rather than in someone else's cloud.
Privacy follows the same local-first logic: no accounts, no upload, recordings that never leave the Mac. Pricing breaks from the subscription model most of this category uses — a one-time purchase rather than a recurring plan, framed directly on the site as 'no subscription, no seat math,' with a 7-day free trial requiring no card and a license covering use on 3 Macs. One real limitation worth flagging: Cadence currently requires macOS 13+ and has no Windows build yet, with only an email waitlist for anyone hoping for one.
No — there's no timeline at all; structure comes from the 60-second step cap and automatic stitching instead, which is the specific tradeoff Cadence makes for speed over manual editing control.
No — per-step retakes mean only the flubbed step needs to be re-recorded, while the rest of the guide's steps stay exactly as they were.
No — the site states no accounts, no upload, and no cloud, with recordings staying local to the Mac they were recorded on.
No — it's a one-time purchase rather than a recurring plan, which the site contrasts directly against Loom's ongoing monthly pricing.
Not yet — it currently requires macOS 13+ and runs on Apple Silicon or Intel Macs only, with the site collecting emails on a waitlist for anyone hoping for a future Windows build.
