Changelog

New features, improvements, and fixes across the Cap desktop app, web, mobile, and browser extension.

Web

Playback Speed Controls

Playback speed is now a first-class setting. Viewers get a speed dial on the player, and owners can decide what speed a video starts at.

Features

  • Speed dial on the player - Viewers can switch playback speed directly from the share page and embeds.
  • Per-video default - Set a default playback speed for an individual Cap in its settings.
  • Organization default - Admins can set a default speed for every video in the organization.

Improvements

  • Links in comments - URLs pasted into comments are now clickable.
Desktop0.5.1

Agent CLI, Split-Screen Scenes, Recording Recovery & Export Fixes

This release turns Cap Desktop into a stronger recorder for both humans and agents. The desktop app now ships with the Cap CLI, adds a dedicated CLI settings page, and gives automated workflows a reliable way to record, export, inspect, upload, update, and diagnose Cap from the command line.

It also brings a new split-screen editing mode, self-hosted server routing, tighter recording defaults, more resilient fragmented and segmented upload recovery, and another round of export, audio timing, auth, and macOS stability fixes.

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  • Bundled Cap CLI — Cap Desktop now bundles the cap command-line tool and can install or repair it from Settings -> CLI. The installer detects existing Cap-managed shims, repoints stale links, handles symlinked targets, and recognizes persisted Windows PATH entries.
  • Agent-ready recording workflows — The CLI now supports targets, screenshots, detached recording sessions, JSON output, recording listing, project inspection, project validation, exporting, uploading, doctor diagnostics, and machine-readable guide output so agents and scripts can drive Cap without relying on UI automation.
  • Split-screen scene mode — The editor can now compose screen and camera as split-screen panes, with per-segment scene transitions, split factor controls, position pads, preview overlays, timeline scene support, and smooth layout morphing in exports.
  • Camera size during zoom — A new editor control keeps the camera size stable while zoom effects move the screen content, making split-screen and picture-in-picture edits easier to tune.
  • Cleaner background choices — Scene defaults now include a no-background option, so recordings can use split-screen, transparent, or plain layouts without forcing a decorative background.
  • Zoom editing shortcut — Double-click a zoom handle in the timeline to expand the segment quickly instead of manually dragging its edge.
  • Shared recording defaults — Desktop and CLI recording flows now use the same default settings, including the default instant-mode frame rate, so recordings started from automation match recordings started from the app.
  • Fragmented recording recovery — Cap can remux fragmented recordings when needed, including before export and after CLI-driven Studio recordings, making recovered or interrupted sessions easier to open and share.
  • Desktop segment upload recovery — Stale desktop-segment uploads can now be recovered on share-page load, finalized manually by the owner, retried automatically after transient finalization errors, and swept by the scheduled recovery job.
  • Segment manifest hardening — Finalization now treats segment manifest failures as retryable mux failures and can auto-complete the manifest before muxing.
  • Audio timing repair — Studio recordings now persist audio gap summaries and startup overlap trim, repair stale drift during editor startup, support negative timing offsets, and avoid playback readiness hangs when audio stops or timelines are invalid.
  • Safer exports — Export now synthesizes a default timeline for unedited recordings, tracks progress more reliably, and guards against zero-frame output so simple recordings can still export cleanly.
  • Silent-audio export fallback — Exports now emit silent audio frames when the renderer returns no audio, avoiding empty-audio edge cases.
  • Manual titles are preserved — Desktop uploads now keep track of manually provided recording names, so AI title generation can avoid replacing titles you already chose.
  • Desktop organization fixes — Desktop APIs now merge owned and member organizations consistently, so the app can create videos and show organizations correctly for members as well as owners.
  • Authentication reliability — macOS Tahoe deep-link delivery no longer wipes auth state, and self-hosted sign-in continues even when organization or plan refreshes fail.
  • Cropper and preview fixes — Crop and resize interactions now use pointer capture more reliably, no-op crops reset animation state correctly, and the editor skips unnecessary accurate-frame work when a crop preview is already available.
  • Rendering edge fixes — Camera bounds, inset crops, and edge-blur texture samples are now clamped more carefully at source edges, reducing visual artifacts.
  • Crash recovery markers — Desktop now records clean exits and initializes a crash sentinel on macOS, giving the app a clearer signal when the previous session ended unexpectedly.
  • macOS window cleanup fixes — macOS exit handling now tears down native window effects more carefully and guards unsupported system APIs, reducing quit-time crashes and cleanup failures.
Web

Watch Caps Before the Upload Finishes

Share pages no longer wait for uploads. Instant recordings can be watched while the upload is still in progress, and viewers see a live preview even while you are still recording.

