Record
Press ⌥⌘R from anywhere. Screen, window or area, with mic, camera and system audio if you want them.
Record once. Get a finished video.
Record your screen. Capta cuts the dead air, calms the mouse, zooms in on your clicks and captions your voice, all on your Mac.
Free, no watermark · 52.4 MB · v0.9.57, October 18, 2026
Free, no account
Everything on-device
Signed and notarized by Apple
Written in Swift by one developer
Used by piggies at
- Snoutworks
- Hamhock Studio
- Curly Tail Co.
- Oink.ai
- Truffle & Root
- Mudbath
- Porkchop Pay
- Acorn Club
- Sty Labs
- Hoofprint
- Wallow Inc.
- Pink Snout Media
Piggies not independently verified.
How it works
You click around. Capta directs the camera.
While you record, Capta watches your clicks, typing and scrolling. When you stop, the edit exists.
It zooms on your clicks
Capta reads the button or field under each click and glides to it. Pauses go, typing runs faster.
It captions your voice
Talk while you record. Capta transcribes you on your Mac and keeps every cut away from your sentences.
Export or share
Up to 4K at 60 fps, as MP4, GIF or straight to the clipboard. Or switch to Guide for a document.
Walkthroughs: how to move your mouse for a smooth recording, record a demo video on a Mac, make a GIF, cut a vertical clip, add captions.
The editor
The edit is there when you stop.
Change the look, drag a zoom, fix a caption, or switch to Guide for a document. Or don't, and export.
The editor, in motion
Play the edit, nudge a zoom, then put the take on a laptop in a café with one click. Every change previews at once and can be undone.
One small panel, from anywhere
⌥⌘R opens it: record or screenshot a window, the screen or an area, and pick the microphone, camera and system audio under Options. On a MacBook with a notch, the countdown, the time and Stop sit beside the notch.
A guide from the same take
Switch the editor to Guide and every click becomes a numbered screenshot with the control boxed and a sentence under it. Export it as a PDF, or push it into Hudu. How it works.
Beside the notch
A small piggy keeps you company.
On a MacBook with a notch, Capta's piggy sits right beside it, breathing, blinking and twitching an ear. Click it for the menu. While you record, the time, Pause and Stop sit there instead of over your screen, and never in the recording.
On a real device
Your demo, on a laptop in a café.
Pick one of 29 photographed scenes and your recording plays on the device's screen, in perspective, with the pointer on it. The zooms push into the photo toward what you click, or hold the shot you framed.
15 laptops · 3 displays · 5 tablets · 6 phones · framing from the whole room to the screen
The details
Everything a product video needs. Nothing to set up.
Dead air out
Pauses go; typing and loading run at double speed with eased ramps. A minute of fumbling comes back as thirty seconds.
Cuts on the beat
Drop in a track and Capta reads its tempo on your Mac, landing each cut on the grid with the music lowered under your voice.
Voice, levelled
Your narration at one level, fans, hum and room hiss learned from the pauses and gated out.
You, in a bubble
Eight bubble shapes in a corner, or a camera column beside the video. Room blurred, live from the countdown on.
Title and end cards
Seven designs, classic to cinematic, in your accent colour on your own backdrop, previewed live.
Keystrokes on screen
Shortcuts as chips that type out live. Typed text only if you ask, never from a password field.
Written for you
Title, caption, chapters and a social post from what happened on screen, by a small model you download once or Apple Intelligence.
Share with a link
One click copies the export to your iCloud Drive and Apple's sharing sheet hands you a URL anyone can open.
The spec sheet
Everything in the box.
Capture
- Screen, window or area
- Any display. A window you drag mid-take stays framed.
- Camera and mic
- You in a corner bubble with a roundness dial, mirror, zoom, lighting and a blurred room. Pick which mic and camera right in the capture panel, and see yourself live from the countdown on: the bubble is on your screen, never in the recording.
- System audio
- The app's own sounds, kept wherever the video runs at normal speed.
- Countdown, pause, notes
- Three seconds to get your hands in place, notifications muted. Pause beside the notch, on the Stop pill or with ⌥⌘P. Talking points in a floating panel that is never in the recording.
- Record again
- ⇧⌘R repeats the last window, area or display; the area picker opens on the last area.
Edit
- Live preview
- Each setting applies as you change it, at your screen's own resolution; the first look plays before the smooth copy is even built. Export is the only render.
- Zooms you can steer
- Drag one, stretch it, aim it at a point, nudge it from the keyboard. Cut any stretch with ⌥I, ⌥O and ⌥⌫. Zoom the timeline for long takes.
- Look
- Gradients, meshes, patterns, your wallpapers or your brand colour; your recording on 29 photographed laptops, displays, tablets and phones; a backdrop that slowly drifts; your logo in a corner. Save it all as a preset.
- Cursor
- Smoothed, scaled, with click ripples. Arrow, hand, dot, spotlight or hidden.
- Captions and voice
- Transcribed on the Mac, editable, find-and-replace, pill or bar or plain, top or bottom. The voice levelled automatically, the room noise gated out.
- Music
- Three built-in tracks, Creative Commons search with preview, a drag bar for the section that plays.
