Cap
Beautiful screen recordings, owned by you. 100% open source.
Cap launched on November 28, 2024 with 1,047 votes, #6 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Cap is an open source screen recording tool that provides an alternative to Loom. It allows users to record and share video footage quickly and securely, with support for custom S3 bucket storage. Designed for developers and productivity-focused users, Cap emphasizes being lightweight and visually polished while remaining entirely open source, giving users full ownership of their recordings and data.
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From the sources
Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share securely in seconds with custom S3 bucket support.
Cap is the free, open source screen recorder for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Record, edit, take screenshots, and share videos with a link.
One open source app for every way you capture your screen. Start free and move to Cap Pro when you need more, whether you work alone, with a small team, or across an entire organization. Hit record and Cap uploads as you go. The moment you stop, a share link is on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Record locally in 4K with separate screen, camera, and mic tracks. Polish with backgrounds, automatic zoom, and cursor effects in the built in editor. Capture any window with a hotkey, beautify it with one click, and copy it straight to your clipboard. Every capture gets a Cap page with comments, reactions, transcript, and chapters. Viewers watch in the browser. No download, no account.…from cap.so
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I made an open-source Loom alternative2024 · cap.so · ▲351Cap is the free, open source screen recorder for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Record, edit, take screenshots, and share videos with a link.
Cap – open-source alternative to Loom2023 · github.com · ▲53Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings. - CapSoftware/Cap
Reintroducing Cap, the open source Loom alternative2024 · github.com · ▲57Hey everyone! We launched the first version of Cap earlier this year. It wasn't great. We had tons of feedback. A couple of months ago we started rebuilding Cap from the ground up (Tauri V2 + SolidJS). We're now focused on being local first. Cap is 100% free to use locally. New features include a powerful editor, screenshots, hotkeys and just overall a much better experience. Would love for you to test it out - appreciate you! Cheers, Richie
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