Changelog

• New timestamp system, overhauling and improving audio/video sync
• New border option in editor, allowing you to add a border to your screen recording
• New hardware accelerated encoding on Windows, improving performance
• New clip source offsetting, allowing you to adjust audio/video sync manually
• Improved and overhauled Shortcuts (hotkeys) implementation, with support for new recording picker
• Improved new recording picker selection (enable via Settings > Experimental)
• Fix for continuity camera querying
• Fix for deleting recordings on Windows

• New scenes feature, allowing you to make the camera fullscreen for sections of the video, or hide it
• Higher quality GIF exports
• Custom cursor capture is now enabled by default (can be disabled in Settings > Experimental)
• New camera preview is more stable
• Setting a background will now automatically add padding if there is none
• New recording flow (can be enabled in Settings > Experimental)
• New recording engine behind the scenes, allowing us a better platform to build on for future features

Signing in with email now uses a one-time code instead of a magic link. Type the code from your inbox and you are in, with no link that opens in the wrong browser or gets eaten by a link scanner.

• Opening a .cap bundle in Finder will now work properly. Studio recordings will open in the editor, and Instant recordings will open their .mp4 file in Preview.
• New 'After deleting recording behaviour' setting, providing the option for Cap's main window to be reopened after deleting an in progress recording
• A bug where the number -1 was causing recordings to fail to start has been fixed. Please let us know if you encounter an error saying that no screens or windows could be found.

The dashboard now has a notifications inbox. See when someone views, comments on, replies to, or reacts to your Caps without leaving the app.

Features

• Notification feed - Views, comments, replies, and reactions collected in one place.
• Jump to the moment - Click a notification to open the video with the relevant comment at the top.
• Read states - Notifications are marked as read when you open them.

• When exporting a video on Windows, the title will now be correctly formatted
• Fixed "Request Permission" for microphone selection on macOS during setup process
• Fixed a crash that happened when selecting a particular camera on macOS and Windows

• The error 'An error occurred Task 'camera _capture' failed: Panicked: called 'Result:unwrap0' on an Err' value: SystemTimeError' has been fixed

Your Cap library now has folders. Group recordings by project, customer, or topic instead of scrolling one long list.

Features

• Create folders - Organize the Caps page into folders right from the dashboard.
• Move Caps in - Add recordings to a folder and open it to browse them in place.

• Handles failures during screen recording more gracefully, displaying extra information for debugging
• Audio will export properly even if a source file is cut short
• Reduces instances of New Recording window being blank
• Screen scaling is now handled properly for display capture on Windows
• Removes window decorations from all windows on Windows

• Custom domains are now shown in the editor for shareable links
• Camera now has 'Source' aspect ratio option, instead of being locked to 'Square'
• Editor now shows waveforms for audio tracks
• Editor can now export as GIF
• Recording now exits early if screen capture doesn't produce any frames for a period of time

• Improved recording names on Windows
• Added 'c' shortcut to cut clip at mouse position

Caps can now be embedded on any website. Grab the embed code from the share dialog and drop the player into docs, wikis, or your own pages.

Features

• Embed code - The share dialog has a new tab with a ready-to-paste iframe snippet.
• Clean player - Embeds show just the video player, sized to fit wherever you place it.
• Copy or download transcripts - Transcripts on the share page can now be copied to the clipboard or downloaded as a file.

Spaces are shared collections inside your organization. Create a space for a team or project, add the right people, and drop Caps into it for everyone to see.

Features

• Create spaces - Set up as many spaces as you need from the dashboard sidebar.
• Members - Add and remove organization members per space, so each space is visible to exactly the right people.
• Shared libraries - Caps added to a space show up for every member of that space.

• Fixes padding and cursor size changing when changing export resolution
• Improved text readability in editor

• Capture target is now included in recording name
• Fixes custom S3 support for Cloudflare by using presigned PUT requests
• Fixes camera preview being out of sync with some devices
• System audio capture flag has been removed, it is now available by default

Transcripts are no longer read-only. Fix names, jargon, and mistakes directly on the share page, and your corrections show for every viewer.

Features

• Edit any line - Click into the transcript to correct the text in place.

Improvements

• Player UX - A round of usability improvements to the share page video player.

Two additions to your library today: lock any Cap behind a password, and upload existing videos straight from the dashboard.

Features

• Password-protected Caps - Set a password on a video and viewers must enter it before watching. Even the title stays hidden without access.
• Upload videos - Bring existing recordings into Cap with the new upload button in your dashboard. Uploaded videos get share pages like any other Cap.

Improvements

• Player polish - Chapters are better integrated into the player, alongside general UI tweaks.

• Split clips can now be deleted in the editor
• Cursor position is more accurate when display is being cropped
• Authentication now uses long-lived tokens, which should alleviate sign in errors
• New "License" tab in settings to better manage your Cap license

Cap AI writes the boring parts for you. After a recording is transcribed, Cap generates a title, a summary, and chapters automatically. Rolling out gradually.

Features

• Automatic titles - New Caps get a descriptive name instead of a timestamp.
• Summary tab - A concise summary of the recording appears on the share page.
• Chapters - The player is split into chapters so viewers can jump to the part they need.