See a report before it leaves your Mac. Report an Issue… now opens a small window first. It says where the report goes and lists the details and, after a crash, the crash report, which you can read and untick. Nothing is uploaded until you choose Continue in Browser; Cancel sends nothing.
Paths without your account name. In everything a report carries, your home folder is written as ~.
0.9.54
The camera comes back in. With the Steady or Glide camera, a pointer thrown out of the picture sends the camera out to the whole screen. If you then carried on clicking in the same place, the camera stayed out, on a long take for minutes. It now comes back in a moment before your next click, at the depth it had. The Smooth camera was not affected.
Long recordings stay quick. Working out the edit took far longer than it should on long takes, so every setting you changed on a 40-minute recording made you wait. It is about thirty times faster on a take that long, and the result is the same edit.
Auto-tune judges more fairly. It no longer counts narration as dead air when captions are off. It reads how close the camera is at each click at the moment the click plays, which on long takes it had been reading seconds early. Clicks inside a dialog, which the Smooth camera shows whole on purpose, no longer count against the zoom, so auto-tune gives up depth less readily. A camera going up and down a page counts as restless, as one going side to side already did.
Auto-tune waits for the words. A long narrated take is tuned once its transcript is in, not thirty seconds after recording. A take you clicked away from while it was being tuned is tuned when you open it again.
Cut marks on the cuts. On long recordings the cut marks on the timeline had drifted ahead of where the cuts play, by about a second after five minutes. They sit on the cuts now.
Updates. Install and Relaunch checks that the download really is a newer Capta before replacing the one you have.
0.9.53
Screenshots save the way they look. Marks keep their size when you crop. A long scrolling capture gets normal-sized arrows and a normal border. The picture inside the card is copied pixel for pixel, and a window keeps its own rounded corners instead of leaving four clear notches.
Marks that read anywhere. The highlighter shows on dark apps. Labels get an edge when their colour is close to what is under them. Arrowheads are solid, the pen is smooth, and blur uses coarser blocks so hidden text stays hidden.
Easier drawing. Hold Shift for straight lines, squares and circles. Boxes resize from any corner. Arrow keys nudge the selected mark, ⌘D duplicates it. Labels are typed on the picture (⌥Return for a new line, double-click to retype). The Crop tool shows the whole capture so the crop can be resized, moved or redrawn. A line in the corner says what the current tool does.
Zoom and scroll.+−01 or a pinch. Long captures fit by width and scroll.
Looks you can adjust. Padding, corners, shadow, and a shape for the finished picture: 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 4:5 or 9:16. The editor remembers your tool, colour and look.
PNG, JPEG or HEIC. Pick the format when you save. ⌘Return copies the picture and closes the editor.
Scrolling capture. A footer or banner pinned to the page appears once instead of in every piece. A small panel shows how tall the picture is so far and has Stop. Capta waits for the page to settle after each step, and says so when it needs Accessibility permission to scroll.
More ways to capture. Screenshot › Screenshot Screen in 5 Seconds for menus and hover states, Screenshot › Include the Pointer, areas as small as an icon, and Return in the area picker captures the same area again.
Nothing lost by accident. Closing a screenshot, or quitting Capta, asks first when there are marks you have not copied or saved.
Guides. Step stills share the new arrowhead and the coarser blur.
0.9.52
Crash reports name the crash. When you choose Send Report after a crash, the report now says what failed (for example EXC_CRASH (SIGSEGV)) instead of only "Crash log attached". The macOS crash report itself was always attached, and nothing about what is sent has changed.
0.9.51
Send a report after a crash. When Capta crashed last time, the alert on the next launch has a Send Report button. It opens the same short form as Help → Report an Issue…, with the macOS crash report for that crash attached, so we can see where it failed. The form shows the attachment and you can remove it before sending. Export Diagnostics is still there if you would rather send a file yourself, and an ordinary Report an Issue… still attaches no crash report. Nothing is sent on its own.
