Desktop Changelog — Page 2 — Cap
Desktop0.4.0
Screenshot Mode, Local Captions, New Editor Tracks & Recoverable Recordings
- Screenshot Mode — Capture and edit screenshots with a dedicated editor. Includes shapes, text annotations, sensitive masking, backgrounds, padding, and more. Export or share with a single click.
- Local caption generation — Generate captions directly on your device using Whisper, with support for many languages. Fully customizable styling (font, size, color, background, position) and SRT export.
- New editor track types — Text overlays, Sensitive Mask, and Highlight tracks give you more creative control over your recordings.
- Overhauled recording picker — Brand new target select overlay makes it easier than ever to pick your recording source.
- Recoverable recordings for Studio Mode — Recordings are now saved in 3-second chunks. If anything goes wrong, you'll lose at most 3 seconds—full recovery system built in and enabled by default.
- Circle cursor — New mobile simulator cursor option for showcasing app demos.
- Faster editor playback — Major performance improvements including WebGPU rendering, optimized YUV conversion, and hardware decoder support on Windows. Longer videos now scrub and play back much smoother.
- Preview quality options — Quarter and Half preview quality options for faster playback on slower systems.
- Improved audio-video sync — Post-recording sync calibration, drift correction, and input latency estimation on macOS for tighter sync.
- Recording hotkeys — New pause/resume hotkey and cycle recording mode hotkey. Tray menu now shows mode selection with dynamic icons.
- Better device support — Lots more webcams and microphones are now supported, with improved device detection and permission flows.
- Redesigned export page — New export UI with live preview, render time estimates, and frame-accurate cropping via a timeline slider.
- Windows reliability — Hardware compatibility checks, encoder health monitoring with automatic fallback, Media Foundation decoder with D3D11 interop, and Windows fragmented M4S muxer support.
- Bug fixes — Fixed memory leak while streaming, split action now respects segment speed, and recordings now use human-readable project names instead of UUIDs + lots more quality of life improvements.
Desktop0.3.83
Studio Mode overhaul, mic downmixing, capture reliability
- Studio Mode overhaul \- Movement, motion blur, and styling improvements, including new and improved cursors, motion blur for zooms and fast movement, smoother auto-zoom, squircle corners, and more.
- Microphone channel downmixing \- Microphone audio frames are now downmixed for better consistency across devices.
- Auto-recover capture failures \- Automatically recovers desktop microphone feed and ScreenCaptureKit stream failures on macOS.
- macOS capture reliability \- Simplified system stop error checks in screen capture to reduce spurious failures.
Desktop0.3.82
Speed modification in editor, New Crop UI, Bug fixes
- Speed modification \- Clip segments now have a Speed option in the editor, allowing them to be slowed down or sped up. Currently, changing the speed of a segment will mute its audio.
- New Crop UI \- Thanks to @ItsEeleeya the area select and editor crop UI now has more features and is much smoother.
- Bug fixes \- macOS recording errors should be less common, and some recordings should no longer look distorted in the Editor
Desktop0.3.80
Audio recording improvements + Editor enhancements
- Audio recording improvements \- Audio inputs with many channels are now better supported, and audio recording in Studio mode is now more optimised
- Improved trimming in Editor \- Shrinking a timeline segment now results in the segment staying in the same position until you stop dragging
Desktop0.3.78
Recording fixes + Editor enhancements
- Transparent Background \- Choose the 'transparent' color background in the Editor to export GIFs with transparent backgrounds
- Recording Fixes \- Some bugs preventing recordings from starting have been fixed, and less errors will cause recording files to become corrupted
- Clip Multi-select \- Hold Shift or Cmd to select multiple timeline clips at once
Desktop0.3.77
Instant Mode resolution picker + Improvements to audio and uploader
- New Instant Mode Resolution Picker — You can now set the resolution of Instant Mode recordings in Settings. Choose from 720p, 1080, 1440p and 4k. Defaults to 1080p.
- Uploader speed improvements — Uploads are now done more efficiently by uploading multiple chunks at the same time, bumping the chunk size to 20mb, and reusing the presigned URL for the last chunk
- Audio recording fixes — A bug that caused recorded audio to sound choppy should now be fixed
- Upload logs feedback — Using the 'Upload Logs' tray button will show a dialog if the logs upload succeeds
- Improved area selector — Drag to select now supported in the new recording flow area selector (enable new recording flow via Settings -> Experimental)
- Improved error handling — Some errors that can occur while recording on Windows will now safely stop recording
Desktop0.3.76
Video upload improvements
- Uploader stability improvements — Video uploads are now more resilient against failures and provide more debugging information
- Self-hosted uploads fixed — A bug affecting video uploads for users with self-hosted instances of Cap Web has been fixed
Desktop0.3.75
Editor playback stability & bug fixes
- Smoother editor playback — stabilized pacing and added FPS validation to reduce stutter and drift in the editor.
- Editor settings-change fix — improved WebSocket image-frame parsing and validation to resolve glitches when adjusting editor settings.
