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Capptivo 1.0.0 — Give your demos the spotlight they deserve

Today Capptivo is out. A free, open-source screen recorder and demo editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux — local-first, no account, no subscription. Record a flow. Polish the zooms, cursor, and look. Add captions. Export. Done.

Platforms & distribution

Capptivo ships native installers for:

  • macOS 13.0+ — Apple Silicon (aarch64) and Intel (x64)
  • Windows 10 (build 1903 / May 2019) and newer — x64
  • Linux with PipeWire 1.0+ (e.g. Ubuntu 24.04+) — X11 and Wayland

Capture stays native per OS: ScreenCaptureKit + VideoToolbox (macOS), Windows.Graphics.Capture with NVENC / QuickSync / AMF / Media Foundation (Windows), and xdg-desktop-portal + PipeWire (Linux). System audio uses SCK, WASAPI loopback, or Pulse/PipeWire monitor respectively. Custom area capture is available on macOS and Windows; on Linux pick display/window in the portal dialog and crop in the editor if needed.

Features

Recording

  • Menubar / tray recorder with global hotkey (⌥⇧R / Alt+Shift+R)
  • Capture display, window, or custom area (live frame guide; area pick on macOS & Windows)
  • Face-cam overlay while recording
  • Microphone capture (device picker)
  • System audio capture
  • UI language switch (English / Français / Español / Italiano / Deutsch / Português / Русский / 日本語 / 한국어 / 中文 / العربية)
  • Countdown before start
  • Pause / resume
  • On-screen annotations while recording
  • Native pipeline per OS → hardware H.264 → crash-safe fragmented MP4
  • 60 Hz cursor + click track saved with the project (cursor.json)

Annotations

Draw on top of the screen while recording — floating toolbar, click-through when idle. On macOS the overlay stays with you across Spaces and displays.

  • Select tool (pass clicks through to the desktop)
  • Pen and highlighter
  • Eraser
  • Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow
  • Text
  • Color palette + custom picker
  • Brush size
  • Undo / redo / clear all
  • Draggable toolbar; Escape peels panels then closes

Zoom & motion

  • Zoom fragments on the timeline (add with Z or Add fragment)
  • Auto-suggest zooms from clicks when you open a fresh recording (or Add fragment → Suggest zooms)
  • Follow-cursor zoom (pans with the pointer; Wayland when portal cursor Metadata is available)
  • Fixed zoom regions (drag / resize the frame)
  • Scope: recording only or full scene (background included)
  • Scale, pan smoothness, ease in / ease out
  • Shrink background padding during zoom
  • Shrink face-cam during zoom (size at peak zoom)
  • Automatic motion between fragments

Cursor

  • Show / hide composited cursor
  • Styles: macOS, Tahoe, Tahoe inverted, Minimal
  • Cursor size
  • Motion blur
  • Click bounce + bounce speed
  • Cursor sway

Look & composition

  • Backgrounds: image presets, gradients, solid colors, or upload your own (custom images persist across projects)
  • Custom gradient angle / colors
  • Named editor presets — save / apply look, face cam, cursor, captions, and export settings
  • Screen content crop (hide chrome / clutter)
  • Video padding
  • Recording corner radius
  • Recording shadow
  • Background blur
  • Background darkness

Face cam

  • Round or rectangular PiP
  • Mirror webcam
  • Corner position + margin from the frame edge
  • Size / width / height
  • Roundness (rectangular)
  • Shadow intensity
  • Crop face cam
  • Layout that stays in sync with zoom (optional shrink during zoom)

Captions

  • On-device speech-to-text (Whisper via whisper.cpp)
  • Downloadable model, no cloud required (needs a system whisper-cli binary)
  • Generate, style, and burn captions into preview + export

Timeline

  • Scrub and play the composition
  • Zoom fragments (add, suggest from clicks, select, resize, split, delete)
  • Trim gaps (add with T)
  • Undo / redo
  • Timeline zoom (auto / manual)
  • Reset fragments

Export

  • Formats: MP4, WebM, GIF
  • Resolution presets (low → original)
  • Encoding quality / GIF color quality
  • Frame rate (24 / 30 / 60)
  • Optional voice enhancement (podcast)
  • Progress UI, save dialog, notification + reveal in Finder / Explorer / file manager

Built for real desks

  • 11 UI languages, light / dark / system theme
  • Native capture per OS (ScreenCaptureKit, Windows.Graphics.Capture, PipeWire)
  • AGPL-3.0 — free forever, yours to fork and improve

Get started

  1. Download the installer for your platform below
  2. Grant Screen Recording (and mic/camera if you use them)
  3. Hit ⌥⇧R / Alt+Shift+R (or the tray icon) → record → polish → export
Platform Installer
macOS Apple Silicon .dmg / .app.tar.gz (aarch64)
macOS Intel .dmg / .app.tar.gz (x64)
Windows .msi or setup .exe
Linux .deb / .AppImage / .rpm

macOS builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarized. First launch: right-click → Open, or allow under Privacy & Security. Grant Screen Recording, then quit and reopen Capptivo.

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Capptivo.app
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