Automatic
Smart zoom on clicks
Recast watches your cursor, reads clicks and dwell, and zooms toward the moment that matters. You set zero keyframes.
What's new
Record once. Ship a demo.
Smart zoom, cursor smoothing, and silence cuts happen while you record. By the time you stop, the demo is mostly done.
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Free forever · No sign-up macOS ·Windows ·Linux
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See it work
Same take. Polished demo.
One with the OS recorder. One with Recast. Smart zoom, cursor smoothing, padding, and silence cuts already applied by the time you stop.
Raw Polished
Smart zoom Cursor smoothing Silence trim
0:30 ~0:22 Drag to compare. Both clips play at once; the polished cut lands shorter once silence is trimmed.
- GPLv3 open source
- Tauri + Rust
- No telemetry
- Files never leave your machine
- No account required
Built on tools makers trust
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. The space between a raw capture and something worth sending is the entire job Recast does for you.
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
Step 1 · Record
Hit record. That's the whole setup.
Region, window, or full screen. One shortcut starts the capture. No projects, no codecs, no account.
- Recording profiles Save capture presets and switch with one shortcut. Investor demo, changelog clip, tutorial: pick the profile, hit record.
- Pause & resume mid-take A knock at the door no longer means re-recording. Paused spans trim out cleanly.
Recast
Start a recording… ⌘ ⇧ R
Record full screen ↵
Record region
Continue last project
Step 2 · Auto-polish
The editing happens while you record.
Smart zoom, cursor smoothing, silence cuts, and padding apply as you record. By the time you stop, the demo is mostly done.
Applied
Cursor refinement
Velocity smoothing kills twitchy paths, snaps to targets.
Applied
Auto layouts
Padding, backgrounds, framing applied live as you record.
Applied
Smart zoom
Recast zooms toward the action so viewers never miss the point.
Applied
Trim & ship
Cut dead frames, export hardware-encoded MP4 in seconds.
Recast · Editor
What's in the editor
Every tool you need. None of the learning curve.
Smart defaults cover most of what a demo needs. When you want to nudge something, the timeline is small, friendly, and deliberately not a real editor. Drag, drop, done.
Silence trimming
Detects dead-air segments (quiet audio + still cursor) and offers them up as one-click cuts. Toggle them off any time.
Cursor smoothing
Velocity-aware easing kills the jitter, with optional snap-to-target so the path lands where you meant to point.
Zoom regions on the timeline
Drag any moment to add a focus region. The auto picks are just a starting point. Every position, scale, and easing is yours to tweak.
Annotations & blur
Drop arrows, rectangles, text, or a privacy blur straight on the frame. Layers live on the timeline alongside everything else.
Camera bubble
Record yourself in a draggable bubble with shape, border, and follow-the-cursor motion. No second app. No green screen.
Plus trim & cut, background & padding, drop shadow, watermark, custom export presets. Nothing locked behind a "Pro" tier.
Make it yours
Open packs. No lock-in.
Community packs install straight into the editor's pickers. Each one is a manifest and a few static files, hash-checked, with no code and no permissions.
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
Every pack is a manifest plus static files. No code runs, every asset is hash-checked, and nothing asks for permission.
Coming next · Recast Cloud
When a Drive link isn't enough.
Loom-style hosted demos, with more of the controls in your hands. Watch analytics, per-viewer access, link expiry.
- Watch analytics Who watched, how far they got, what they replayed.
- Access controls Per-viewer access, password gates, link expiry.
Recast Cloud · waitlist open
Storage-agnostic by design.
A sharing + analytics layer that points at whichever storage you want. Yours or ours.
Free with Cloud Bring your own storage
- Google Drive (shipping today)
- Cloudinary, autorender.io (planned)
- Your account, your storage, your retention
Paid plans Recast-hosted or your own bucket
- Recast-managed storage
- Custom S3, R2, Azure Blob, GCP
- Data residency in one workspace bill
Get early access.
Drop your email and we'll let you in before the public launch.
Until Cloud lands, the free app + Drive flow covers the whole loop. No card, ever, just for joining the list.
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.
A desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Native capture, fully offline, no extension to install.
v0.4 beta · ready when you are
A demo, not a project. Ship it the same day.
Free forever. No account. Windows is daily-driver stable, macOS and Linux are in active beta.