Maya AI Studio

AI-assisted macOS editor for product demos, App Store previews, social videos, carousel creatives, and device mockup exports.

Maya turns screen recordings and product image sets into polished videos, transparent overlays, carousel assets, and launch-ready social clips.

Current release: Maya AI Studio 2.5.2

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Overview

Maya AI Studio is a native macOS creative editor for makers, designers, and app teams. It helps turn raw app recordings, product screenshots, and launch assets into finished videos without using a heavyweight video editor.

The public app name is Maya AI Studio and the bundle identifier is com.dlmapps.MayaAIStudio. Some internal paths still use the original Maya name, including the source folder, Xcode project, and target.

Three Creation Modes

Maya 2.5.2 is built around three distinct creation modes, each tuned for a different content workflow:

• Video Mode turns screen recordings into polished product demos, social videos, transparent overlays, and device mockup exports.
• Carousel Mode turns product images and screenshots into square-first motion carousels, still image sets, narrated slide videos, and handoff bundles.
• Narrated Images Mode turns plain images into square-first narrated videos with per-image scripts, local AI voiceover, voice-aligned captions, draggable caption placement, and burned-in MP4 export.

Screenshots

Video Mode

Carousel Mode

Narrated Images Mode

Modes

Video Mode

Create polished product videos from .mp4 and .mov recordings.

• Trim recordings with timeline controls.
• Place recordings inside iPhone, Android, tablet, laptop, MacBook, or no-frame mockups.
• Add background colors, gradients, image backgrounds, blurred-video backgrounds, shadows, and transparent backgrounds.
• Add zoom segments and subtle motion for product walkthroughs.
• Generate AI-assisted edit plans through the local Codex CLI.
• Export social-ready .mp4 files or transparent HEVC-with-alpha .mov overlays.

Carousel Mode

Create social carousel videos, still image sets, and handoff bundles from product images.

• Import app screens, launch graphics, screenshots, or ad images.
• Build projects for 9:16, 4:5, 1:1, and 16:9 formats.
• Choose motion presets such as Still, Subtle Zoom, Punch Zoom, Pan, or Auto.
• Detect slide text locally with Apple Vision OCR.
• Generate per-slide narration and align voiceover timing to the carousel timeline.
• Export .mp4 videos, .png still sets, or structured bundle folders.

Narrated Images Mode

Create square-first narrated image videos from plain images.

• Import images with no text baked into them.
• Write a spoken script for each image scene.
• Generate local AI voiceover and editable burned-in caption beats from the script.
• Align caption timing to the generated voiceover with a local WhisperX-style forced alignment environment.
• Generate all scripted scenes as a queue so voice generation and caption alignment can stay warm across the project.
• Drag caption placement directly on the canvas per image.
• Export .mp4 videos with image motion, voiceover, and captions.

Local AI

Maya uses local-first AI workflows where possible.

• AI Director uses your installed codex command to suggest trim and zoom edits for product demos.
• Carousel script cleanup can use Codex to clean OCR-damaged text before narration.
• Voiceover generation runs through local voice engines installed into isolated Python environments in Application Support.
• Narrated Images caption alignment can run locally in its own isolated Python environment to match captions to generated voiceover timing.
• Narrated Images content creation keeps local Kokoro and caption-alignment workers warm when available, and reuses generated narration for matching engine, voice, and script inputs.
• Generated narration, previews, and downloaded voice assets stay on the Mac unless a user-controlled tool sends data elsewhere.

Install and sign in to Codex before using AI Director or script cleanup:

codex login

Voiceover

Maya supports local narration in Video and Carousel modes.

• Kokoro is the default local AI voice engine.
• Piper remains available as a fast fallback.
• Voice engines are installed into separate local Python virtual environments.
• The voiceover panel shows engine status, preview controls, storage usage, repair actions, and asset cleanup.
• Carousel mode can generate one narration clip per slide from edited text, planned text, or detected OCR text.

Export

Maya can export:

• H.264 .mp4 videos for social platforms and product demos.
• Transparent HEVC-with-alpha .mov files when the canvas background is set to none.
• Carousel .mp4 videos with project-level or per-slide narration.
• Carousel .png still image sets.
• Carousel handoff bundles with video, stills, JSON data, copy, and a handoff README.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
Space	Play / pause
M	Mute / unmute source audio
I	Mark trim in
O	Mark trim out
Delete	Delete selected zoom event
Command + D	Duplicate selected zoom event
Left / Right	Scrub 0.25 s
Shift + Left / Right	Scrub 1 s

Tech Stack

• SwiftUI and AppKit
• AVFoundation and AVAssetWriter
• Core Image and Metal compositing
• HEVC-with-alpha export
• Swift Observation and async/await
• Apple Vision OCR
• Local Codex CLI workflows
• Local Piper and Kokoro TTS environments

Requirements

• macOS 26.2 or later
• Xcode 26.5 or later for development
• .mp4 or .mov recordings for Video mode
• Image assets for Carousel mode
• Codex CLI installed and signed in for AI Director and carousel text cleanup
• Optional local voice engine setup through Maya for narration generation

Release

Latest release: Maya AI Studio 2.5.2

Download Maya AI Studio 2.5.2