Kamo 0.1.0

Kamo 0.1.0 — the first take

Hit record. Click. Stop. It's already edited.

Kamo is a free, open source screen recorder that zooms in on every click, smooths your cursor and exports a video that looks like someone spent an hour editing it. Everything runs on your computer: no account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your machine unless you send it.

This is the first public release, for Windows. The Mac app and the Chrome extension are coming soon.

Download

Windows 10 (2004+) and 11, 64-bit	Kamo-0.1.0-win-x64-setup.exe below
Mac	coming soon
Chrome extension	coming soon

First launch on Windows. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway. After that, Kamo updates itself: new versions download in the background and install when you restart, never in the middle of a recording.

What's in it

Record

• The whole screen, a window or a selection you draw and resize on screen.
• Microphone, computer sound and webcam, each optional and in sync with the video. 30 or 60 fps.
• A floating bar and a tray icon to pause and stop; a global shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+2) to stop from anywhere.
• Kamo only listens to the mouse. It never captures the keyboard.
• If Kamo or Windows crashes mid-recording, the take is recovered next time, audio and camera included.

Edit

• Automatic zoom on every click, with a spring camera that eases in and out. Every zoom is a block on the timeline you can move, resize, change or delete; your own zooms are never overwritten.
• Smooth cursor with a click effect, or hidden.
• Webcam bubble in any corner or wherever you drag it, round, square, 16:9 or 9:16; it shrinks while the camera zooms. In 9:16 it can become its own card under the screen.
• Styles: wallpapers, your own image, padding, corners, shadow.
• 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16, with the frame following your clicks in the crop formats.
• Trim the start and end; undo and redo everything.
• Captions from a local transcription, in 12 styles, editable on the timeline (see below).

Export

• MP4 in 1080p or 4K, at 30 or 60 fps, hardware-encoded where available.
• GIF up to 1280 px and 15 fps, with a size estimate before you export.
• Captions burned in, or as an .srt next to the video.
• No watermark. Ever.

Organize and connect

• Local playlists on Home.
• Transcription with whisper.cpp as an optional pack (about 150 MB, downloaded only when you ask, verified with SHA-256). It runs on your computer.
• Local MCP server so Claude Code (or another agent) can read your recordings: titles, transcripts, clicks and reference frames. Read-only, no network. Settings → Connect to an agent shows how.

Everywhere

• English, Português (Brasil), Español, 简体中文 and 日本語.
• Light and dark themes, a welcome tour by Kamo, and "Copy diagnostics" for bug reports (you see the text before it goes anywhere).

Known limitations

• Windows only in this release. The Mac app and the Chrome extension are built and tested in CI but not released yet.
• Unsigned installer: expect the SmartScreen prompt above.
• Transcription packs download from this repository's packs release; if it isn't published yet, Create captions can't fetch the pack.
• @kamo/mcp isn't on npm yet. Settings shows how to run the MCP server from a source checkout meanwhile.
• The translations were written with help from AI; corrections from native speakers are very welcome.

Privacy

Kamo works fully offline. The only network requests it makes are the update check (the public release feed) and downloading a pack you asked for. No analytics, no telemetry, no account.

Thanks

Kamo stands on great open source work: see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES. Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue — Settings → Copy diagnostics helps a lot.