Now on the Mac App Store · Version 1.1 · Native macOS

Your drone footage
deserves telemetry.

Now with 1-click AI color and instruments you design yourself. Burn speed gauges, compasses, altimeters and GPS paths onto your DJI footage — then grade it in one click. No LUT session, no Resolve. Or export transparent overlays for Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro.

See What It Does
Download on the Mac App Store — €29,99 / $29.99
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One-time purchase · macOS 14.0 or later · All future updates included.

Action Overlay — Professional telemetry overlays on drone footage
Works with

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Built from the ground up for macOS. No Electron. No Java. No compromises.

✨

1-Click AI Color New in 1.1

Shoot D-Log and skip the grading marathon. One click balances exposure, contrast and white point for you — flat footage to a finished look in seconds, no LUT rabbit hole.

🎛

Design Your Own Instruments New in 1.1

Bring your own gauge skins and build a HUD that matches your channel, not a generic template. Design speed, compass, altimeter and attitude instruments exactly how you want them.

⏱

7 Gauge Styles

Car, Minimal, Speedometer, Dashboard, Aviation — pick the style that matches your footage. Independent styles for speed and vertical speed.

📌

Drag & Drop Positioning

Click and drag any overlay to position it exactly where you want. Snap-to-grid and resize handles for pixel-perfect alignment.

🎨

Classic & Glass Themes

Choose between clean opaque overlays or stunning glassmorphism effects with real-time backdrop blur and inner glow.

⚡

Apple Silicon Fast

Native Metal + AVFoundation pipeline. Export 4K at full speed with 90%+ cache hit rates. No waiting around.

📦

Flight Record Merge

Auto-merge DJI flight records with SRT data for richer overlays — RC sticks, gimbal angles, battery level, and more.

📄

Made for Your NLE

Export transparent overlay layers and drop them straight into Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or any editor. Full creative control in your timeline. Batch export included.

👁

Video Processing Suite

Color correction with 7 sliders, noise reduction with 4 quality modes (including BM3D-inspired), and luminance sharpening. No telemetry required — works as a standalone video tool too.

✂

Export Trim

Export only the portion you need. Set start and end points with sliders or draggable brackets on the timeline. Per-sensor trim lets you control when individual overlays appear.

The App

Professional tools.
Intuitive interface.

Three-column layout inspired by Final Cut Pro. Everything visible, nothing hidden in menus.

Action Overlay
Action Overlay full interface with drone footage and telemetry overlays
📌 Overlay Library Toggle sensors on/off
🎨 Inspector Panel Fine-tune every detail
Real-time video preview with telemetry overlays showing mountains

Real-Time Preview

See it before you export.

Smooth hardware-accelerated video playback with all overlays rendered in real time. No more exporting just to check if things look right.

  • ▶️ Smooth AVPlayer playback with live overlay updates at 20 Hz
  • 📈 Resize and reposition overlays with drag handles
  • 📷 Fullscreen mode and preview screenshots for sharing
  • 🎨 Color correction, noise reduction, sharpening, and sync offset alignment

Color Correction & Video Processing

Grade, denoise, and
sharpen your footage.

A complete video processing pipeline built right in. Load a LUT, fine-tune with 7 color sliders, reduce noise, and sharpen — all GPU-accelerated and visible in real-time preview.

  • 🎨 Import industry-standard .cube LUT files for instant color grading
  • 👁 7 color correction sliders — exposure, contrast, saturation, midtones, temperature, highlights, shadows
  • 🔈 4 noise reduction modes — from fast GPU filter to BM3D-inspired maximum quality for noisy high-ISO footage
  • 🔬 Luminance sharpening with adjustable amount and radius — recover detail after denoising
  • ⚡ Entire pipeline runs on the GPU — LUT → Color Correction → Noise Reduction → Sharpness → Overlays
Drone footage with color correction LUT applied — vibrant blues and enhanced contrast
Original ungraded drone footage — flat color profile
⇄
Original With LUT

Overlay Types

15+ overlay sensors.
Infinite combinations.

