How to Record Mouse Clicks on Mac

People often try to record mouse clicks with the Mac’s screen recorder, then realize a video is not what they needed. Screen recording gives you something to watch. To make your Mac repeat the clicks, you need to record them as actions — coordinates, buttons and timing — that can be played back. That is what a macro recorder does.

What “recording clicks” actually means

A macro recorder captures each click as data: which button, where on screen, and how long after the previous action. Replaying it posts those same clicks back to the system, so the Mac performs them for you. AutoClick records left, right and other clicks, and it also picks up keystrokes, scrolling and drags in the same pass.

Record a click sequence step by step

1. Open AutoClick. On first run, grant Input Monitoring (to record) and Accessibility (to replay) in System Settings when prompted.
2. Press F6 to start recording.
3. Perform the clicks you want captured, at a natural pace. The pace matters — AutoClick records the delay between each click so it can reproduce your timing.
4. Press F6 again to stop. Each click appears as a numbered step with its position and timestamp.

Clean up the recording

You rarely get it perfect on the first try, so edit the steps before you replay:

• Delete a stray click that you did not mean to record.
• Reorder steps by dragging them.
• Insert a pause of any length where you need the Mac to wait.
• Switch Match timing off to use one fixed delay between every click instead of your recorded gaps.

Replay and reuse

Set the repeat count — a specific number, or 0 to loop until you stop — then press F7 to play and F8 to stop. Save the sequence under a name and you can load it again whenever the task comes back, rather than re-recording from scratch.

Recordings are stored as plain JSON on your Mac, so nothing leaves your device. If you record full sequences often, the macro recorder guide covers the editing and saving features in more depth.