0.9.50
A compact welcome. With no recording open, the window is small. Opening one, or finishing a take, grows it to the editor size you last used (most of the screen the first time), keeping its top in place; going back to the welcome shrinks it again. Full screen is left alone.
0.9.49
Auto-tune. Each new take's edit is tuned for the smoothest video before it opens. Capta plans the take with a few dozen settings (how long the camera stays in and how deep it goes, typing speed-up, which pauses to cut), simulates each camera move, and scores it for a calm camera, even pacing, clicks you can read and no dead air. When AI emphasis has run, the key moment counts more. The smoothest wins if it's clearly better; under a second, no frames rendered, nothing sent anywhere.
Your camera style is never changed and zooms stay restrained. A setting you change by hand keeps your value, Edit › Auto-tune says what changed and why, with Revert, and you can turn it off there.
0.9.48
Calm hectic mouse moves. An overshoot, a wiggle to point at something or circles while you type become one smooth glide that arrives a beat early and rests on the target. Clicks keep their exact time and place, drags keep their path, and deliberate moves are left as recorded. On by default, in the Edit tab.
The notch for every take. Window and area recordings now show the countdown and controls beside the notch, like full-screen ones.
Tidier captions. A conjunction after a comma (and, but, so, then…) stays lowercase.
0.9.47
Recording tips. Seven habits that give the automatic edit the most to work with: move slowly, rest before you click, don't wiggle to point, record one still window, don't rush, stay off the edges, talk in short sentences. Each has a small animation. They appear once, before your first take (Start recording carries straight on), and any time from Help › Recording Tips….
A roomier capture panel. The ⌥⌘R panel is a size up: bigger buttons and icons, larger red dots on the record buttons and a larger Options menu, so it is easier to hit. It is still one slim row.
0.9.45
The countdown at the notch. On a MacBook with a notch, the seconds before a take tick down beside the notch, with a button to cancel, instead of in large numbers in the middle of your screen.
No Stop pill beside the notch. In 0.9.44 the floating pill still appeared when a take began, even though the time, Pause and Stop were already beside the notch. Now it stays away there. Macs without a notch keep the pill.
0.9.44
A piggy beside the notch. On a MacBook with a notch, a tiny live piggy sits right beside it: it breathes, blinks, twitches an ear and sniffs now and then. Click it for Capta's menu; the menu bar icon steps aside for it. Turn it off in Settings › Recording.
Recording controls at the notch. While you record, the time, Pause and Stop sit beside the notch instead of the pill over your screen, with a warning there if a source fails. They are never in the recording. Macs without a notch keep the pill.
A slimmer capture panel. ⌥⌘R opens a compact toolbar like macOS's own: close, record a window, the screen, an area or again, take a screenshot of a window, the screen, an area or a scrolling page, and an Options menu for the microphone, camera (none, the system default or a device), system audio and notes.
Presets in the sidebar. Purpose and Pace are at the top of the Edit tab; Clean, Full frame and Reset Look are in the Style tab's look menu. Nothing sits above the video any more, and Fit selection and Original frame moved beside the play controls.
Smooth and subtle by default. New takes start with the Smooth camera, Subtle zoom and a slowly moving Ripple backdrop. Your saved settings and recordings keep theirs.
Steadier push-ins at the edges. When the Smooth camera zooms toward something at the edge of the picture, like a close button, it moves straight there instead of zooming about the middle first and swinging the card out of frame.
Easier to read. Text on coral buttons is dark instead of white, the buttons no longer glow, the window's coral tint runs top to bottom, and the menu bar icon is the piggy.
0.9.43
A new look. Capta has a new icon, a little pink piggy, and a coral colour to match it. Buttons, sliders, toggles, the timeline's zoom bars and the welcome tour use it, and so does capta.cam. New title cards and guides start in coral; recordings you already saved keep their colours.
