Record. Edit. Share. Cap has three recording modes: Instant, Studio, and Screenshot.
One open source app for every way you capture your screen. Start free and move to Cap Pro when you need more, whether you work alone, with a small team, or across an entire organization.
How Cap works: Instant Mode, Studio Mode, and the editor
Share your screen in seconds
Hit record and Cap uploads as you go. The moment you stop, a share link is on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere.
Learn moreFull quality, edited before you share
Record locally in 4K with separate screen, camera, and mic tracks. Polish with backgrounds, automatic zoom, and cursor effects in the built in editor.
Learn moreScreenshots that look designed
Capture any window with a hotkey, beautify it with one click, and copy it straight to your clipboard.
Learn moreOne link does the rest
Every capture gets a Cap page with comments, reactions, transcript, and chapters. Viewers watch in the browser. No download, no account.
Learn moreCap has 3 modes
One app for every workflow
Record and share with Instant, edit your videos with Studio, or capture and customize images with Screenshot.
Download Cap freeFrom recording to shared in one step
- 1Press record. Cap uploads while you talk, so there is nothing to wait for.
- 2Press stop. The share link is already on your clipboard.
- 3Paste it anywhere. Viewers watch in the browser, no account needed.
Best for
Bug reports, quick answers, async standups
Full quality, polished before anyone sees it
- 1Record locally in 4K. Screen, camera, and mic each get their own track.
- 2The editor opens when you stop: backgrounds, auto zoom, cursor effects, captions.
- 3Export in 4K, or share it as a Cap link like everything else.
Best for
Product demos, tutorials, launch videos
Stills that look designed
- 1Hit the hotkey and grab any window or area.
- 2Beautify with one click: background, padding, shadow.
- 3It's on your clipboard, ready to paste or share as a link.
Best for
Docs, pull requests, social posts
Instant Mode
Share your screen or webcam instantly
Hit record, stop, and share. Your video is live with a title, summary, chapters, and transcript, all written for you.
- Instant linksShareable URL, immediately
- Background uploadUploads while you record
- Auto transcriptionCaptions on every recording
- AI summariesTitles and descriptions
- Smart chaptersAuto segmented timeline
- Browser viewingNo downloads required
Studio Mode
Record in full quality, edit before you share
Studio records at the highest quality straight to your device, with no compression and no upload. Then blur what is private, switch scenes between screen and camera, add text and captions, and set the look before anyone sees it.
- Custom backgroundsGradients, wallpapers, colours
- Adjustable paddingScale from 0% to 40%
- Blur sensitive areasMask, pixelate, or highlight
- Scenes and split screenCamera only, split, or floating
- Text and captionsAnimated titles, local captions
- Cursor effectsSizing, smoothing, click effects
Studio Mode · The editor
Polish it before anyone sees it
Studio Mode opens straight into an editor made for screen recordings. Blur what is private, switch scenes between screen and camera, add text and captions, grade the color, and export in 4K or as a link.
Blur what is private
Drop a mask over a password, an email, or a face and choose blur or pixelate. Or flip it to a highlight that dims everything else.
Text that animates
Titles, lower thirds, big stats, and typewriter callouts as stackable tracks, with fade, slide, pop, or typewriter in and out.
Scenes for screen and camera
Switch any stretch of the timeline to camera only, hide camera, split screen, or floating cards, each with its own transition.
Automatic zoom
Generate zooms from your recorded clicks, or draw your own from 1x to 4.5x with a fixed focal point.
Captions, generated locally
Transcribe on your machine in 19 languages, fix the words, style them, and burn them in with the active word highlighted.
3D camera moves
Tilt the frame into perspective and glide, sweep, or pull back across it with focus blur.
Any canvas, one recording
Wallpapers, gradients, or your own image, then padding, corners, shadows, and a macOS, Windows, browser, or MacBook frame.
Color grades
Cinematic, Noir, Vintage, Frost, Golden, Midnight, Vivid, or Dreamy, then dial exposure, contrast, and vignette.
Clips, speed, and music
Trim, split, reorder, speed up to 8x, crossfade between clips, and lay a track from the built in library underneath.
Screenshot Mode
Capture, beautify, share
One hotkey grabs the window, and the same editing tools that polish your videos turn the still into something worth pasting.
