Changelog

Features

• API keys for the CLI - Generate API keys from your account settings on the Cap dashboard and set the CAP_API_KEY environment variable to authenticate the Cap CLI without a browser login. This makes it possible to run Cap in CI, on remote servers, and with agents in headless environments. You can list and revoke your keys from the dashboard at any time.
• Confirm before recording without a microphone - Cap now asks for confirmation before starting a recording when no microphone is selected or the selected microphone is unavailable, so you never finish a take only to find it silent. It is on by default and can be turned off in Settings under General.
• Exclude floating panels from recordings on macOS - The excluded-windows picker in Settings now lists floating accessory panels, like quick launchers and utility palettes, so you can keep them out of your recordings too.

Fixes

• Recordings with a damaged mic track open again - A recording whose microphone audio file was empty or unreadable previously refused to open in the editor at all. The editor now opens the recording without the mic audio and logs a warning instead, and exports still validate audio strictly so a track is never silently dropped from a final file.
• Memory growth while idle on macOS - Routine permission checks queried the display list every few seconds and leaked a small amount of memory each time, which could add up to significant usage over long sessions. This is fixed, along with smaller leaks in camera enumeration, display name and scale lookups, microphone device names, and the mic volume meter.
• Recording start feedback - Clicking record from the target picker now shows a loading state immediately instead of appearing to do nothing while the recording starts.
• Window screenshots on Windows - Taking a screenshot of a window no longer fails because the picker window closed itself before the capture was dispatched.
• Editor playback with background music - Playback audio now works when your timeline has music but no recorded audio track.
• Mic volume meter accuracy - The microphone level meter no longer stalls or grows memory when an audio device's capture clock freezes.

Performance

• Lighter instant recordings on macOS - Instant recordings now capture at a size matched to the output resolution instead of the display's full Retina resolution, reducing CPU and memory use on high-density displays.
• Faster camera preview during instant recordings - The camera preview streams frames in a more efficient format while instant recording, lowering preview overhead.

Features

• Live transcript while uploading - Viewers who open a share link mid-upload see the transcript appear live as the recording is spoken, then hand off seamlessly to the final version.
• Instant transcript at load - Landing on a finished Cap shows the transcript immediately instead of a processing spinner.
• Live captions on the player - Captions are available on the share page player as soon as they exist, without restarting playback.
• Transcript tab front and center - Landing on the share page right after stopping a recording opens the Transcript tab automatically.

Features

• New dashboard and library - Redesigned tabs with a cleaner shell and a floating glass tab bar for browsing your Caps.
• Refreshed recording and uploads - An extended record screen with clearer upload status, background upload queueing, and progress toasts.
• Redesigned Cap detail and sharing - A new detail view with quicker sharing, and shared Caps open straight into fullscreen playback.
• Sign in with Apple - Apple sign-in joins the existing login options.
• Loom import - Bring your Loom videos into Cap from your phone.
• Account and analytics - New account settings and per-Cap analytics screens.

Features

• Cap works end to end with AI agents - Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, and any shell-capable agent can now use Cap through the expanded CLI, installable Cap skill, and local MCP server. After a secure browser login, your agent can record, export, upload, and share; read titles, transcripts, AI summaries, chapters, comments, reactions, views, permissions, and processing state; search and organize your library; inspect analytics; and manage collaboration, teams, storage, migrations, and developer workflows without using the dashboard. Commands return machine-readable JSON, changes require your confirmation, and secrets stay out of chat and MCP. Set up Cap for your agent with one copy-paste prompt.
• Built-in teleprompter - Open a dedicated teleprompter from the main window, paste or type your script, and control auto-scroll speed, text size, opacity, cue markers, and mirrored text. Your script and settings are saved between sessions, the window stays above other apps, and Cap keeps it out of recordings on macOS and Windows.
• Clip transitions - Add crossfades or fades through black between clips, then adjust the transition length directly from the timeline. Transitions are included in editor playback and final exports.
• Expandable capture window with Recents - Expand the main window for a roomier capture setup with clearer camera, microphone, and system-audio controls, plus a carousel of recent recordings and screenshots that open in one click. Cap remembers your preferred window size, and macOS 26 uses the native Liquid Glass appearance.
• Reusable area capture - Area recording now includes quick aspect-ratio presets, fill and reset controls, and the option to lock a region for future recordings. The controls stay outside the selected area so they do not cover what you are capturing.
• Blur and pixelate masks - Sensitive-area masks can now use either a smooth blur or pixelation, with adjustable strength for each effect.
• Audio controls for retimed clips - When slowing down or speeding up a clip, choose whether to mute its audio, preserve natural voice pitch, or let the pitch follow the playback speed.
• Copyable app version - Click the version number in Settings to copy it when reporting an issue or checking which build is installed.

Fixes

• Windows pause and resume reliability - Pausing a recording for more than a few seconds no longer triggers a false hardware-encoder timeout when you resume.
• Camera background blur startup - Packaged desktop builds now locate the bundled background-blur runtime correctly, making camera blur initialize more reliably.
• Existing recording imports on Windows - The clips sidebar can now select Cap recording folders correctly when importing an existing recording.
• Safer macOS window positioning - The main window is kept below the menu bar and display notch so its controls remain reachable.
• Clearer crop editing - Crop guides have stronger contrast against both light and dark recording backgrounds.