Recordings beside the welcome. With nothing open, your six latest recordings sit to the right of the welcome, with a thumbnail, date and length. Click one to open it; ⌘L still shows the whole library.
The mark is the piggy. The small capta.cam mark on unlicensed exports and guide stills now shows the new icon.
0.9.42
Report an Issue. Help › Report an Issue… (also in the About window) opens a short form on SnagFrog, so you can tell us what went wrong and get an email when we reply. It sends Capta's version, your Mac model and macOS version, and which permissions and settings are on; never a recording, a screenshot or your logs. It replaces Send Feedback… and Report a Problem…, which opened an email draft.
0.9.41
No more black bars on devices. When your recording's shape doesn't match a device's screen, like the TV, a phone on its side or a vertical recording on a laptop, the space around it shows the backdrop you picked in the Backdrop tab instead of black. Card › Device › Empty screen space switches it back to black.
0.9.40
29 devices. Eleven more photos for Style › Card › Device: laptops in a meeting room, an airport lounge, on a train, on a bed, at a beach café and in a neon studio; a TV at home; a tablet with a keyboard and one held in a kitchen; a phone on a sofa and one in a flat lay.
Cleaner screen edges. The recording reaches just past each screen's corners and is trimmed by the screen's own shape, so rounded screens never show a thin black edge.
0.9.39
Your video on a real device. Style › Card › Device now puts your recording on the screen of a photographed device in a real place instead of drawing a frame around it: nine laptop scenes (office, library, home, café, studio, night desk, kitchen, garden terrace, coworking space), two desktop displays, three tablets and four phones. The video sits in the screen's perspective, with the pointer and clicks on it, and stays sharp however far the camera zooms.
Zooms into the photo. The automatic zooms push into the photo toward what you click. Framing sets where the camera rests, from the whole scene to the screen filling the frame, and Zoom with the edit can be switched off to hold that shot for the whole video. Drift adds a slow push-in while the camera rests.
A tidier Card section. With a device chosen, padding, corners and shadow are hidden, since the photo is the whole picture. Phones and upright tablets are offered for vertical recordings. Projects that used the old drawn devices open on the nearest photo.
0.9.38
Privacy masks hide everywhere. The thumbnail in the library is drawn with your masks. A step guide can't be exported until every picture in it carries your latest masks, even if you edited a step while it was still updating, and text under a mask is never read to name a step.
Undo puts a trim back whole. Undoing a trim that moved both ends restores both. Before, only one came back, which could leave nothing of the recording.
Captions. Chinese and Japanese captions keep their word timing, so cutting a few words cuts just those. Caption files never show two lines at once, and a slightly off timestamp from the on-device captioner no longer throws the whole transcript away.
Music. Music in 5.1 surround no longer crashes Capta. Exports reuse the beat the editor already found instead of working it out again, and a track whose beat can't be found still exports. An online track that downloads as something other than audio is never kept.
Webcam. If the camera stops partway through a take, the bubble hides instead of showing a frozen face, and the ring on squircle and hexagon bubbles is drawn whole.
Hudu. Pushing again after changing the Hudu address creates a new article instead of overwriting one on the new instance, an article deleted in Hudu is created afresh, and pushing no longer freezes Capta while the pictures are prepared.
Smaller things. Settings survive a value this version doesn't know. Exporting while captions are still being made waits for them rather than making them twice, and Cancel still stops it. Cancelling a scrolling capture is no longer reported as an error.
0.9.37
A smoother camera. The Smooth camera moves like a real one: it sets off the moment it needs to, settles gently, and carries straight on when the next move comes instead of stopping dead in between. Zooms go into the pointer, so what you are pointing at stays put while the picture grows around it. A new video opens on the whole view and then zooms in.
No chasing the mouse. When the pointer shoots across the screen, the camera shows the whole view and comes back in where you land, rather than panning after it. Small wiggles and a hand resting on the mouse move nothing: the camera follows only to where the pointer comes to rest, and the pointer itself holds still.
