Capptivo
An open-source screen recorder that auto-zooms and captions your demos
Description
Raw screen recordings of a product demo always look rough: viewers can't see where you clicked, and nothing on screen stands out. Adding zooms frame by frame in Premiere takes forever, and Screen Studio looks great but only runs on a Mac and costs $29 a month.
Capptivo is an MIT-licensed screen recorder and demo polisher that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Open a fresh recording and it suggests zoom segments from your clicks, with the camera following your cursor, so a polished demo takes minutes instead of hours.
Follow-cursor zoom: the frame pans with the pointer, with adjustable scale, smoothness and easing.
Cursor styling: several cursor styles with motion blur, click bounce and sway.
Captions come from Whisper running on your own machine, with no cloud involved, and can be styled and burned into the video. You need the whisper.cpp whisper-cli binary installed; the model downloads on first use.
Requires Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) or later, macOS 13.0+, or Linux with PipeWire 1.0+. macOS builds are currently unsigned: right-click and choose Open on first launch, or allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security, and grant Screen Recording.
Capptivo is an MIT-licensed screen recorder and demo polisher that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Open a fresh recording and it suggests zoom segments from your clicks, with the camera following your cursor, so a polished demo takes minutes instead of hours.
Recording
A menubar recorder with a global hotkey (⌥⇧R) captures a full display, a single window or a custom area. You can add a face-cam overlay, record the microphone and system audio, use a countdown and pause/resume. While recording you can draw on screen with a pen, highlighter, arrows, shapes and text, and the toolbar passes clicks through to the desktop when idle.Zoom and cursor
Click-based auto zoom: a fresh recording opens with zoom segments suggested from your clicks, or press Z to add one.Follow-cursor zoom: the frame pans with the pointer, with adjustable scale, smoothness and easing.
Cursor styling: several cursor styles with motion blur, click bounce and sway.
Look and captions
Pick image, gradient or solid backgrounds or upload your own, then add corner radius, shadow and padding, and crop out browser chrome. Save your look, face cam, cursor, caption and export settings as named presets.Captions come from Whisper running on your own machine, with no cloud involved, and can be styled and burned into the video. You need the whisper.cpp whisper-cli binary installed; the model downloads on first use.
Export
Export to MP4, WebM or GIF with resolution, quality and frame-rate (24/30/60) choices, plus optional voice enhancement. Projects stay local.Requires Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) or later, macOS 13.0+, or Linux with PipeWire 1.0+. macOS builds are currently unsigned: right-click and choose Open on first launch, or allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security, and grant Screen Recording.