Performance

• Smoother playback and scrubbing - The editor cancels outdated frame work sooner, keeps active decoders ready across seeks, and avoids prefetching frames that are already behind the playhead.
• Faster media lists - Recordings and screenshots reuse their calculated sort times, reducing repeated filesystem work when loading the library and Recents.

Features

• Mute your mic mid-recording - The mic icon in the recording bar is now a mute toggle during instant recordings, so you can silence your microphone without stopping the recording. System audio keeps recording as normal.
• Nightly update channel - Opt into nightly builds from Settings to get the newest changes early. Nightly updates install automatically in the background and prompt you to restart when ready, and switching back to stable returns you to the latest stable release.
• 24 and 25 FPS capture options - The max capture framerate setting now includes 24 and 25 FPS for film and PAL-friendly workflows.

Fixes

• Recordings no longer stop after a few seconds - Reopening the recording bar for a new instant recording could carry over stale state from a previous session and trip the recording limit almost immediately. The bar now fully resets between recordings.
• Recording start clicks no longer vanish - Clicking record from the target picker could silently do nothing while the windows closed around it. The click is now handled reliably, and if a recording fails to start, the main window reappears with a clear error message.
• Slow-motion recordings repaired - Recordings on high-refresh-rate Windows monitors could come out stretched and out of sync with their audio. New recordings capture at the correct speed, and affected existing recordings are automatically repaired when opened in the editor, keeping the original file as a backup.
• Better mic sync - Microphone timestamps now account for measured input latency, macOS resolves the correct input device when measuring it, and a macOS timestamp conversion bug affecting audio alignment has been fixed.
• Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI fixes - Windows now restore, center, and follow correctly across monitors with different display scaling, overlays size correctly on HiDPI Windows setups, and moving a window between monitors with different scaling no longer breaks its layout.
• Update toast fits the window - The "update installed, restart to apply" toast no longer overflows the main window and clips its text and buttons.
• Integrations page when signed out - The integrations settings page no longer errors when you are not signed in.

Features

• Custom recordings folder - Choose where Cap saves local recordings from Settings.
• Manual scene layout - Drag and resize the screen, camera, text, masks, and captions directly on the canvas, with snapping guides for cleaner placement.
• Floating scene mode - Build layouts where screen and camera elements can float independently instead of being locked to the previous scene presets.
• Decorative frames - Add frame styling around recordings and adjust frame settings from the player toolbar.
• Better text editing - Text boxes resize more naturally, preserve font sizing separately from the box, choose readable colors automatically, and open inline editing right after you add a text segment.
• Faster timeline edits - New text and track segments are created at the playhead, selected immediately, and placed with fewer extra clicks.
• Clearer zoom editing - Automatic and manual zoom segments are labeled, locked zoom areas explain how to edit them, and zoom behavior is easier to tune.
• Smoother cursor, zoom, and motion blur - Zooms now use spring-based motion, re-aim more accurately from cursor movement, reach screen corners better, and render cursor and display motion blur more naturally.

Fixes

• A/V sync fixes - Recording, encoding, playback, and editor preview timestamps have been hardened so audio and video stay aligned more reliably.
• System audio fixes - Windows system audio stays on the recording timeline even when audio is intermittent or silent.
• macOS microphone fix - 96 kHz microphones on macOS no longer produce incorrect audio duration in recordings.
• Windows recording fixes - The target picker no longer leaves ghost overlays after recording, preview sync is more accurate, and hardware H.264 encoders are tested before recording uses them.
• Screenshot clipboard fix - Copied screenshots on Windows use a white background when needed instead of showing transparency artifacts.
• Upload recovery fixes - Desktop upload finalization can retry final segment manifests, recover Google Drive uploads more reliably, and rotate failed recovery candidates.
• Changelog and license fixes - Settings pages now handle API responses more reliably, refresh license state correctly, and keep changelog rendering errors contained.
• Camera and GPU recovery fixes - macOS camera capture can fall back when the system returns no frames, graphics recovery only runs for relevant startup failures, and restarting after a discarded recording stays responsive.
• Camera privacy fix - Opening the editor releases the idle camera feed so the OS camera indicator does not stay on unnecessarily.
• Mic error UX - Missing microphone errors now show a toast instead of blocking the recording flow.
• Editor interaction fixes - The playhead snaps cleanly to the timeline origin, masks no longer show unwanted fill tints, and add-track popovers close and restore focus correctly.

Performance

• Faster editor launch - App windows show earlier with the right background color, the first frame is pre-rendered, waveforms lazy-load, and editor layout handshakes are warmed before opening.
• Faster playback start - Background audio decoding, persistent audio output, progressive audio pre-rendering, and bounded buffering reduce the wait after pressing play.
• Faster rendering and export setup - Screen and camera decoders initialize together, background audio decodes finish before export, and file exports skip unnecessary transparency scans.
• Smoother app startup - Fonts and emoji warm at app mount, bundled fonts render more consistently, and window-open fade animations were removed to avoid slow-looking transitions.