Features

  • Playback right after stopping - Open the share link the moment you stop recording and the video starts playing while the rest uploads in the background.
  • Live preview while recording - Anyone on the share page during an active recording sees the latest footage as it arrives.
  • Seamless handoff - When the upload completes, playback switches to the final video without interruption.
Desktop0.5.0

Google Drive Integration, Merge Recordings, Desktop Backgrounds, Screenshot OCR & More

This release gives Cap Desktop a new and improved foundation for the work you do every day: recording, screenshots, importing, editing, exporting, uploading, and recovering when something goes wrong. We have hardened the capture and export pipelines, improved camera and microphone handling, and made the editor smoother so future desktop features can build on a more reliable core.

On top of that foundation, this release adds new features: Google Drive storage, merging Studio Mode recordings, importing existing videos and screenshots, screenshot OCR, camera background blur, organization branding, and more.

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  • Google Drive Integration — Connect Google Drive as a storage option in Settings -> Integrations. New Instant Mode recordings, or Studio Mode recordings created as a shareable link, will use your connected Google Drive for both uploading and serving the video.
  • Merge previous recordings — Bring existing Studio Mode recordings into the Cap editor and merge them into your current project. You can also import local videos into the editor, add media from the tray, main window, recordings settings, or drag and drop, with progress shown while Cap converts files into editable projects.
  • Camera background blur — Camera recordings now support background blur in both the live preview and the final export. Choose blur strength from the camera controls or editor sidebar, with GPU/Core ML/DirectML acceleration where available and a CPU fallback when needed.
  • Import screenshots into the editor — Bring local screenshots and images into the screenshot editor so you can crop, annotate, style, copy, or export them with the same tools as fresh captures.
  • Native screenshot OCR — The screenshot editor can now recognize text from screenshots on macOS and Windows. Select an area, copy text from the selectable overlay, and keep the original screenshot layout intact while you work.
  • Organization branding in the editor — Pick an organization in the editor, use its brand colors in backgrounds, gradients, captions, keyboard overlays, and exports, and manage brand colors and logos from the new organization dropdown.
  • Compatibility recording quality — Studio mode now has Compatibility, Balanced, and Ultra profiles. Compatibility lowers bitrate and capture pressure for older or lower-power machines, while Instant mode quality controls now make upload resolution easier to choose.
  • More resilient recording recovery — Recording now preflights disk space, tracks health during capture, hardens fragmented recording recovery, and can rescue more sessions after a crash or forced quit.
  • Smoother camera and microphone handling — Cap restores saved camera and microphone selections more reliably, locks the selected microphone during recording start, recovers mic preview after recording, handles camera setup timeouts without blocking the recorder, and now detects microphones whose drivers misreport their sample rate so audio no longer comes out choppy or gappy.
