Cap

What it does

Cap is an open source screen recorder with three modes: Instant for quick shareable links, Studio for local 4K recording and editing, and Screenshot for beautified stills. Every capture gets a browser-viewable Cap page with comments, transcript, and chapters. It is free for personal use, and paid plans add commercial rights, cloud sharing, and AI features.

Cap is an open source screen recorder that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It has three modes. Instant Mode uploads while you record and puts a share link on your clipboard when you stop. Studio Mode records locally in 4K with separate screen, camera, and mic tracks, then opens an editor with backgrounds, automatic zoom, cursor effects, and captions. Screenshot Mode beautifies window grabs with one hotkey. Every capture gets a Cap page with comments, reactions, transcript, and chapters, and viewers watch in the browser without an account. The project is open source on GitHub and can be self-hosted. Pricing starts free for personal use with no time limit on local recordings. The Desktop License costs $29 per license per year, or $58 once for a lifetime license, and adds commercial usage rights, unlimited local recording and editing, and 20 cloud shareable links per month. Cap Pro costs $12 per user per month, or $8.16 a month billed annually, and adds unlimited cloud storage and bandwidth, AI titles, summaries, chapters, and transcriptions, a custom domain, password protected shares, viewer analytics, team workspaces, and a Loom video importer. Enterprise adds optional SAML SSO at $199 per month and a signed BAA at $99 per month. The official pages do not state whether an account is required to use the app, and they do not mention a public API.