- Beautiful backgroundsGradients, wallpapers, solid colours
- Adjustable paddingClean spacing around the capture
- Rounded cornersSquircle or rounded styles
- Shadow and bordersDepth without the fuss
- Annotation toolsArrows, shapes, text, masks
- Instant copy and saveOne click to clipboard or file
Why Cap
Built for how you actually work
We obsessed over the details so you do not have to. Every feature here exists to save you time and make you look good.
Your storage, your rules
Connect your own Google Drive or S3 bucket, use Cap Cloud, or keep everything local. You are never locked into our infrastructure.
Privacy by default, sharing by choice
Share publicly or privately, password protect the sensitive ones, or keep a recording on your machine and never upload it at all.
Async collaboration that works
Comments, reactions, and transcripts keep the conversation moving. See who watched and turn a recording into the next step, not another meeting.
Cross platform for your whole team
Native apps for macOS and Windows that feel at home on each, plus a Chrome extension when recording in the browser is the right call.
Quality that makes you look good
4K recording, 60fps capture, and compression smart enough to keep the file sizes sane.
Truly open source
See exactly how Cap works, contribute the feature you need, or self host the whole thing. No black boxes.
Cap AI does the busywork
Titles, summaries, clickable chapters, and transcripts write themselves for every recording, with no usage limits on Pro.
Import your Loom videos
Switching from Loom? Bring your existing library across with the built in importer and keep everything in one place.
Open source
Your recordings. Actually yours.
Cap is open source, and every recording goes exactly where you say. Use Cap Cloud, point it at your own bucket or Drive, or self host the whole thing.
“Cap is one of my favorite pieces of software I've used in the recent years. Best part is you get to own your data since they're fully open-source + via their S3 integration.”
Steven TeyFounder, Dub.coOpen source
Every line is on GitHub. Audit it, fork it, or contribute the feature you need.
SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001
Independently audited controls behind Cap Cloud.
HIPAA compliant
Signed BAAs for organizations handling PHI.
No lock in
Recordings are plain video files. Take them anywhere, any time.
Every platform
Native on Mac, Windows and Linux
A real desktop app on all three, with the same recorder, editor, and share link. Plus a Chrome extension for the browser and a CLI for everything else.
Chrome extensionRecord a tab or your whole screen without leaving the browser.Built for developersRecord, export, and publish from the terminal, the API, or the MCP server.$ cap record start --mode studio --duration 30$ cap export ./recording.cap --quality 4k$ cap upload ./recording.mp4 --json{ "url": "https://cap.so/s/x7f2k9" }Cap for Agents
Your agent can record, share, and read Caps
Cap ships a CLI and a local MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, or any shell capable agent can record your screen, upload the result, and read back the transcript and summary. One pasted prompt installs everything, and the agent asks before anything records, uploads, or costs money.
- CLI
- MCP server
- JSON on every command
- REST API
- Agent docs
One prompt to set up
Paste one prompt from the docs and your agent installs the CLI, the Cap skill, and the MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
$ cap agents install --target claude --component allEvery command speaks JSON
Add one flag and the answer comes back as data. Recording and export stream NDJSON events as they happen.
$ cap guide --json76 MCP tools, zero secrets
Read and manage Caps, comments, sharing, and analytics over MCP. Capture and upload stay in the CLI, so no secret passes through the model.
$ cap mcp serveLeast privilege login
Sign in with the creator profile by default, and the agent asks before anything records, uploads, or costs money.
$ cap auth login
$ cap record start --screen 1 --mode instant --duration 20 --json$ cap upload ./recording.cap --export --name "Checkout bug repro" --json
Record in the background, stop it later, and upload a .cap or .mp4 for a link. Works from any shell, script, or agent tool call.
Read the agent docsTestimonials
Loved by builders, trusted by teams
Join the thousands who made Cap their daily driver for showing work instead of writing about it.
I've been testing Cap.so for no other reason than some old habits die hard for this former software analyst. Whew that UI is so polished and crispy. Between the open source code, self hosted vids, editing features and price point -- gone give Loom some competition 🤞🏽
Olivia@olivialawson.coSuch a great Open source project. I will never install OBS again
CJ@cjkihlI've been looking for *ages* for a screen recording app that does the job + allows to zoom in/out easily and @Cap is AWESOME! Free, cross-platform, fully-featured, open-source. I mean...unless you love spending +$200 for recording your screen, use Cap!
evening kid@eveningkidTip for people that need to make screen recordings: Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share in seconds.