Every overlay is independently customizable. Mix and match to tell your flight story.

🕢

Speed Gauge

7 styles from classic car gauge to aviation airspeed

⬆️

Vertical Speed

Climb and descent rate with independent style

🧭

Compass

Classic, heading indicator, vintage, and flat styles

🌐

GPS Path

Live flight path with satellite map background

📈

Heightmap

Altitude profile chart, horizontal or vertical

✈️

Altimeter

Aviation 3-pointer altimeter with Kollsman window

📷

Camera Info

Shutter speed, ISO, and aperture readouts

📑

Text Overlays

Elapsed time, distance, and more with custom fonts

🎮

RC Sticks

Dual stick visualization showing aileron, elevator, rudder, and throttle inputs

🔋

Altitude Bar

Vertical altitude bar with tick marks, labels, and dynamic indicator

🔋

Battery & Gimbal

Battery level, voltage, gimbal pitch/roll/yaw from flight records

📡

GPS Satellites

Satellite acquisition count and signal status overlay

How It Works

From flight to film
in three steps.

1

Load Your Files

Drop in your drone video and SRT telemetry file. Action Overlay auto-detects formats and scans for matching flight records to merge.

2

Customize Overlays

Pick your sensors, choose gauge styles, adjust colors and positions. Preview everything in real time before committing.

3

Export

Burn overlays directly onto your video, or export a transparent overlay layer for your editing timeline. H.264, H.265, or ProRes — your choice.

7

Gauge styles

4K

Full resolution export

93%

Cache efficiency

15+

Overlay types

Why Action Overlay

Built for Mac.
Not ported to it.

Every alternative is either Windows-only, abandoned, or built on slow cross-platform frameworks. Action Overlay is different.

Feature Action Overlay Telemetry Overlay RaceRender DashWare
Native macOS ✓ Apple Silicon Cross-platform Java-based Windows only
DJI SRT Support ✓ Auto-detect ✓ ✗ Limited
Real-Time Preview ✓ ✓ Limited ✗
4K Export ✓ Hardware accel. ✓ ✓ Broken
Batch Export ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Transparent Export ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Flight Record Merge ✓ Auto-detect ✗ ✗ ✗
Color Correction & Denoise ✓ LUT + 7 sliders + 4 NR modes + sharpness ✗ ✗ ✗
Glass Theme ✓ Backdrop blur ✗ ✗ ✗
Still Maintained ✓ Active ✓ ✓ Abandoned
Price €29,99 / $29.99 one-time $99 - $199 $45 - $60 Free (dead)

Early Feedback

What pilots are saying.

★★★★★
"Finally a telemetry overlay app that actually runs natively on my Mac. DashWare was a nightmare in Parallels. This just works."
T
Thomas K.
DJI Mini 4 Pro pilot
★★★★★
"The glass theme on the speedometer looks incredible over mountain footage. My YouTube audience loves the professional look."
S
Sarah M.
Drone content creator
★★★★★
"Batch export is a game changer. I process 20+ flights from each trip. What used to take hours now takes minutes."
R
Ricardo P.
Professional surveyor

Pricing

One app. One price.
No subscriptions.

Pay once, own it forever. All future updates included.

Action Overlay

€29,99 / $29.99
One-time purchase via Mac App Store · regional pricing applies
  • Design your own gauges — import custom gauge packs
  • 1-click AI color: auto exposure, white balance & dehaze
  • Automatic moment detection & NLE markers (FCP, Premiere, Resolve)
  • All 15+ overlay types including RC sticks
  • 7 gauge styles + 4 compass styles
  • 4K export with hardware acceleration
  • Transparent overlay export for Premiere, Resolve & FCP
  • Batch export for entire flight sessions
  • Flight record auto-merge
  • Classic & Glass themes
  • Color correction, LUT, noise reduction & sharpness
  • Full DJI drone support
  • Templates, presets & all future updates
Download on the Mac App Store
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Ready to elevate your
drone footage?

Available now on the Mac App Store — one-time purchase, no subscription.

Requires macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later. Optimized for Apple Silicon.