Pick one of 12 animated avatars and HappyRec drives it from your real expressions — blinking, mouth movement, head tilt — using on-device face tracking. Your camera image itself is never recorded.
HappyRec uses Apple's Vision framework to track your face live: blink, mouth position, and head tilt all feed into the avatar in real time. The tracking runs entirely on your Mac — the actual camera frames are used only to compute that tracking data and are discarded immediately after, never written to disk or sent anywhere.
Turn off "Prefer avatar over camera" and the same bubble shows a live Face Cam instead, which auto-zooms to keep your face centered. Want to show neither? Switch the overlay to a Logo bubble and display your own image instead. All three — Avatar, Face Cam, Logo — get burned directly into the recording, so they appear even in Window and Area modes, where a floating overlay window could never normally be captured.
Ready to record? Head back to the Getting Started guide, or see all four capture modes in Recording Modes.