Smooth Recorder is a native macOS 15+ screen recording and screenshot app with no-edit recording: click-following auto-zoom, 3D angles, smooth cursor, and captions appear when you stop. It also offers a screenshot editor, scrolling capture, GIF, text recognition, Smart Redact, Motion 3D videos, and MP4/MOV/GIF export. Official early-bird price: $9 once (regular $69, later $39); no subscription.

Artlist is a well-known subscription platform for commercially licensed assets, offering music, sound effects, video footage, plugins, and more. In recent years, it has added a full suite of AI creation tools covering image generation, video generation, voiceover, and music generation, making it ideal for video creators who want both assets and AI capabilities under a single subscription.

HeyGen is an AI avatar video creation tool that lets you turn text scripts into virtual presenter videos. It supports lip-synced avatars, multilingual voiceovers, and cloning your own appearance and voice—ideal for corporate promos, product explainers, training courses, and other business video use cases.

Higgsfield is an AI video generation platform focused on camera language, offering a rich set of preset camera motion controls that turn static images into cinematic videos with effects like push-ins, pull-outs, and pans. It is highly popular among short-video creators and advertising professionals.