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ZoomArc is a free screen recorder for Windows that automatically zooms in on your clicks and follows your cursor with smooth camera motion. It records your screen or a window at 60 fps, records the cursor separately so it can be restyled, and includes an editor for adjusting zooms and exporting the finished video.
Yes. ZoomArc is free for personal and other non-commercial use under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. For commercial use, see the contact details in the license.
Yes. ZoomArc produces the same style of polished, zoom-on-click screen recordings with a smooth cursor that Screen Studio is known for — and it runs natively on Windows.
Yes. ZoomArc works on Windows 11 and on Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) or newer, 64-bit.
Not currently. ZoomArc is Windows-only for now because its recording engine uses Windows Graphics Capture.
Yes. ZoomArc records a true 60 fps using hardware H.264 encoding, including on 120 Hz and 144 Hz displays.
ZoomArc detects your clicks, groups nearby clicks into one zoom, starts each zoom just before the click, follows your cursor while zoomed, and zooms back out once the cursor settles. Every zoom can be edited on the timeline. See Auto-Zoom and Cursor Engine.
Yes. Delete any zoom segment on the timeline, hide the Zoom layer, or add your own with Z at the playhead.
ZoomArc deliberately keeps the system cursor out of the video and records it as data instead, then redraws it in the editor. That's what lets you resize it, smooth it, replace it with a custom image, and avoid a "double cursor".
Yes. In the editor's Cursor panel, upload any image, click to set its hotspot, and optionally save it as your default cursor for new recordings. Exports use the same custom cursor.
Yes. Pick a camera and microphone on the recorder screen. The webcam appears as a movable, resizable bubble; the microphone is synced to the video.
Yes. Choose it under Windows on the recorder screen. ZoomArc keeps the cursor correctly placed even if you move the window while recording.
Click Stop recording, or press Ctrl+Shift+2 from any app.
MP4 (H.264), MOV (ProRes 4444, transparent), WebM (VP9, plus a transparent version), MKV (FFV1, lossless, transparent) and PNG sequence (transparent), at source resolution, 1080p, 1440p or 4K. See Export.
Yes. Set the aspect ratio to 9:16 in the editor header; the recording is fitted into the vertical frame without stretching.
Yes. Set the background to Transparent (the preview shows a checkerboard) and export as MOV, WebM (transparent), MKV or PNG sequence. Choosing a transparent format alone isn't enough — the background must be transparent too; ZoomArc 0.12.1+ shows a one-click Make transparent button if it isn't.
Windows' built-in video players often show transparent areas as black. The file is still transparent — open it in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects or OBS, or export WebM (transparent) and open it in Chrome.
In ZoomArc's data folder (usually %APPDATA%\ZoomArc\takes). Click Show in folder on the recorder screen to open it.
No. Recording, editing and exporting all happen locally on your computer.
Yes — 44 of them. Press ? in the editor or see Keyboard Shortcuts.
The source code is public on GitHub under the PolyForm Noncommercial license, which allows non-commercial use, modification and sharing.
Open an issue on GitHub Issues or use Help → Report an Issue in the app.
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