Auto
Smart zoom on clicks
Reads clicks and dwell, then zooms toward the moment that matters. Zero keyframes.
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Record once. Ship a launch video.
Smart zoom, cursor smoothing, and silence cuts happen while you record. By the time you stop, the demo is mostly done.
Free forever · No account needed to record · macOS ·Windows ·Linux
Region, window, or full screen. One shortcut, no project setup.
See it work
Same take. Polished demo.
One with the OS recorder. One with Recast. Same take, polished by the time you stop.
Drag to compare. Both clips play at once; the polished cut lands shorter once silence is trimmed.
- GPLv3 open source
- Tauri + Rust
- No telemetry without consent
- Files never leave your machine
- No account required
Why not the built-in recorder
Your OS recorder stops at a file
Every laptop ships a screen recorder. None of them ship a demo.
Built-in recorder
Recast
A raw .mp4 dumped on your desktop
A polished demo, framed and padded
A jittery, distracting cursor
Cursor smoothed and snapped to targets
Re-pick region, window, mic, camera every take
Saved recording profiles, one shortcut to switch
You, manually trimming in iMovie
Trim, zoom, and backgrounds, all built in
Manual export, upload, and link-fetching
One click to your Drive, share-link in hand
It starts with a take
Region, window, or full screen. One shortcut starts the capture.
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Region, window, or screen
One shortcut starts the capture. No project, no codec picker, no account.
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Recording profiles
Save capture presets and switch with one shortcut between demo, clip, and tutorial.
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Pause and resume
A knock at the door no longer means re-recording. Paused spans trim out cleanly.
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Recast
Record
The editing happens while you record
Smart zoom, cursor smoothing and silence cuts apply as you go. The timeline is there when you want it.
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Cursor refinement
Velocity smoothing kills twitchy paths and snaps the pointer to its target.
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Silence cuts
Dead air is detected and trimmed, so the finished take lands shorter than the raw one.
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Recast · Editor
Zoom
Audio -1.2s
Smart zoom Silence cut Cursor smoothing Applied automatically
Inside the editor
Every tool you need. None of the learning curve.
Smart defaults cover most of it. The timeline is there for the rest.
Auto
Silence trimming
Finds dead air (quiet audio, still cursor) and offers one-click cuts.
Auto
Cursor smoothing
Velocity-aware easing kills the jitter and lands the path where you meant to point.
Manual
Zoom regions on the timeline
Drag any moment to add a focus region. Position, scale and easing are all yours.
Manual
Annotations & blur
Drop arrows, boxes, text or a privacy blur on the frame. Layers live on the timeline.
Manual
Camera bubble
A draggable camera bubble with shape, border and cursor-following motion. No second app.
Plus trim, padding, backgrounds and export presets. Nothing behind a "Pro" tier.
Recast Extensions
Open packs. No lock-in.
Community packs install into the editor's pickers: a manifest and static files, hash-checked.
Cursor packs
Swap the pointer for a new style. Install a pack and it shows up in the cursor picker.
Backgrounds & gradients
Wallpapers, gradients and color sets that drop straight into the background picker.
Motion presets
Easing and cursor-smoothing presets, shared as packs you can install in a click.
Safe by design
A manifest plus static files. No code runs and every asset is hash-checked.
When a Drive link isn't enough
Hosted demos with the controls in your hands. Storage stays your call.
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Watch analytics
Who watched, how far they got, what they replayed.
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Access controls
Per-viewer access, password gates, link expiry.
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Bring your own storage
Google Drive today, S3 and R2 planned. Or let Recast host it.
Ship your first hosted demo
Drop your email, upload a take, send the link. Free tier, no card.
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Built for builders
Shaped for the people who ship
Opinionated where it matters, out of your way everywhere else.
For solo founders
Investor walkthroughs and demos that look funded. Record one, ship it the same morning.
For indie hackers
Launch videos, changelog clips, Twitter cuts. Ship at midnight, fix typos at 2 AM.
For dev teams & DevRel
Changelog clips, release notes, tutorials users actually watch. Record the feature, ship the walkthrough.
Questions
Before you download
Everything people ask first, answered without a sales detour.
A desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Native capture, fully offline, no extension to install.
- Record
- Polish
- Share
A demo, not a project. Ship it the same day.
Free forever, no account needed. Windows is stable; macOS and Linux are in beta.