  • Audio and video stay in sync — Studio Mode recordings now keep audio locked to video for the full length of a recording, including long sessions. Cap reconciles late or overlapping microphone audio against the capture clock instead of layering in duplicate silence, bounds unexpected gaps against wall-clock time, pads the tail with silence when a capture pipeline is cancelled, and handles Windows system audio, microphone resampling, decoded sources, and surround downmixing more reliably.
  • Better camera preview reliability — Camera windows are session-scoped, preview failures show structured messages in the UI, frame stalls trigger recovery, WebSocket reconnects use stronger backoff, and sleep/wake cleanup is more reliable.
  • Faster camera preview performance — Camera preview rendering is coalesced, native preview threads are prioritized, legacy preview frames are throttled, and Cap prefers lower-cost camera capture formats when they keep recording smooth.
  • Clearer, safer exports — Export now uses the native save dialog, shows a redesigned circular progress overlay, handles cancellation cleanly, prompts before closing a window with an active export, serializes preview generation, guards active exports before quit, and recovers from more rendering failures instead of leaving the app stuck.
  • Windows export and playback stability — Windows exports use safer release paths, pin the graphics adapter used by desktop rendering, and avoid text scaling issues that could make the main window and controls render at the wrong size.
  • Smoother editor playback — The editor now preloads cursor assets, prerenders the first frame, uses a faster RGBA/WebGPU path, improves NV12 conversion, and keeps audio playback aligned with the visible playhead.
  • Better cursor, zoom, and composite rendering — Auto zooms ease out more naturally, zoom focus follows the smoothed cursor path, cursor size defaults are more predictable, cursor height now respects the source screen and crop, and composited frames have smoother antialiasing, blending, and motion blur defaults.
  • Desktop backgrounds and background controls — The editor includes a bundled city wallpaper pack, supports manual image imports, can use your current desktop wallpaper as a background, snapshots the desktop background for Studio recordings, and adds a screen background blur control for more polished exports.
  • Settings redesign — Desktop settings have a shared layout, a refreshed recordings and integrations experience, an account profile in the sidebar, native macOS material styling, a manual Check for Updates action, and a telemetry opt-out toggle.
  • More polished recorder controls — The main recorder has refreshed device controls, camera and microphone format pickers, animated navigation into device settings, better saved input restoration, clearer warnings when Compatibility mode may reduce capture settings, and more reliable click handling for the in-progress recording controls.
  • Cap windows stay out of recordings — macOS recordings now exclude more Cap-owned windows by default, including Tauri webviews and overlays. Cap also warns when a window cannot be protected and hides overlays before screenshots.
  • macOS focus and Dock fixes — Fixed duplicate Dock icons, app switcher persistence, panel focus behavior, and the hide Dock icon setting when Cap panels or recording windows are visible.
  • Timeline and editing fixes — Captions and keyboard tracks now clamp correctly at trim boundaries, split-mode clicks land more accurately on clamped segments, Studio recordings allow deleting the last clip in a segment, and crop menu positioning is more reliable.
  • App shutdown and upload cleanup — Exit handling now waits more carefully for recording, export, upload, and editor cleanup work, restores microphone feeds after recording stops, and avoids quit-time crashes from camera teardown.
Web

