Capture Studio is a Windows screen recorder with a real editor behind it, and everything runs on your own PC: no account, no uploads, one-time purchase. Edit on a multi-track timeline with keyframes and transitions, and explain with callouts, numbered steps, spotlights, arrows and keystrokes. Auto-polish cuts idle gaps, smooths the cursor and zooms to follow it. Subtitles and voiceovers are made on-device. Export a project with its media and a colleague just opens it, no invites needed.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Three minutes to record a walkthrough. Two hours to make it watchable. That maths stopped working for me.
I've made a lot of these. Most editors I tried turned it into a chore, and everyone else wanted me to pay a monthly subscription. So I built the recorder I wanted, with a real editor behind it instead of a trim slider.
The core is a multi-track timeline with transitions and keyframes, so anything you place can be animated and timed exactly. Around it:
Annotations: callout bubbles, numbered step pins, spotlights, arrows, text and titles, keystroke display, stickers, intros
Automatic passes: idle gaps between clicks cut out, cursor smoothed and every click marked, a zoom camera that follows the pointer
Everything else: subtitles, webcam, voiceover, avatars, interactive tutorials
It all runs on your own machine. No account, no uploads, nothing leaving the PC. A project lives in one folder, assets and all — zip it, send it, they open it.
One-time purchase. It runs offline, so charging rent for it never made sense to me.
So tell me what's missing. It gets updated regularly, and I'd rather hear it now than after I've built the wrong thing.