It bridges the gap between raw screen recording and professional editing, allowing users to export studio-quality MP4s or GIFs without manual keyframing.

It sits directly atop Apple’s native Virtualization Framework, providing paravirtualized graphics and hardware-accelerated CPU performance.

Lume is frequently used to build "AI agents" because it provides an HTTP API that allows large language models (LLMs) to programmatically control a desktop environment via screenshots and simulated input.