Features
The whole list, in one place.
No add-ons, no plugin marketplace, no upgrade prompt halfway through a take. This is what the app does.
Wondering whether your machine will run it? See requirements.
The scene
- Eight layouts, from screen only to a full gallery
- Drag the camera and the screen to reposition them
- 720p, 1080p and 4K
- Square and portrait for social
- Match the shared screen exactly, so text stays sharp
- 30 or 60 fps
Cameras
- Up to four cameras at once
- A phone on your wifi as another camera
- Cut between angles with a key press
- Name each camera
- Blur, replace or recolour your background
- Six one-click effect presets
- Brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth
- Mirror, drop shadow and rounded corners
- Crop to scene, scale up, square corner crop
Branding
- Gradient and solid backgrounds
- Built-in background images
- Upload your own image
- Eight gradient directions
- Logo watermark, ours or yours
- Scrolling ticker in a colour you pick
- Name badges under every camera
- Badge colour, corners and font
Scenes and shortcuts
- Save the whole look as a scene
- A thumbnail strip under the preview
- Number keys to switch instantly
- C to cut to the next camera
- Shift and a number for a specific one
- M to mute, P for music
- I and O for the intro and outro
- B to mark this moment
- ? for the full list
Guests
- Up to four remote guests
- Join with a room code
- A green room they wait in
- Add to the scene or take them out
- Mute or disconnect any guest
- Guests hear each other without echo
- Guests see the finished scene
- Guests get their own camera controls and effects
- Screen sharing rearranges the cameras
- Media travels directly between machines
Recording
- Straight to a local file
- Review and trim when you stop
- Export MP4 or keep the original
- Mark moments while recording
- Timestamps saved beside the take
- Record the camera as its own file
- Separate microphone and system audio
- Crash recovery on the next launch
Streaming
- YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, custom RTMP
- Several destinations at the same time
- Enable or disable each one
- Bitrate per destination
- Encoder health per destination
- Automatic reconnection with backoff
- Twitch chat drawn into the scene
Virtual camera
- The whole scene as a webcam
- Zoom, Meet, Teams or a browser
- Layouts, guests and overlays included
- Installed from inside the app
- 720p at 30 fps
- Optional horizontal flip
- macOS only
Audio and presenting
- Microphone and system audio
- Bundled royalty-free music
- Add your own audio files
- Fade in and out
- Mics mute while clips and music play
- Teleprompter with auto-scroll
- Drag and resize it anywhere
- Backstage chat with your guests
- Emoji shortcodes and clickable links
All of it runs on your machine. No cloud recording, no cloud storage, no account.
Be among the first
Watercourse is in development. Join the waitlist for early access and updates as it gets closer to release.
- No subscription: great features free, go pro with a one-time purchase
- No account, no cloud storage, no upload queue
- Your recordings stay in a folder you control
- macOS, Windows and Linux
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