Edit Caps in the Browser

You can now edit a Cap after recording it, right from the share page. Trim the start and end, split the video, and cut out the parts you do not want.

Features

  • Trim, split, and cut - Remove dead air and mistakes on a simple timeline, then save.
  • Rendered in the cloud - Edits are applied server-side, so the shared video updates for every viewer with no re-upload.
  • Draft recovery - Unsaved edits are kept in your browser so you can pick up where you left off.
Web

Bulk Loom Import

Migrating a whole team from Loom now takes one CSV. Export your library from Loom, upload the file, and Cap imports every video in the background.

Features

  • CSV import - Upload a Loom export CSV and Cap maps the columns, then imports each video with its title intact.
  • Runs in the background - Large libraries import over time, with progress you can check from the dashboard.
  • Keeps owners intact - Videos are assigned to the right teammates as they are imported.
Web

Google Drive Storage

Cap can now store your recordings in Google Drive. Connect Drive as a storage destination and new Caps upload straight into your own Drive, joining custom S3 buckets as a bring-your-own-storage option.

Features

  • Connect Google Drive - Link a Drive account and choose it as the destination for new recordings.
  • Organization-managed storage - A new storage page in organization settings lets admins set where the whole team's Caps are stored.
  • Share pages unchanged - Links, playback, and transcripts work the same wherever the video lives.
Desktop0.4.84

Ultra Quality, Camera Overhaul & Segmented Uploads

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  • Ultra quality mode — A new quality selector in settings lets you switch between Balanced and Ultra for studio recordings. Ultra uses higher bitrates for maximum fidelity in detailed UI walkthroughs and code demos.
  • Segmented Instant Mode recordings — Instant mode now uploads HLS segments as they're recorded instead of assembling a single MP4. Your link is shareable sooner and viewers can watch a live preview while you're still recording. Now enabled on Windows too.
  • Screen capture auto-restart — On macOS, if the screen capture pipeline drops out, it automatically restarts without interrupting your recording.
  • Camera reliability — Camera preview now detects stalls and auto-refreshes, restores correctly when reopening Cap or waking from sleep, and always cleans up feeds when recording ends.
  • Camera performance — Batched rendering, thread-local decoder caching, and frame reuse make camera preview significantly smoother across both macOS and Windows.
  • Click-to-lock window selection — Click a window in the target selector to lock onto it. The camera preview repositions automatically to stay out of the way, and recording controls now anchor relative to your capture target.
  • Trim handle flickering — Fixed a rendering glitch when dragging trim handles in the editor.
  • Cmd/Ctrl+W to close windows — Standard keyboard shortcut now works to close any Cap window.
  • Platform-specific hotkey labels — Settings now show the correct modifier symbols for your OS (⌘ on Mac, Ctrl on Windows).
  • Recording stop reliability — Timeouts throughout the stop pipeline prevent hangs when ending a recording. Audio and video now stop concurrently for faster shutdown.
  • Exit shutdown guards — All uploads complete and resources clean up before the app fully exits, preventing data loss on quit.
  • Camera-only recording fixes — Thumbnails and uploads now work correctly for camera-only recordings.
Desktop0.4.83

Audio Fixes, Stability & Crash Recovery

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  • Audio across speed segments — Timeline audio now renders correctly across speed change boundaries. Previously, applying speed changes could cause audio to cut out or glitch at segment edges.
  • Audio playback stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when starting audio playback in certain editor states.
  • Audio drift correction — The macOS MP4 encoder audio drift guard is now based on effective video PTS, fixing audio sync drift that could occur with external microphones.
  • Sensitive mask scaling — Pixelation masks now scale proportionally with output height, so blurred regions stay correctly sized when exporting at different resolutions.
  • FFmpeg decoder reliability — Future frames are now ignored during decoder fallback, and the frame reuse window is wider, preventing wrong frames from appearing during seeking or playback near cuts.
  • Export fix for recovered projects — Recovered projects no longer force the FFmpeg decoder path, fixing export failures that could occur on recordings restored from a crash.
  • macOS startup race fix — Main window setup is deferred until the UI reports ready, and uploads resume correctly after the ready listener installs. This fixes a class of startup hangs and stalled uploads on macOS.
  • Window layering fix — The main panel is no longer forced above other windows when shown, fixing cases where Cap would unexpectedly steal focus.
  • macOS dock icon sync — Dock icon visibility now correctly follows the hide-dock-icon setting and updates when windows open or close.
  • Camera cleanup on exit — Camera preview shutdown always begins on app exit, and macOS camera window teardown is skipped during exit cleanup to prevent quit-time crashes.
  • Windows editor reopen — Editor windows on Windows now correctly reopen after being closed, matching the existing macOS behavior.
  • Hex color input — RGB hex input is now gated until the full digit count is entered, preventing partial color values from being applied mid-typing.
  • Camera preview compositing — The camera preview now selects a supported wgpu composite alpha mode, fixing rendering artifacts on GPUs that don't support the previously hardcoded mode.
Desktop0.4.82