Better motion blur. Motion blur (the Pointer tab, “Motion blur on fast moves”, off by default) now works like a camera shutter: pans streak along the pan and zooms streak out from the point being zoomed on, while still shots stay sharp.
0.9.36
Full-screen apps record right. Recording a window that is in full screen, like Chrome after the green button, now records its screen. Before, the video came out smaller than the screen with black edges, and the pointer landed away from where you clicked.
0.9.35
A proper welcome. A new install opens with a short tour of recording, the automatic edit, narration and sharing, then a permissions page. It says what each permission is for, which one is needed (Screen Recording) and which can wait, and ticks each one green as you switch it on. When macOS needs Capta to relaunch, the page does it and brings you straight back. Help › Welcome Tour opens it any time.
A nicer installer. The download opens to a window that shows where to drag Capta, and the disk image has Capta's icon.
0.9.34
Anonymous usage data. Capta now sends a few anonymous events, like a recording finished or an export failed, so the places people get stuck can be fixed. No ID is saved between launches, and nothing from your recordings, files or screen is sent. Turn it off in Settings › General › Privacy. The privacy page lists exactly what is sent.
0.9.33
Cut idle time keeps what matters. Only real dead air is cut. Moving the pointer to show something, anything changing on screen (a page loading, a list updating, an animation, a game) and an open dialog all stay in the video. A pause has to last 2.5 seconds before it is cut, and the shortest cut is a second.
Watch full screen. A button at the end of the play controls, or ⇧⌘F, shows just the video, full screen. Esc brings the editor back.
A tidier editor. Fit selection and Original frame sit at the top right, the settings toggle at the bottom of the icon rail, and the timeline drops its header and hint. The Masks lane shows up only when a recording has masks, a selected zoom's controls float over the timeline, and time labels stay inside it.
No more squeezed editor. Opening the settings pane widens a narrow window, and the window can't be made narrower than the editor needs. Export shows just its icon when the top bar is tight.
0.9.32
A smooth camera, now the default. Every zoom and move eases in and out instead of snapping. The camera zooms in just before a click so it has landed by then, frames the place you are working rather than the exact click, and moves with the pointer. It zooms out on its own while you scroll, while a dialog or popup is open in the middle of the screen, and on the way to a click across the screen. Near the edge of an app it shows a band of the backdrop rather than squeezing the target against the border. Steady and Glide are still in the sidebar under Edit › Auto zoom.
Every recording starts fresh. A new recording starts with Capta's own look and camera, whatever the last one was changed to. Presets and changes apply to the recording you make them on.
The pointer grows with the zoom. Close in, it stays as easy to follow as the rest of the picture.
Windows first. Window is the first choice in the capture panel and the menu bar, and ⌥⌘5 records the window in front instead of the whole screen, so a take comes out without the menu bar, the Dock or other open windows.
A card by default. A new recording sits on a rounded card with a shadow over a soft purple backdrop. Look › Full frame shows it edge to edge.
A quieter editor. The settings pane starts closed with only its icons showing; an icon opens its tab and closes it again. The pane runs the full height of the window, in full screen too.
60 fps exports. The Social, Reels and Square presets export at 60 frames per second. The App Store presets stay at 30, which Apple requires.
0.9.31
Every recording starts without a logo. A logo put on one recording used to carry over to every new one. Now a new recording starts with an empty Style › Logo, and recordings that already have a logo keep it.
Exports go to the Desktop. Unless you choose another folder in Save to, an export is saved to the Desktop instead of beside the recording in the library. Beside the recording is still an option.
0.9.30
Area recordings keep their length. If you recorded an area and stopped from the menu bar, the video could come out one second long. macOS puts its Stop Sharing panel over the area, Capta took your click on it for part of the demo, and the edit was trimmed down to that click. A click in the last half second of a take is now ignored, so the whole recording is kept.
