How to uninstall Camtasia on Mac

Camtasia keeps its own data in a Camtasia folder inside a TechSmith vendor folder, so open that folder and copy out anything you still want before removing it, and leave the TechSmith folder itself alone. If you activated Camtasia online and want to use the license on another Mac, deactivate it first. These steps cover Camtasia downloaded from TechSmith, plus a Homebrew section for the camtasia cask.

Deactivate the license, then quit and remove Camtasia

1. If you plan to reuse the license elsewhere, open Camtasia, choose Manage License from the Camtasia menu and click Deactivate License, as TechSmith's current activation article describes. Skip this if you are staying on the same Mac.
2. Save your editable projects and their recording/media files to an independent location, verify the copies, then quit Camtasia.
3. In Finder's Applications folder, move Camtasia to the Trash, retain it until backups are verified. If permanently deleting it later, remove only the reviewed Camtasia items from Trash, preserving unrelated files.
4. TechSmith Agent, a background process that runs alongside Camtasia, can keep running after the app is in the Trash. After saving work, log out or restart if it remains, then check again; a retained TechSmith product may start it anew.

Where Camtasia keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each path that exists. The paths below are the ones the Homebrew cask lists for Camtasia; a * stands for any ending, such as a year in the bundle name.

After all relevant app processes quit, copy wanted local state from the table paths to an independent backup and verify it, then open their parent folders in Finder and move only actual unwanted items belonging to the removed version to the Trash. A * is a matching pattern, not a literal folder name; keep retained versions and vendor parents. The current cask also names these leaves:

• ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/com.techsmith.camtasia2026.sfl*
• ~/Library/Caches/com.plausiblelabs.crashreporter.data/com.techsmith.camtasia*
• ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.techsmith.camtasia*.binarycookies

For /Users/Shared/TechSmith/Camtasia, preserve it if any other user or retained version needs it. Only after its owners agree and independent copies are verified may the owner move this Camtasia child to the Trash; keep /Users/Shared/TechSmith and /Users/Shared. Ordinary Homebrew removal unloads TechSmith Agent even without zap, so avoid that route while another TechSmith product needs the shared job.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The camtasia cask unloads the com.techsmith.TechSmithAgent launchd job when it removes the app. Its zap list covers every path in the table except the TechSmith parent, plus Camtasia's Recent Documents record and a crash reporter cache. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap camtasia yourself moves all of them to the Trash, whatever you selected in Mole, including your Camtasia folder and the copy under /Users/Shared. For removal without the zap data list:

brew uninstall --cask camtasia

Mole skips --zap when its scope reaches unchecked or shared data, leaves supported Library locations, or cannot be verified. The camtasia zap list reaches /Users/Shared, so Mole always drops --zap for this cask and removes only the rows you ticked.

Check the result

pgrep -il camtasia
pgrep -il TechSmithAgent
ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/TechSmith

• No output from either pgrep only means that process-name pattern did not match. Check Activity Monitor for confirmed Camtasia and TechSmith Agent processes; save work before a logout or restart and verify the result again.
• ls printing Camtasia means Camtasia's folder is still there. Other names may belong to another TechSmith product or a retained Camtasia version; leave unconfirmed entries alone. "No such file or directory" means the TechSmith folder does not exist at all.

What Mole lists

With Remove data and settings with apps off, the listed ~/Library/Application Support/TechSmith/Camtasia review row starts unchecked; with it on, an eligible existing own unshared row may start checked. Verify independent backups and uncheck it if you want its data retained. Mole never lists the TechSmith parent folder. Rows named exactly after Camtasia's bundle ID, such as its caches, web storage and preferences, are selected by default. Do not assume removing the app stops every TechSmith Agent process; check the actual remaining owner before stopping it, particularly if another TechSmith product is installed.

What this test covered

Camtasia 2026.2.2 was copied from TechSmith's official DMG into Applications and uninstalled live on September 20, 2026, with Mole 1.15.0 build 280. Mole's leftover scan was still marked as scanning after more than 55 seconds, no review rows had appeared, and the removal went ahead with only the app bundle, so the 86 MB Application Support/TechSmith/Camtasia folder stayed on disk; the folder is a row Mole recognizes, and a full run waits for the review rows to appear. Screen recording permission and license activation were not tested.