Transcript Editor, Optimized Exports, ProRes Cursor Export & Bug Fixes

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  • Transcript editor — Captions are now editable at the word level in a dedicated transcript panel. Click, Ctrl+click, or Shift+click to select words, navigate with the keyboard, and delete words with automatic ripple-delete across all timeline tracks. Active words highlight in sync with playback position.
  • Optimize file size toggle — A new toggle on the export page enables CRF-based encoding for smaller output files. File size for 4K recordings is reduced by up to 97%. This is a slower export method, but results in significantly smaller file sizes. MP4s are now written with the faststart flag so playback begins before the full file downloads.
  • Cursor-only ProRes export — Export just the cursor as a transparent ProRes 4444 MOV file. The display stream is skipped entirely during render so cursor-only exports stay fast regardless of recording resolution.
  • Faster, more accurate transcriptions — A new on-device transcription engine powered by Parakeet TDT runs alongside Whisper. The best available model is selected automatically, with Parakeet disabled on Intel Macs where it isn't supported. Model files download to a staging directory and swap in atomically, and the global model cache is released when the editor closes.
  • Stop recording overlay — A full-window stop button now appears on the main window while a recording is active, making it easier to end a session without hunting for the controls.
  • Faster crop dialog — Opening the crop dialog now shows an instant canvas-frame snapshot while the accurate backend frame loads in the background. If the accurate frame fails, the editor falls back gracefully to a screenshot. Timeline computation is memoized with Set-based selection lookups, sorted segment caches, and precomputed clip durations to cut overhead on long recordings.
  • Smoother cursor and zoom — New Smooth and Fast cursor animation presets join the existing options. The cursor spring simulation no longer clamps at screen edges, producing more natural motion. Zoom focus tracking uses a gentler viewport pan that keeps the cursor visible within a small margin instead of abruptly shifting.
  • Better playback prefetch — Cursor timelines and zoom interpolators are now built once outside the frame loop instead of per-frame. Buffer-gap handling no longer resets the prefetch pipeline, and frame fallback uses a unified backward-preferred lookup with a wider search window.
  • Streamlined macOS permissions — Permission requests, verification, and open-settings flows are centralized in a shared utility used by both onboarding and the main window. On Windows and Linux the permissions step is skipped entirely.
  • More reliable recording — The macOS MP4 encoder now exits cleanly when the frame queue finishes, frames submitted after finish are rejected with proper session state tracking, and the audio finish wait is extended to avoid truncated recordings in instant mode.
  • Camera and export fixes — The camera preview re-opens correctly when the same device is already active. Windows camera exports no longer show snow or artifacts thanks to proper buffer stride handling. 4K 60fps software exports no longer fail from timestamp ordering issues, with B-frames disabled in the high-throughput path and a pts/dts safety clamp before muxing.
  • Screenshot shortcut fix — The screenshot area picker shortcut no longer silently fails when recording settings are missing fields from a previous version.
Desktop0.4.81

Caption & Keyboard Tracks, Faster Exports & Stability Improvements

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  • Caption tracks in the timeline — Captions now appear as editable segments directly in the editor timeline. You can drag, trim, split, and rearrange them alongside your other tracks. Per-segment styling overrides, text tools, and presets are available in the sidebar so you can fix transcripts and fine-tune appearance without leaving the editor.
  • Keyboard press overlay — Key presses are captured during recording and shown as their own timeline track. Each segment can be edited just like captions—adjust timing, text, and styling—so keyboard shortcuts and typing stay readable in the final export.
  • New onboarding flow — The first-run experience now walks you through permissions and setup with clearer steps and better copy. Help is easier to find from the main window, including a macOS title bar shortcut, so learning the difference between Studio and Instant Mode takes seconds.
  • Faster exports — Reworked the export pipeline with cursor precomputation, encoder tuning, and better decode-render overlap. The unnecessary pre-export delay was removed, and size and time estimates are now calibrated from real-world data. GPU-accelerated NV12 encoding is used when available with an automatic CPU fallback.
  • Smoother editor playback — Improved frame cache lookups, adaptive readahead, and resolution-aware prefetch so scrubbing and playback stay responsive on longer recordings. Per-frame overhead was reduced across the board.
  • Better Windows playback — MediaFoundation decoding now uses batching and zero-copy frame handling with FFmpeg fallback when hardware decode isn't available. WebGPU prefers DirectX 12 on Windows for lower-latency rendering.
  • More reliable recording — macOS capture tracks pending timestamps and stops cleanly when the muxer can't accept more samples. Corrupt MP4s are repaired more often during upload, the camera window always hides when recording ends, and closing the app or switching devices no longer leaves stray processes behind.
  • Tighter audio–video sync — Audio drift ahead of video is now limited, timestamp offsets are deferred until video is ready, and system audio start times stay aligned with the rest of the mix.
  • Crop and padding fixes — Padding and backgrounds now respect the active crop region, so the exported frame matches what you see in the editor.
  • Improved stability — Graceful app exit with full resource cleanup, safer camera and WebSocket lifecycle handling, and hardened shutdown paths to prevent crashes on exit.
Desktop0.4.7

