[Jan 7, 2026](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-83/index.html)

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.

[Nov 11, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-82/index.html)

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.

[Nov 5, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-81/index.html)

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

[Oct 23, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-80/index.html)

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

[Oct 23, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-79/index.html)

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

[Oct 23, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-78/index.html)

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

[Oct 21, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-77/index.html)

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

[Oct 19, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-76/index.html)

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.

[Oct 18, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-75/index.html)

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

[Oct 13, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-74/index.html)

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

[Oct 7, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-73/index.html)

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 `ProcessInput` fails, 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

[Sep 22, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-72/index.html)

Desktop0.3.70

## Studio Recording Fix

- Ensures that cursor capture stops properly, so that studio recordings get finalized after ending

[Sep 22, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-71/index.html)

Desktop0.3.69

## UpdateIntervalNotSupported Fix

- Fixes the 'UpdateIntervalNotSupported' some Windows users were experiencing

[Sep 18, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-70/index.html)

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

[Aug 26, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-69/index.html)

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

[Aug 12, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-68/index.html)

Desktop0.3.64

## Delete recording configuration + Bug fixes

- Opening a `.cap` bundle in Finder will now work properly. Studio recordings will open in the editor, and Instant recordings will open their `.mp4` file 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.

[Aug 7, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-67/index.html)

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

[Aug 6, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-66/index.html)

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.

[Jul 14, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-65/index.html)

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.

[Jul 3, 2025](/content/changelog/desktop/page/2#desktop-64/index.html)

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