Desktop0.3.74
~16% faster exports, Improved audio sync, macOS Tahoe assets & Across the board reliability improvements
- Quicker exports — export pipeline optimizations cut total export time by ~ 16%
- macOS Tahoe support — high-quality SVG Tahoe cursor icons, and fresh macOS Tahoe wallpapers
- Bluetooth playback fixed — improved audio latency handling & lag on wireless headphones
- Fixed audio device selection — better mic device detection (e.g., AirPods now appear reliably)
- Snappier uploads — optimistic presigned URLs reduce upload latency
- New uploader — the new uploader is now on by default for Instant Mode, increasing upload reliability
- Safer pausing — enforce monotonic PTS for audio/video to prevent corruption after pauses in Instant Mode
- Zoom workflow upgrades — split Zoom and Scene segments, fixed an issue with clicking zooms segments on long recordings, and you can now drag to create new zoom segments;
- Multi-monitor improvements — tighter Target Select overlay bounds and corrected List View in the new recording picker (enable via Settings > Experimental)
- Stabler capture/encode — don't abort if the capturer stalls, proper DXVA2 hardware decode on Windows, and handle "no frames" from screen capture
- Hide inactive cursor — you can now set cursor idle time in the editor, automatically hiding the cursor after X amount of seconds with a smooth fade
- Editor UX touches — scissors cursor shows when the Clip tool is active
- Quality of life — On Windows, the main window now re-opens after closing Settings/Editor
Desktop0.3.73
Window exclusion, accurate colors, improved uploading & more!
- New Window Excluder — hide specific apps/windows from recording (works best on macOS, enable via Settings → General)
- Camera & mic safety — we now hold device locks only while recording is active, preventing “device busy” conflicts and improving handoff between sessions
- Multi-channel USB audio — proper support for interfaces with multiple input channels
- More faithful color — AVFoundation recordings now use the Rec.709 color space for better color accuracy on modern displays
- Stronger uploads — the new uploader is enabled on desktop, and we’ve added multipart uploads for Studio recordings and Instant re-uploads to handle large files and spotty networks
- Corruption guard — the muxer now stops cleanly if a frame queue failure occurs, avoiding partial or corrupted outputs
- Clearer errors — improved messaging and handling when video upload info can’t be found
- Under-the-hood reliability — numerous recording pipeline hardening tweaks for steadier performance
Desktop0.3.72
Recording picker upgrades, auto-zoom improvements & Windows encoding fixes
- New List View in the recording picker (enable via Settings → Experimental).
- Faster recording start on macOS by sharing ScreenCaptureKit warm-up across sessions
- Windows capturer now runs on a dedicated thread for snappier, more reliable capture
- Windows encoding is more resilient: automatic fallback to software H.264 when hardware
ProcessInputfails, plus fixes to the software path - Auto-zoom feels smoother on fast cursor moves with refined segment generation and steadier cursor behavior (including safer cursor-actor cleanup)
- Fixed a case where the 5-minute Studio export limit could be enforced incorrectly
- Improved app icon/logo render quality in the new recording picker on Windows
- Added minidump crash reporting (Sentry via Tauri) to help diagnose rare crashes.
- Clearer “needs input” error handling in the desktop flow.
- Improved recording pipeline under the hood for improved reliability and lower latency
Desktop0.3.70
Studio Recording Fix
- Ensures that cursor capture stops properly, so that studio recordings get finalized after ending
Desktop0.3.69
UpdateIntervalNotSupported Fix
- Fixes the 'UpdateIntervalNotSupported' some Windows users were experiencing
Desktop0.3.68
New audio sync engine, Editor border option & Performance improvements
- New timestamp system, overhauling and improving audio/video sync
- New border option in editor, allowing you to add a border to your screen recording
- New hardware accelerated encoding on Windows, improving performance
- New clip source offsetting, allowing you to adjust audio/video sync manually
- Improved and overhauled Shortcuts (hotkeys) implementation, with support for new recording picker
- Improved new recording picker selection (enable via Settings > Experimental)
- Fix for continuity camera querying
- Fix for deleting recordings on Windows
Desktop0.3.67
New scenes feature, higher quality GIFs & more
- New scenes feature, allowing you to make the camera fullscreen for sections of the video, or hide it
- Higher quality GIF exports
- Custom cursor capture is now enabled by default (can be disabled in Settings > Experimental)
- New camera preview is more stable
- Setting a background will now automatically add padding if there is none
- New recording flow (can be enabled in Settings > Experimental)
- New recording engine behind the scenes, allowing us a better platform to build on for future features
Desktop0.3.64
Delete recording configuration + Bug fixes
- Opening a
.capbundle in Finder will now work properly. Studio recordings will open in the editor, and Instant recordings will open their.mp4file in Preview. - New 'After deleting recording behaviour' setting, providing the option for Cap's main window to be reopened after deleting an in progress recording
- A bug where the number -1 was causing recordings to fail to start has been fixed. Please let us know if you encounter an error saying that no screens or windows could be found.
Desktop0.3.63
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- When exporting a video on Windows, the title will now be correctly formatted
- Fixed "Request Permission" for microphone selection on macOS during setup process
- Fixed a crash that happened when selecting a particular camera on macOS and Windows
Desktop0.3.62
New Camera System, Auto Zoom Segments, Performance Improvements & More!
- Complete camera system overhaul, enabling broader device support, lower latency and smoother performance
- Experimental: Auto zoom segments automatically inserts new zoom segments at key moments.
- Cursors now render as high-resolution SVGs for better quality (when available)
- Configurable countdown before recording starts (3, 5 or 10 seconds)
- Export dialog now shows exact output resolution before you render
- Recording halts if sustained frame drops are detected (so you are aware earlier that the recording has stopped)
- On Windows, launching Cap again jumps straight to the recorder instead of opening a second instance
- Refreshed settings pages design
- Edit the name of a recording directly in the editor
Enable "Experimental" features via Settings > Experimental.
Desktop0.3.59
Camera fix
- The error 'An error occurred Task 'camera _capture' failed: Panicked: called 'Result:unwrap0' on an Err' value: SystemTimeError' has been fixed.
Desktop0.3.58
Windows & Audio fixes
- Handles failures during screen recording more gracefully, displaying extra information for debugging
- Audio will export properly even if a source file is cut short
- Reduces instances of New Recording window being blank
- Screen scaling is now handled properly for display capture on Windows
- Removes window decorations from all windows on Windows