Montra
Montra is a Mac app that turns narrated screen recordings into ready-to-implement tasks. Record, talk through the change, annotate as you go, and hand your coding agent or teammate one link carrying tasks, transcript and annotated screenshots.
What is Montra?
Montra is a macOS desktop application from Montra Interactive Inc., a small team based in Toronto. It exists to remove one specific chore: writing the ticket. Rather than describing a change in prose, you press a global shortcut, ⌘⇧M by default, pick a screen or a window, and talk through what is wrong or what you want changed, annotating the details that matter as you go. When you stop, generation starts on its own.
What comes back is not a video to file away. Montra extracts clear implementation tasks from what you showed and said, attaches the relevant frames and your annotations to each one, and keeps the transcript of your narration alongside. You review and edit the result, then pass it on.
The handoff is where the product makes its case. A single share link serves two audiences at once: a teammate opens it in a browser and reads the tasks, while a coding agent pulls the same tasks, transcript and visual references from a machine-readable JSON URL. Cursor and Claude Code are named explicitly. Linear issues and Notion pages can be created natively from any task, and work can be copied out to v0 or GitHub. Agent links expire on their own, and access can be revoked at any time.
To give the model enough context, a session captures more than pixels: window and application titles, the addresses of pages open in your browser, and where you clicked. macOS asks for Screen Recording, Microphone and Accessibility permission first, and each can be withdrawn later in System Settings.
Under the hood, Deepgram handles speech-to-text, Google Cloud stores and analyses the recordings, and Supabase holds accounts and documents. All are named in the privacy policy, which also states that your recordings, transcripts and documents are not used to train AI models.
Requirements are strict: an Apple silicon Mac, with no mobile app, no browser extension and no documented public API. The homepage still carries an Introducing the Montra Beta badge while a July 2026 post announces Montra 1.0, which tells you plainly how young the product is.
What it does
- Turn a narrated screen recording into clear implementation tasks
- Attach annotated screenshots and the exact frames you pointed at to each task
- Hand a coding agent one share link carrying tasks, transcript and visual context
- Create a Linear issue or a Notion page straight from a task
- Transcribe what you said while the recording was running
- Annotate the screen live, in the middle of a capture
- Share one workspace and one billing account across a team
When to use Montra / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Montra is the right fit.
When to use Montra
- Product and engineering teams that already delegate implementation to coding agents such as Cursor or Claude Code
- Developers and designers who would rather show an interface problem than write it up in a ticket
- QA testers and support engineers who need a reproducible bug report with annotated frames and a transcript
- Founders and small teams on Apple silicon Macs, who can start on the permanent free plan and pay per seat only as people join
- Teams standardised on Linear or Notion, where a recording can become an issue or a page in one step
When not to use Montra
- Anyone on Windows, Linux or an Intel Mac, since the app requires an Apple silicon Mac
- Mobile-first users, as no iOS or Android version exists
- Developers looking for a documented public API to build on, as none is published
- Regulated or highly confidential environments: no Data Processing Agreement, no published security certification, and content processed by third parties in the United States
- Buyers who need refunds or contractual guarantees, since all purchases are final and the product is still labelled beta
How to use Montra
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download the .dmg from the Montra website, on an Apple silicon Mac
- Open Montra.dmg from your Downloads folder
- Drag the Montra icon into your Applications folder, then launch it from there
- Grant the macOS permissions the app asks for: Screen Recording, Microphone and Accessibility
- Press ⌘⇧M, the default global shortcut, to start a capture
- Choose the screen or the window you want to record
- Talk through what should change, annotating the important details as you record
- Stop the recording: task generation starts automatically
- Review and edit the tasks, frames and transcript that come back
- Share the link with a teammate or an agent, or create a Linear issue or a Notion page from a task
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Removes ticket writing altogether: you show and talk, the tasks get written for you
- One artefact serves both a human reader and a coding agent, with no copy-pasting in between
- Explicit commitment that recordings, transcripts and documents are not used to train AI models
- Subprocessors are named one by one in the privacy policy, and PostHog session replay is switched off
- Recordings also stay on your own Mac, and temporary frames are deleted shortly after capture
- Permanent free plan with 60 minutes a month, and 20% off on annual billing
- Nothing to configure: no API key, no server, just three macOS permissions
Cons
- Apple silicon Macs only, with no Windows, Linux or mobile version
- Still presented as a beta on the homepage, with no guarantee that generated content is preserved
- No Data Processing Agreement, no EU Article 27 representative and no published security certification
- Content is processed by third-party providers in the United States, with no choice of region
- All purchases are final and non-refundable
- The free plan is capped at 60 minutes a month and 10 minutes per recording
- No public API documentation, and support runs through a single email address
Pricing & Plans
Montra offers a permanent free plan, which includes 60 minutes of recording each month and caps individual recordings at 10 minutes. The cheapest paid plan is Teams, at USD 18 per member and per month, which raises the allowance to three hours per member and lifts the per-recording limit. Pro follows at USD 36 per member and per month for six hours. Annual billing is advertised at 20% less than monthly, and recording packs may be purchased separately. All purchases are final and non-refundable, though paid plans may be cancelled at any time.
- 60 minutes of recording each month
- 10 minutes maximum per recording
- agent-ready tasks and prompts
- annotated screenshots
- and one share link for teammates and agents
- everything in Free
- three hours of recording per member each month
- no limit on individual recordings
- a shared workspace
- Linear issue and Notion page creation
- centralised team billing
- and seats charged only when a teammate joins
- six hours of recording per member each month
- twice the Teams allowance
- with the same team features
- Annual billing advertised at 20% less than monthly across the paid plans
- Recording packs
- purchased separately
- shared across the workspace and without expiry
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Montra handles your data.
