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Smart zoom, cursor smoothing, and silence cuts happen while you record. By the time you stop, the demo is mostly done.
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See it work
From raw capture to ready-to-send, in the time it took to record.
The same thirty seconds. One with the OS recorder. One with Recast. Padding, cursor smoothing, smart zoom, and silence cuts already applied.
Smart zoom Cursor smoothing Silence trim
- GPLv3 open source
- Tauri + Rust
- No telemetry
- Files never leave your machine
- No account required
Built on tools makers trust
Why not the built-in recorder
Your OS recorder stops at a file.
Every laptop ships a screen recorder. None of them ship a demo. The space between a raw capture and something worth sending is the entire job Recast does for you.
Built-in recorder
Recast
A raw .mp4 dumped on your desktop
A polished demo, framed and padded
A jittery, distracting cursor
Cursor smoothed and snapped to targets
Re-pick region, window, mic, camera every take
Saved recording profiles, one shortcut to switch
You, manually trimming in iMovie
Trim, zoom, and backgrounds, all built in
Manual export, upload, and link-fetching
One click to your Drive, share-link in hand
Step 1 · Record
Hit record. That's the whole setup.
Pick a region, a window, or your full screen, then start capturing with one shortcut. No projects to configure. No codecs to pick. No account to create.
- Recording profiles Save capture presets (region + window + camera + mic) and switch with one shortcut. Investor demo, changelog clip, tutorial: pick the profile, hit record.
- Pause & resume mid-take A knock at the door no longer means re-recording. Paused spans are trimmed cleanly out of the final video.
- Camera + mic + system audio Capture any combination on one timeline. Per-source device picking and a floating webcam bubble with shape, border, and follow-cursor motion.
Step 2 · Auto-polish
The editing happens while you record.
Cursor smoothing, padding, backgrounds, zoom, and silence cuts happen while you record. By the time you stop, the demo is mostly done. Open the timeline only when you want to nudge something, and even then, it's the lightest editor you've ever opened.
Cursor refinement
Velocity smoothing kills twitchy paths and snaps to interactive targets.
Auto layouts
Padding, backgrounds, and framing applied live as you record.
Smart zoom
Recast zooms toward the action so viewers never miss the point.
Trim & ship
Cut dead frames and export hardware-encoded MP4 in seconds.
What's in the editor
Every tool you need. None of the learning curve.
Smart defaults cover most of what a demo needs. When you want to nudge something, the timeline is small, friendly, and deliberately not a real editor. Drag, drop, done.
Smart zoom on clicks
Recast watches your cursor, reads clicks and dwell, and zooms toward the moment that matters. You set zero keyframes.
Silence trimming
Detects dead-air segments (quiet audio + still cursor) and offers them up as one-click cuts. Toggle them off any time.
Cursor smoothing
Velocity-aware easing kills the jitter, with optional snap-to-target so the path lands where you meant to point.
Zoom regions on the timeline
Drag any moment to add a focus region. The auto picks are just a starting point. Every position, scale, and easing is yours to tweak.
Annotations & blur
Drop arrows, rectangles, text, or a privacy blur straight on the frame. Layers live on the timeline alongside everything else.
Camera bubble
Record yourself in a draggable bubble with shape, border, and follow-the-cursor motion. No second app. No green screen.
Plus trim & cut, background & padding, drop shadow, watermark, custom export presets, and a focus mode that hides everything but the frame. Nothing locked behind a "Pro" tier.
Make it yours
Open packs. No lock-in.
Install community asset packs right inside the editor. Cursors, backgrounds, gradients and motion presets show up in the pickers you already use. Each pack is just a manifest and a few static files, checked by hash on the way in, with no code and no permissions. The app stays free, offline and yours.
Cursor packs
Swap the pointer for a new style. Install a pack and it shows up in the cursor picker.
Backgrounds & gradients
Wallpapers, gradients and color sets that drop straight into the background picker.
Motion presets
Easing and cursor-smoothing presets, shared as packs you can install in a click.
Safe by design
Every pack is a manifest plus static files. No code runs, every asset is hash-checked, and nothing asks for permission.
Coming next · Recast Cloud
When a Drive link isn't enough.
For the moments a shared file can't express: knowing which prospect actually watched, gating an investor demo by viewer, branding the player as your product. Loom-style hosted demos, with more of the dials handed to you.
- Watch analytics See who watched, how far they got, and what they replayed.
- Access controls Per-viewer access, password gates, link expiry, revoke any time.
- Team workspaces Shared folders, roles, and per-team branding for your demos.
- Custom player Your colors, your logo, your domain on the player page.
Recast Cloud · waitlist open
Storage-agnostic by design.
Most hosted recorders lock you to their bucket and bill you for the privilege. Recast Cloud is a sharing + analytics layer that points at whichever storage you want, yours or ours.
Free with Cloud Bring your own storage
- Google Drive (shipping today)
- Cloudinary, autorender.io (planned)
- Your account, your storage bill, your retention
Paid plans Recast-hosted or your own bucket
- Recast-managed storage (turnkey, nothing to configure)
- Custom S3, Cloudflare R2, Azure Blob, GCP Cloud Storage
- Data residency + workspace billing in one place
Get early access.
Drop your email and we'll let you in before the public launch.
Until Cloud lands, the free app + Drive flow covers the whole loop. No card, ever, just for joining the list.
Built for founders
Shaped for the people shipping solo.
Opinionated where it matters, out of your way everywhere else. Auto-polish for the 80 % case, a minimal timeline for the moments you actually want to control.
For solo founders
Investor walkthroughs and product demos that look funded. Record one between two meetings, ship it before the third.
For indie hackers
Launch videos, changelog clips, and Twitter cuts on your own schedule. Save a profile for each one and hit record. Fully offline, ship at midnight, fix typos at 2 AM.
For solopreneurs
Onboarding videos and support replies that answer once and convert forever. Make it once. Let it work while you sleep.
v0.2 beta · ready when you are
A demo, not a project. Ship it the same day.
Free forever. No account. Windows is daily-driver stable, macOS and Linux are in active beta.
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