Roger Mattos@_rogermattosNo brainer instant purchase this morning: was looking for a solid screen recorder, for my new MacBook Pro, gave @cap a try, got myself a license within 10 mins — flawless UX sometimes speaks louder than lengthy marketer's words !
Greg_Ld@Greg__LDUsed @cap. Holy smokes this product delivers and it delivers hard The whole experience from recording to the editor part is pretty sweet
Rohith Gilla@gillarohithhey @richiemcilroy , cap is hands down one of the best oss i've used, so much so i've uninstalled loom and screen studio :) can you please bring up the video cut and playback speed adjust feature soon , can't wait to try it on, you guys are doing great cheers!
Hrushi@BorhadeHrushiTried @Cap v 0.3.beta and found an issue while exporting video. Wrote to @richiemcilroy about the problem and ~40 mins later the issue is fixed. I'm sold. Checkout Cap.so
Bilal Budhani@BilalBudhaniSelf-hosted Loom. The future is awesome 👉🏽
diana@pixelswithinPricing
Simple, honest pricing
Start free, upgrade when you need more. Early adopter pricing locked in forever.
Trusted by 50,000+ users
A commercial licence for the Cap desktop app, with unlimited local recording and editing.
Or $29 a year if you would rather pay as you go.
Get Desktop License- Commercial usage rights
- Unlimited local recordings & editing
- Studio Mode with full editor
- 20 cloud shareable links / month (up to 5 min each)
- Export to any format
- Community support
Everything in Desktop plus unlimited cloud features for sharing and collaboration.
Billed monthly. Switch to annual for $8.16 a month.
Get Started- Everything in Desktop License
- Unlimited cloud storage & bandwidth
- Auto-generated titles, summaries, clickable chapters, and transcriptions for every recording
- SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001 compliant
- Custom domain (cap.yourdomain.com)
- Password protected shares
- Viewer analytics & engagement
- Team workspaces
- Loom video importer
- Custom S3 bucket & Google Drive support
- Priority support & early features
What is the difference between Cap Pro and Desktop License?
Cap Pro is a paid plan that includes all the features of the Desktop License plus cloud features for seamless sharing and collaboration. Desktop License grants you commercial usage rights for a single user.
Is there a free version?
Yes! Cap is 100% free for personal use. You can record and share locally with Studio Mode. A paid plan is required for commercial usage.
How long can I record for on the free version?
Studio Mode lets you record locally without a time limit. Free cloud shareable links are limited to 5 minutes each.
How does Cap AI work?
Cap AI is a powerful tool that can be used to generate titles, summaries, clickable chapters, and transcriptions for your recordings. It's available for all Cap Pro users and has no usage limits.
How is Cap different from Loom?
Cap gives you the best of both worlds: the simplicity of Loom with the power of professional tools. We're open source, support custom storage, offer better pricing, and our desktop app works offline. Plus, you actually own your content. Already using Loom? Our built-in Loom video importer makes switching effortless.
What happens to my recordings if I cancel?
Your recordings are yours forever. If you cancel Pro, existing shares remain active and you can always export everything. Downgrade to our free plan to keep recording locally, or self-host to maintain all features.
Do you offer team plans?
Yes! Cap Pro includes team workspaces where you can organize recordings, manage permissions, and collaborate. Volume discounts available for teams over 10 users. Contact us for custom enterprise features.
Which platforms do you support?
Native desktop apps for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux, plus a Chrome extension. View your shareable links from anywhere.
Can I use Cap for commercial purposes?
Absolutely! Any paid plan (Desktop License or Cap Pro) includes full commercial usage rights. Use Cap for client work, sell courses, or embed recordings anywhere. The free version is for personal use only.
Is my data secure?
Security is core to Cap. Cap is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliant, and as an open source project, our code is fully auditable and transparent — you can see exactly how your data is handled. You can connect your own storage or self-host Cap for more control over your recordings.
What about SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance?
Cap is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliant, with signed BAAs available for organizations handling PHI. Cap Pro also lets you bring your own storage, including custom S3 buckets in any region or your own Google Drive, for GDPR compliance. For teams that want complete control, our self-hosted option keeps everything on your own infrastructure.
Switching from Loom
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