Faster Editor Playback, GPU-Accelerated Exports & Windows Performance

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  • Dramatically faster editor playback — Color conversion now happens entirely on the GPU, cutting data transfer by 62% and making scrubbing and playback feel significantly snappier. Frame caching and prefetch logic were also reworked so the editor stays responsive even on longer recordings.
  • GPU-accelerated exports — Exports are noticeably faster thanks to a new GPU rendering path with pipelined decoding. When GPU conversion isn't available, an optimized CPU fallback takes over automatically. Export size and time estimates are now much more accurate.
  • Windows playback performance — Switched to the native MediaFoundation decoder with zero-copy frame handling and preferred the Dx12 GPU backend, resulting in much lower latency during playback on Windows.
  • Prewarmed editor GPU pipeline — The rendering pipeline now initializes in the background at startup, so the editor is ready to play the moment you open it.
  • Better crop and padding rendering — Fixed an issue where padding and backgrounds rendered incorrectly when a crop region was applied.
  • Improved stability — Graceful shutdown handling to prevent crashes on exit, reliable camera window cleanup when recordings end, and better audio sync for long recordings.
Web

Import Your Loom Videos

Moving from Loom no longer means leaving your library behind. Paste a Loom link and Cap imports the video into your account, ready to share from a Cap link.

Features

  • One-link import - Paste a Loom video URL and Cap downloads and re-hosts it for you.
  • Everything works - Imported videos get share pages, transcription, and analytics like any other Cap.
  • Free Loom downloader - A standalone tool on cap.so lets anyone download their Loom videos, no account required.
Desktop0.4.6

Recording Resilience, Screenshot Hotkeys & Redesigned Device Selection

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  • Recording resilience and health monitoring — Cap now monitors the entire recording pipeline for issues in real time. If your camera disconnects, microphone drops out, or audio gaps are detected, the recording continues gracefully with automatic silence insertion and reconnection. A degraded state indicator lets you know when something needs attention without interrupting your flow.
  • Screenshot hotkeys — Added configurable keyboard shortcuts for capturing your entire display, a specific window, or a selected area. These can be customized in the hotkeys section of Settings.
  • Smarter screenshot editor — Window captures now use RGBA with rounded corners for a more polished look. Increasing padding or corner rounding automatically enables the background fill so your screenshot looks great without extra clicks. Styling controls are always visible in the header for faster editing.
  • Redesigned device selection — Camera and microphone inputs are now chosen through a new overlay that displays device details like format, sample rate, and wireless status. The macOS main window features native squircle corners and traffic light controls for a more integrated feel.
  • More reliable uploads — Failed upload chunks are now automatically retried with network recovery logic. Chunk sizes were reduced and concurrency increased for faster, more resilient uploads to S3.
  • Improved audio handling — Added runtime resampling and silence generation for microphones, higher buffer timeouts for wireless audio sources, and graceful handling of high channel count devices (e.g., 34-channel audio interfaces). Windows now falls back to a default audio config when no output device is available.
  • Instant mode optimizations — Instant mode recordings now use a lower bitrate and shorter keyframe interval for smaller files and faster uploads. Encoder channel pressure is tracked to prevent frame drops, and disk space is checked before recording starts.
  • Better macOS window management — Windows are now backed by NSPanel for proper state management, with position persistence across sessions for both the main and camera windows. The prewarmed overlays system was replaced with a cleaner panel-based approach.
  • Camera recovery and lifecycle — Recordings continue even if the camera disconnects mid-capture, with automatic reconnection when the device becomes available again. Camera preview pause/resume and a large camera preset for camera-only mode were also added.
  • Windows recording improvements — Added frame scaling to handle resolution changes mid-recording, improved system audio resiliency, and replaced panicking code paths with proper error propagation throughout the Windows capture and encoding pipeline.
Web

Translated Captions

Captions are no longer stuck in the language you spoke. Viewers can translate captions on the share page player and watch in the language they prefer.

