Replayer‽

00 — Virtual Camera for macOS

Step away without going dark.

Replayer is a macOS virtual camera that loops a recording of you paying attention — as short or long as you need — so you can answer the door, refill the mug, or take the fourth call in a row without staring at a Zoom window for eight hours straight.

Download on the Mac App Store Free · macOS 14+ See how it works ↓
Price
Free
Clean feed
$4.99
Data sent
None
Works with
Any cam picker
§ 01

Three clicks. That's it.

No scenes, no stream decks, no OBS plugins. Record once, pick Replayer as your camera, loop whenever you need to be somewhere else.

  1. 01

    Record desk-you.

    Make a loop of whatever length feels natural. Sit down. Look at the screen. Nod occasionally. Keep it boring — boring reads as "paying attention."

  2. 02

    Pick Replayer as your camera.

    In Zoom, Meet, Discord, Twitch, OBS — anywhere you pick a camera, Replayer shows up alongside FaceTime HD and the rest.

  3. 03

    Loop from the menu bar.

    One click to go loop. One click to come back live. Your meeting sees the cover. You see the coffee machine.

§ 02

For the meetings you can't leave.

The meeting where someone says "let me share my screen" and takes eleven minutes to find the tab. The all-hands during a package delivery. Every Friday afternoon, forever.

  • a.

    The doorbell during the all-hands.

    Sign for the thing. Calm the dog. The meeting sees engaged-you the entire time.

  • b.

    Your fourth call of the afternoon.

    Camera fatigue is real. Loop while you refill water, stretch your neck, and come back before your next turn to speak.

  • c.

    The bathroom, obviously.

    We're all adults. You don't need to announce it, turn your camera off, and then explain yourself when you get back.

  • d.

    Waiting for the read-aloud to end.

    Someone's reading the deck word-for-word. Use the time to reply to the Slack they just DM'd you about.

§ 03

The honest part.

Replayer is not a deepfake and it's not trying to be. The free feed includes an away-message banner and a small Replayer watermark. You can rewrite the message, but your team still gets a visible signal that you stepped away.

If you'd rather a clean feed — for focus streams, recorded content, or calls where the banner is distracting — a one-time $4.99 in-app purchase removes the banner and watermark completely.

  • Editable message, visible by default. Transparency is the default posture.
  • Optional auto-end timer. Loops cut out before they feel off.
  • Menu-bar trigger is always visible. You can't forget you're looped.
Replayer's away-message banner shown on a video call.
FIG. 01 The default away-message banner. Red projector glyph. Not subtle. That's the point.
§ 04

Everything else, briefly.

  • F/01

    Menu-bar trigger.

    Go loop or go live in one click. No menus, no dialogs, no panic-clicking.

  • F/02

    Smart auto-reverse.

    Your loop plays forward, then backward, then forward. No visible "loop point" — no tell.

  • F/03

    Custom captions.

    Rewrite the away message for free — "grabbing coffee," "focusing for 25 min," whatever's honest. The paid upgrade only hides the banner and watermark completely.

  • F/04

    Works everywhere.

    Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Twitch, OBS, Riverside — if it has a camera picker, Replayer is in it.

  • F/05

    On-device, always.

    Your loop stays on your Mac. No cloud, no accounts, no analytics. Nothing leaves the machine.

  • F/06

    Native macOS.

    Ships as a system-extension virtual camera. Installs clean. Uninstalls clean.

§ 05

Questions you're going to ask anyway.

Q/01 Is this a deepfake?
No. It's a recording of you, captured by you, shown in a loop. The away-message banner and Replayer watermark stay visible until you pay to remove them, so your team always knows you're briefly away.
Q/02 What does the $4.99 buy me?
It removes the away-message banner and the small Replayer watermark from your camera feed. You can edit the message for free; the purchase is for a completely clean feed. One-time, non-consumable. You own it across your Macs via iCloud.
Q/03 Does it need the internet?
No. Everything runs on your Mac. We don't have a server for you to sync to. The only network call is the one the Mac App Store makes when you first download it.
Q/04 Which apps is it compatible with?
Anything that lets you pick a camera: Zoom, Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Slack huddles, Twitch / OBS, Riverside, Descript, FaceTime, Photo Booth, and so on. If the app has a camera dropdown, Replayer is in it.
Q/05 What are the system requirements?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. Replayer installs as a system-extension virtual camera, which macOS will ask you to approve once in System Settings.
Q/06 Isn't this a little sus?
Only if you treat it that way. Built-in banners, a visible menu-bar trigger, and short auto-end timers make it hard to accidentally ghost a meeting. Use it for the doorbell, not for the whole workday.
§ 06

Get Replayer.
Go handle life.

Free on the Mac App Store. One-time $4.99 in-app purchase if you want the clean feed. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking.

Download on the Mac App Store Free · macOS 14+
  • Native macOS app, signed & notarized.
  • Works with Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBS, Twitch.
  • Your loops never leave your machine.