Features

• Screenshot sharing - Upload screenshots directly from the screenshot editor or automations. The editor copies the share link after upload, automation rules can copy or open it, and rendered PNG or JPEG uploads preserve your annotations, crop, padding, background, and style settings.
• Desktop automations - Create rules in Settings that run after screenshots, recordings, uploads, imports, and deleted recordings. Automations can copy, save, export, upload, open files, read screenshot text, show notifications, open or skip the editor, apply presets, run commands, send webhooks, and delete local files.
• CLI automation support - CLI screenshots, finished recordings, and uploads can now run compatible desktop automation rules, and cap doctor can report automation rule counts.
• Linux CLI and capture support - Linux support has been expanded across the CLI, desktop capture, native X11 recording, tray icons, package dependencies, and release handling.
• Clips and in-editor recording - Record new clips from inside the editor, view clip thumbnails, see clip counts, and manage clip-based edits more easily.
• Audio library and music tracks - Add bundled music or imported audio to a recording, edit audio segments on the timeline, and mix music tracks into MP4 exports.
• Caption styling and exports - Apply caption presets, animations, and highlight styles, track caption model download progress, and export captions as SRT or VTT.
• Manual caption positioning - Drag captions directly in the preview and place them exactly where you want them.
• Better transcript editing - Edit transcript words and create captions from transcript text more easily.
• Improved captions - Caption segmentation, punctuation, text fitting, source-timed captions, and final rendering are more accurate.
• Live crop preview - The crop flow now includes a live GPU preview with a clearer side-by-side layout.
• Better screenshot workflows - New screenshots start transparent, screenshot OCR works in automations, images can be imported from the system tray, and transparent screenshot exports stay transparent.
• Content protection while recording - Desktop window content protection turns on when recording starts and turns off when recording stops.
• Plan-based instant mode resolution - Instant mode resolution now follows the user's plan.

Fixes

• More reliable screenshot uploads - Screenshot uploads can reuse an existing share link when the rendered content has not changed, and automation uploads now use the dedicated screenshot upload path.
• Recording finalization fixes - Recording startup, stop, dead CLI sessions, incomplete project validation, and editor imports after recording finish are handled more reliably.
• Caption reliability fixes - Caption settings load more safely, source-timed captions survive import and editing, long transcription jobs are less likely to exhaust memory, and caption project folders are detected more reliably.
• Screenshot and crop fixes - Transparent screenshot exports stay transparent, screenshot previews wait for their first paint, and image imports no longer wake the main window unnecessarily.
• Rendering artifact fixes - Per-clip camera size, display aspect ratio, cursor highlights, and source-timed captions render more accurately.
• Multi-monitor Windows fixes - Capture area sizing and target picker overlays behave more reliably on HiDPI and multi-monitor Windows setups.
• Target picker overlay fixes - Target picker overlays restore correctly after Settings, clean up on recording start and stop, and avoid stealing focus.
• Offscreen window recovery - The main window and Settings window recentre themselves if they would otherwise open offscreen.
• Linux recording fixes - Linux capture handles display geometry, missing active displays, WebKit rendering issues, and corrupted PipeWire frames more reliably.
• Camera preview fixes - Camera preview fallbacks are safer, low-RAM machines use a lighter preview profile, and routine disconnects are less noisy.
• Offline sharing fixes - Sharing while offline now shows a clearer error and avoids duplicate dialogs.
• Updater fixes - Update checks use platform-specific endpoints and show clearer fallback download behavior.
• Crash marker fix - Crash reporting is more accurate when the previous desktop session ended unexpectedly.

Performance

• Faster screenshot editor startup - Screenshot rendering starts faster, backgrounds are cached, wallpaper previews warm before selection, and the editor waits for first paint before showing previews.
• Faster camera previews - Camera preview rendering does less unnecessary frame work, handles websocket previews more efficiently, and supports low-spec preview limits.
• Smaller background snapshots - Desktop background snapshots are capped, compressed, and healed when oversized to reduce project size and memory use.
• Faster editor timelines - Off-screen timeline segments are virtualized for smoother editing in larger projects.
• Faster crop previews - Crop previews use downscaled frames so crop editing feels more responsive.
• Faster editor startup - Editor startup, screenshot rendering, and audio repair now run more work in parallel.

• Tab, screen, window, and camera recording - Capture the current browser tab, your full screen, a single window, or record camera-only video for quick updates.
• Instant share links - Recordings upload to your Cap library as you record, so the link is live the second you stop.
• Camera bubble - Keep a webcam overlay on the page while you record for walkthroughs and demos.
• Microphone and camera pickers - Choose your devices from the on-page recorder panel, with system audio where Chrome supports it.
• Countdown before recording - A short pre-roll countdown runs before capture starts, and you can cancel at any point during it.
• Microphone check - Cap warns you before recording starts if your selected microphone is not picking up any sound.
• Draw on the page - Turn on drawing mode from the recording bar to annotate the page while you record.
• Quick dashboard access - Jump straight to your Cap library from the recorder panel.