How to uninstall Camtasia on Mac

Camtasia keeps its own data in a Camtasia folder inside a TechSmith vendor folder, so open that folder and copy out anything you still want before removing it, and leave the TechSmith folder itself alone. If you activated Camtasia online and want to use the license on another Mac, deactivate it first. These steps cover Camtasia downloaded from TechSmith, plus a Homebrew section for the camtasia cask.

Deactivate the license, then quit and remove Camtasia

  1. If you plan to reuse the license elsewhere, open Camtasia, choose Manage License from the Camtasia menu and click Deactivate License, as TechSmith's uninstall article describes. Skip this if you are staying on the same Mac.
  2. Quit Camtasia.
  3. In Finder's Applications folder, move Camtasia to the Trash, then empty the Trash when you are sure.
  4. TechSmith Agent, a background process that runs alongside Camtasia, can keep running after the app is in the Trash. Log out or restart once to stop it.

Where Camtasia keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each path that exists. The paths below are the ones the Homebrew cask lists for Camtasia; a * stands for any ending, such as a year in the bundle name.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/TechSmith/Camtasia* Camtasia's own data folder Copy out anything you want, then remove this subfolder only
~/Library/Application Support/TechSmith Vendor folder that other TechSmith products can also use Leave it
/Users/Shared/TechSmith/Camtasia A Camtasia folder in the Shared folder, visible to every account on this Mac Remove only if no other account on this Mac uses Camtasia
~/Library/Caches/com.techsmith.camtasia* Cache Safe to remove after quitting
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.techsmith.camtasia* Web storage Remove with the app
~/Library/WebKit/com.techsmith.camtasia* Embedded web view data Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/com.techsmith.camtasia*.plist App preferences Remove with the app
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.techsmith.camtasia*.savedState Saved window state Safe to remove

If you installed it with Homebrew

The camtasia cask unloads the com.techsmith.TechSmithAgent launchd job when it removes the app. Its zap list covers every path in the table except the TechSmith parent, plus Camtasia's Recent Documents record and a crash reporter cache. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap camtasia yourself moves all of them to the Trash, whatever you selected in Mole, including your Camtasia folder and the copy under /Users/Shared. To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask camtasia

Mole runs --zap only when every path in the stanza is under ~/Library, is a row you ticked, is not claimed by another installed app, and uses directives it can review. The camtasia zap list reaches /Users/Shared, so Mole always drops --zap for this cask and removes only the rows you ticked.

Check the result

pgrep -il camtasia
pgrep -il TechSmithAgent
ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/TechSmith
  • No output from the first pgrep means Camtasia is not running. No output from the second means TechSmith Agent has stopped; a listed process means it is still running until you log out or restart.
  • ls printing Camtasia means Camtasia's folder is still there. Any other name in the list belongs to another TechSmith product; leave it. "No such file or directory" means the TechSmith folder does not exist at all.

What Mole lists

Mole lists ~/Library/Application Support/TechSmith/Camtasia for review and does not select it by default, because it sits inside a vendor folder; tick it yourself once you have copied out what you need. Mole never lists the TechSmith parent folder. Rows named exactly after Camtasia's bundle ID, such as its caches, web storage and preferences, are selected by default. Mole does not stop TechSmith Agent, because it is not a registered app process.

What this test covered

Camtasia 2026.2.2 was copied from TechSmith's official DMG into Applications and uninstalled live on September 20, 2026, with Mole 1.15.0 build 280. Mole's leftover scan was still marked as scanning after more than 55 seconds, no review rows had appeared, and the removal went ahead with only the app bundle, so the 86 MB Application Support/TechSmith/Camtasia folder stayed on disk; the folder is a row Mole recognizes, and a full run waits for the review rows to appear. Screen recording permission and license activation were not tested.