How to uninstall Screen Studio on Mac

Screen Studio saves recording and editing projects to ~/Screen Studio Projects, separate from its app settings and cache. Export or back up anything you still need from that folder before you remove the app; Mole and Homebrew both leave it alone unless you decide otherwise. These steps cover the official Mac download from screen.studio; the Homebrew cask screen-studio is a separate path with its own risk, described below.

Quit Screen Studio and remove the app

  1. Finish exporting any recording you are editing, then quit Screen Studio from its Dock icon or menu bar.
  2. Open Activity Monitor and search for Screen Studio to confirm nothing from it is still running. Screen Studio is built on Electron and runs helper processes next to the main window.
  3. Find Screen Studio in Finder's Applications folder and move it to the Trash. If macOS says it is in use, go back to the previous step.
  4. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions and turn off any Screen Studio entry, in case you had enabled one.
  5. If you granted Screen Recording access earlier, System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen Recording still lists Screen Studio after the app is gone. It has no effect once the app is removed, but you can clear the entry there.

Where Screen Studio keeps local data

After saving projects and quitting the app, press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each existing Library path below. Copy wanted settings, then move only the chosen Screen Studio files or folders to the Trash, keeping their parents. Your Projects folder is separate; remove it only after checking its backup.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Screen Studio Projects Your recording and editing projects Back up what you want to keep; neither Mole nor an ordinary Homebrew zap deletes non-empty project folders
~/Library/Application Support/Screen Studio App settings and app data Back up wanted settings, then remove the folder or leave it unchecked in Mole
~/Library/Caches/com.timpler.screenstudio and ~/Library/Caches/com.timpler.screenstudio.ShipIt App and updater cache Remove after quitting
~/Library/Preferences/com.timpler.screenstudio.plist App preferences Remove after quitting
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.timpler.screenstudio.savedState Saved window state Remove after quitting
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.timpler.screenstudio Local web storage used by the app's UI Remove after quitting

In the recorded test, only the app and its Application Support folder existed on disk, since no recording had been made; the caches, preferences, saved state and HTTP storage rows above come from the Homebrew cask's own zap list rather than from something this run observed.

Check the result

pgrep -il "screen studio"
launchctl list | grep -i timpler
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/"Screen Studio"
ls -d ~/"Screen Studio Projects"
  • No output from pgrep means no Screen Studio process is running. A listed process means it is still active; quit it before touching its data.
  • If launchctl list succeeds but the filter prints nothing, the current user job list has no line containing timpler; other labels are outside this query. A command error leaves the state unknown.
  • ls -d printing the Application Support path means the folder is still there, expected if you kept it unchecked. "No such file or directory" means it is gone.
  • ls -d printing the Projects path means the folder exists, not that it contains recordings. Inspect and back up any wanted contents before deleting it; the folder can also exist without any recordings.

If you installed it with Homebrew

Mole checks the zap list first: unchecked or shared data, or anything it cannot fully verify, keeps --zap out, and it still cleans whatever you selected.

The screen-studio cask's zap list reaches ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Studio, its caches, preferences, saved window state, HTTP storage, a recent-documents entry, and it only removes ~/Screen Studio Projects when that folder is empty. Leave Application Support unchecked to keep its local data; checking that row alone does not guarantee --zap, because Mole checks the full list. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap screen-studio yourself does not look at Mole's checkboxes, though it still leaves your project folder alone as long as it holds files. Homebrew Screen Studio cask

To remove only the app and keep everything else:

brew uninstall --cask screen-studio

What Mole lists

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Studio is listed for review. With Remove data and settings with apps off it starts unchecked; with it on, eligible app data can start checked. Back up wanted settings or uncheck it.
  • The cache, preferences, saved window state and HTTP storage files under com.timpler.screenstudio are selected by default.
  • ~/Screen Studio Projects is not listed, so your recordings stay where they are; back them up yourself if you plan to delete that folder.

What this test covered

On September 22, 2026, Screen Studio 3.7.5-4595 was copied from the official download into Applications, opened once without starting a recording or granting Screen Recording access, and removed with a development build of Mole. The 654 MB app and its 1.9 MB Application Support folder were both ticked and went to the Trash with no failures, and a scan by name afterward found nothing left from Screen Studio. While it was open, Mole's Status page showed it as one row using 482 MB. No caches, preferences or saved window state existed to check on this run, no recording was ever made, and the Homebrew cask was not tested.