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Capture Studio
Screen recorder and editor: own it, runs fully offline
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.
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About Capture Studio on Product Hunt
“Screen recorder and editor: own it, runs fully offline”
Capture Studio was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #153 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Capture Studio was featured in Windows (12.8k followers), Design Tools (262.8k followers) and Video (2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 54.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Capture Studio?
Capture Studio was hunted by Stian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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