GDPR overview
Montra's privacy policy, last updated on 6 August 2026, grants data-subject rights explicitly framed by jurisdiction and naming GDPR and CCPA: access, rectification, erasure, objection and restriction, withdrawal of consent, and portability, all exercised at privacy@montra.com. International transfers are addressed openly: the services are hosted in Canada and the United States, the providers process data in the United States, and the policy relies on the user's consent as the basis for that transfer, without mentioning standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision. The minimum age is 16, or the local age of digital consent. Beyond that, coverage stops. No EU representative is designated under Article 27, no Data Processing Agreement is published or offered, and nowhere does Montra state in so many words that it is GDPR compliant: it grants rights without claiming conformity.
Who owns the data?
Montra's terms state that you keep ownership of your User Content, meaning the recordings, audio, screenshots, annotations, transcripts and text you create with the app. You grant Montra a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence limited to hosting, processing, transmitting and displaying that content in order to run the service for you and for the people you share it with. The company does not claim ownership of the documents and tickets generated from your recordings, and undertakes not to use your content to promote Montra without your explicit consent. Feedback and suggestions are treated separately: those carry a perpetual, irrevocable licence.
Reuse rights
Because ownership stays with you, everything Montra produces from a recording is yours to reuse without asking permission: the tasks, documents, transcripts and annotated frames can be edited, copied, exported and published as you see fit. The company explicitly declines any ownership of the generated documents and tickets, and the product is built around that reuse, whether you create a Linear issue or a Notion page, copy tasks into Cursor, Claude Code, v0 or GitHub, or point an agent at a machine-readable JSON URL. Two limits apply, and neither belongs to Montra: you must hold the rights to whatever your screen happened to capture, and the licence covering the site's own materials is personal and non-commercial. For its part, Montra uses your content only to operate the service, and states that it does not train AI models on it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Montra states that its services are hosted in Canada and the United States, and that the cloud, speech-to-text and AI model providers it relies on process data in the United States. No choice of region or data residency is offered. The privacy policy names those providers one by one: Supabase for the database, authentication and storage; Google Cloud for storing and analysing recordings; Deepgram for speech-to-text; Stripe for payments; PostHog for product analytics, with session replay disabled; Sentry for error monitoring, which receives your account identifier and email; and Linear and Notion when you export to them. It also acknowledges additional, unnamed providers for model capacity and routing, transactional email and website hosting. Users outside those regions are told their data may be transferred to jurisdictions offering different levels of protection, and that using the service implies consent to that transfer. Recordings you capture also remain on your own Mac until you delete them. The company is incorporated in Ontario, Canada, and its terms are governed by Ontario law.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Montra.
- A screen recording captures everything visible on the display, including confidential information, personal data or third-party material you never meant to share
- The session also captures window and application titles, the addresses of pages open in your browser and where you clicked, which is more context than most people expect to hand over
- You are responsible for obtaining whatever consent your jurisdiction requires before recording other people or their information
- An active share link makes the document readable by anyone holding it, recording and transcript included, and agent links expose a machine-readable copy in the same way
- Generated tasks come from AI models that can be inaccurate or incomplete, so they need reviewing before anyone acts on them
- Speaking a change is faster than writing it, which makes it easy to send half-formed requests to an agent that will implement them literally
- Montra does not guarantee that recordings or generated output will be stored, preserved or remain accessible, so keep your own copy of anything that matters
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Download the .dmg, drag Montra into your Applications folder and open it, on a signed and notarised build. The only technical step is granting three macOS permissions when prompted, namely Screen Recording, Microphone and Accessibility, all revocable later in System Settings. There is no API key, no server and no code involved. Signing in with Google is available, and connecting Linear or Notion takes a single authorisation each. The real constraint is hardware rather than skill: an Apple silicon Mac is required. Updates are checked automatically.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind Montra
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly does Montra do?
What do I need to run it?
How do I start a recording?
Which tools can I send the work to?
What is an agent share link?
Is there a free plan?
Are my recordings used to train AI models?
Where is my data hosted?
Is there a minimum age?
Can I get a refund?
Should you pick Montra?
Montra is a narrow, deliberate product, and that is its strength. It does one thing, taking the feedback you would have typed into a ticket and turning it into tasks an agent can act on, and it does so without asking you to change how you work. The About page is honest about the ambition: humans own the what and the why, agents handle the how.
For a team already pairing with Cursor or Claude Code on an Apple silicon Mac, the value lands immediately. Recording a bug takes seconds, annotated frames remove the ambiguity that kills written tickets, and one link serves the teammate and the agent alike. Linear and Notion export lets it fit an existing process rather than replace it.
The reservations are those of a young company. The homepage still says beta while a July 2026 post announces version 1.0, and the download is a 0.1.x build. There is no Data Processing Agreement, no security certification and no EU representative, and content is processed by third parties in the United States, which is enough to rule Montra out for regulated or highly sensitive screens. Purchases are final, and the terms explicitly decline to guarantee that generated content will be preserved.
The data posture is nonetheless better than the size of the team would suggest. Subprocessors are named individually, session replay is off, recordings stay on your own Mac as well, and the commitment not to train on customer content is stated plainly, twice.
At USD 18 per member and per month, on top of a genuinely usable free tier, Montra is cheap to try and easy to walk away from. Test it on the next bug you would have described in three paragraphs.
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