Features

  • Caption translation - Pick a language from the player and captions are translated automatically.
  • Context-aware output - Translations use the surrounding transcript for better phrasing than line-by-line conversion.
Web

One-Command Self-Hosting

Self-hosting Cap is now a single command. A new Docker Compose setup brings up the full web app, database, and storage in one go, with rewritten self-hosting docs to match.

Improvements

  • docker compose up - One command starts everything Cap needs to run on your own infrastructure.
  • Clearer docs - The self-hosting guide has been rewritten with the new setup, including configuration and upgrade notes.
Desktop0.4.5

Camera Only Mode, Faster macOS Capture & Better Screenshot UX

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  • Camera Only Mode — Record video using just your camera. This mode can be toggled directly from the main window for quick, focused video capture. Both Studio and Instant Mode supported.
  • More reliable decoding and seek behavior — Added FFmpeg software fallback when hardware decoding fails, improved AVAssetReader end-of-file handling, and tuned decoder timeouts for slow seeks and initial playback.
  • Smoother exports and playback stability — Editor preview now pauses during export, keyframe distribution and frame iteration were improved, and GPU buffer resizing is more robust to reduce stalls.
  • Lower-overhead macOS frame processing — Introduced pooled pixel buffers and a dedicated copier for screen capture, then refactored frame scaling around the pool for more efficient processing.
  • Improved audio timestamp and drift handling — Reworked timestamp/drift logic in the recording and MP4 pipelines for more stable long-running audio-video sync.
  • Cleaner screenshot workflow — Target selection overlays are now hidden before capture, hidden overlays no longer block clicks, and screenshot notification audio behavior was refined.
  • Better multi-display overlay focus — Improved focus and positioning logic for target-selection overlays across multi-monitor setups.
Desktop0.4.4

Instant Mode Reliability, Prewarmed Target Picker, Multi-Display Fixes

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  • Instant mode fixes — Fixed frame scaling when display dimensions change mid-recording on macOS, clamped crop bounds to prevent negative coordinates on Windows, and ensured monotonic frame timestamps in the MP4 encoder.
  • Prewarmed target picker — The target selection overlay now loads in the background so it opens instantly when you click Record Display, Record Window, or Record Area from the main window or tray menu.
  • Multi-display window positioning — The main window, camera preview, and recording controls now appear on the display containing your cursor instead of always defaulting to the primary display. The recording controls bar also follows your cursor when moving between monitors.
  • Search and pagination for recordings — Added search fields to the recordings and screenshots settings pages, along with pagination for large libraries.
  • Tray menu screenshot support — The tray menu now includes a "Take a Screenshot" option and shows mode-aware labels when in screenshot mode.
  • Screenshot editor reliability — The screenshot editor now loads images more reliably with proper retry handling and correct path resolution for .cap project files.
Desktop0.4.3

Video Import, Advanced Compression & Smoother Animations

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  • Video import support — You can now import existing video files directly into Cap for editing and sharing. Imported videos go through the same studio workflow as recordings, letting you add zoom effects, cursor overlays, and export with Cap's compression.
  • Advanced export compression controls — Added custom bits-per-pixel settings for fine-grained control over export quality and file size. Access these options in the export panel to dial in the perfect balance for your use case.
  • Enhanced cursor and zoom interpolation — Improved spring-based animation system with better critically damped motion for smoother cursor and zoom transitions. Added screen motion blur support for more polished playback.
  • Better audio handling on Windows — Improved audio latency handling with proper Windows support. Resampling errors are now handled more gracefully to prevent export failures.
  • Decoder health monitoring — Improved decoder health checks and cache handling to detect and recover from GPU/decoder issues more reliably during playback and export.
  • macOS window improvements — Windows now properly center on screen and respect focus/activation policies for a more consistent experience.
  • Even dimension fixes — Screen capture and video scaling now ensure dimensions are always even, preventing encoding issues with certain video codecs.