Screenshots
- Screen, window, area, page
- Scrolling capture stitches a whole page into one picture.
- Annotate
- Arrow, line, box, ellipse, pen, highlighter, numbered steps, spotlight, mosaic blur, text, crop. Select any mark to move or resize it.
- Restyle
- Every video background and the Mac's wallpapers as one-click looks.
- Send
- Copy, save, share, or drag the picture straight into another app.
Everyday
- Keyboard
- ⌥⌘R opens the capture panel from anywhere and stops the take, ⌥⌘5 records the window in front at once, ⌥⌘P pauses. Re-record any shortcut in Settings.
- Export
- Presets for YouTube, X, Reels, the App Store and README GIFs; H.264 or HEVC; a poster frame; drag the button straight into Slack or Finder.
- Library
- Rename, search what you said, sort, duplicate, size on disk, move the whole library to another drive. Recordings are plain folders.
- Updates
- Install and Relaunch from inside the app, or one weekly check that fetches a single version file.
| Price | Free. Every feature, no watermark, no account, no trial, no subscription. |
|---|---|
| Requirements | macOS 14 or later on an Apple silicon Mac (M1 and later). Not available for Intel Macs. |
| Download | 52.4 MB DMG, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Current version 0.9.57, October 18, 2026. |
| Export formats | MP4 (H.264 or HEVC), GIF, a poster PNG, or straight to the clipboard. Guides as PDF, Markdown, HTML, rich text on the clipboard, or pushed into Hudu. |
| Sizes | 16:9, vertical or square, up to 4K at 60 fps. |
| Shortcuts | ⌥⌘R capture panel and stop, ⌥⌘5 record the front window, ⌥⌘P pause. All re-recordable in Settings. |
| Where recordings live | ~/Movies/Capta by default, one plain folder per recording; the whole library can be moved to another folder or drive. |
| Network | Anonymous usage events (no identifier kept, off with one switch in Settings). Optional weekly update checks, music search/downloads, Qwen and Apple speech-model installation and user-initiated iCloud sharing may use the network. |
| Automatic captions | Automatic captions use downloadable Qwen models on macOS 14+, or Apple Speech on macOS 26+. Select the caption provider separately from writing models in Settings → Models. Qwen caption downloads total 1.84 GB; transcription stays on your Mac. |
| Apple Intelligence | Optional Apple Intelligence on macOS 26+, or downloadable Qwen3 models. Select a provider in Settings → Models; templates work without downloads. |
Wondering how it compares? Capta against Screen Studio, Loom, CleanShot X and more, and what people make with it.
Questions people ask
Before you download.
Is Capta free?
Yes. Every feature, no watermark, no account, no trial, no subscription.
Does Capta run on Intel Macs?
No. Capta needs macOS 14 or later on an Apple silicon Mac (M1 and later); the on-device analysis, transcription and rendering rely on it.
Does Capta upload my recordings?
No. Recording, the edit, transcription and rendering run on your Mac, and there is no account. The app sends anonymous usage events, never your recordings, and one switch in Settings turns them off. Share copies a video to your own iCloud Drive only when you press it. The privacy policy spells it out.
How does the automatic edit work?
While you record, Capta watches your clicks, typing and scrolling. It zooms in on what you clicked, cuts dead air, speeds up typing and lands cuts on the beat of your music. Drag, stretch or delete any zoom afterwards.
How do captions work?
Turn the mic on and talk. Capta transcribes on the Mac, with downloadable Qwen models on macOS 14 or later or Apple Speech on macOS 26 or later, keeps cuts away from your sentences and burns the captions in. The captions guide walks through it.
Can Capta write a step-by-step guide?
Yes, from the same recording. Switch the editor to Guide: each click becomes a numbered screenshot with the control boxed and a sentence under it, and typing and shortcuts get steps of their own. Fix what a reader would trip on, then export or push it into Hudu. The guide walkthrough shows the five steps.
Can my camera be in the video?
Yes. Pick a camera in the recorder and it sits in a bubble in one of eight shapes, from a circle to a pill, or in a column on the left or right while the screen zooms beside it. Size, corners and column width are yours to set.
What can Capta export?
MP4 in H.264 or HEVC, GIF, a poster PNG, or the clipboard, in 16:9, vertical or square, up to 4K at 60 fps, with presets for YouTube, X, Reels, the App Store and README GIFs. More on the support page.
Who makes Capta
One developer, and you can email them.
Capta is built by Gjorge Karakabakov, a senior software engineer in Skopje with more than ten years of shipping products. Every line of the app and every reply to support mail come from the same person.
Made inSkopje, North Macedonia
Written inSwift, on Apple's own frameworks
First releaseSeptember 1, 2026
Current version0.9.57, October 18, 2026.
Business modelFree. No watermark, no account, no subscription.
Supportcapta.cam/support
Private by architecture
Your recordings stay on your Mac.
Element detection, beat analysis, speech transcription, the Apple Intelligence features, the edit engine and the renderer run on your machine. Capta has no account system; its anonymous usage events carry no identifier and switch off in Settings. Speech-model installation may need a download, and weekly update checks are opt-in. Share copies a video to your own iCloud Drive, and only when you press it. Read the privacy policy.
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