Cut idle time off means nothing is cut. With the switch off, the edit used to trim the start and the end to your first and last click anyway. Now it keeps them.
0.9.29
Nothing styled until you style it. A new Capta used to put every recording on a rounded card with a shadow, floating on an indigo gradient, before you had asked for any of it. Now it leaves the recording as you made it: full frame, square corners, no backdrop, no shadow, no logo, no device frame. The automatic camera, the pacing and the sounds are unchanged.
The card is a button away. Settings › Backdrop says the recording fills the frame and offers Put on a card, which gives it the padding, corners and shadow that used to be there. The same line sits under the device frame picker in Style, since a frame needs room around the recording. Look › Clean still does the card and a backdrop in one click.
Reset look. New in the Look menu: every creative setting back to plain — backdrop, card, logo and device frame — leaving your devices, shortcuts, notes and export folder alone. Settings you have already saved are yours and are not changed by this update; Reset look is how you get to the new plain start.
0.9.28
Dissolves between shots. With the Steady camera, going from one zoomed-in shot to another is now a short dissolve instead of a camera move: the same moment, framed both ways, blends across in about a third of a second and finishes just before your click. A jump across the screen, which used to be a cut, dissolves too and finishes once your pointer is inside the new frame. Zooming in from the full screen and pulling back out are still camera moves. The preview shows the dissolves exactly as they export.
A switch for it. Dissolve between shots sits under the Camera picker in the sidebar's Edit tab. It is on by default; off, the camera behaves as in 0.9.27.
0.9.27
Quicker moves, longer shots. The Steady camera now gets where it is going in about a third of a second instead of half. It keeps its zoom while you keep working, changing depth only after six seconds, and it follows the pointer only when the pointer nears the edge of the frame, at most every two seconds. On the same test recording the camera now moves 12% of the time, down from 23% in 0.9.26.
No more missed zooms after a pause. After the Steady camera pulled back in a quiet moment, the next clicks near the old spot could be skipped. It now zooms back in.
0.9.26
A steadier camera. The automatic camera used to move for almost half of a video, in slow glides where the zoom kept creeping after the pan had stopped. Now it holds a shot while you work in one place, waits five seconds of quiet before it pulls back, and moves in about half a second with the pan and the zoom landing together. When the next click is on the far side of the screen and the camera is zoomed in, it cuts there once your pointer arrives. On a test recording the camera moved 22% of the time instead of 43%.
Glide is still there. Settings › Edit › Auto zoom › Camera switches back to the old floating camera. Zoom depths are unchanged either way.
0.9.25
The area selector and the window picker work over a full-screen app. 0.9.24 moved them to the desktop in front of you, but a full-screen app's Space still refused them, and they opened back on the desktop where Capta's editor was. Both now open over the full-screen app, take Esc and typing there, and leave you where you are: Capta no longer comes to the front to show them.
0.9.24
The area selector opens where you are. With Capta's editor on another desktop, the area selector and the window picker opened over there, out of sight. They now open on the desktop in front of you, full-screen ones included.
Esc cancels the area selector. The key never reached it. It does now, Return records the last area again, and a right-click cancels too.
One selector at a time. Choosing Area twice left a second dimmed layer on the screen that took every click until Capta was quit. A new selector replaces the one before it, and the window picker and the area selector close each other.
0.9.23
A step-by-step guide from the same take. Switch the editor from Video to Guide (⇧⌘G). Every click becomes a numbered screenshot with the control boxed and a sentence under it. Typing, shortcuts and long scrolls get steps of their own, and the last still shows the result. Edit a sentence, add a tip, pick the frame before or after the click, zoom and move a still by hand, hide or merge steps, or black out a field on one still. Masks drawn on the video cover every still, a password field is always covered, and ⌘Z undoes each change.
The crop keeps the words that belong with the element. A focused still grows to keep a line it would have cut, the label beside a field, or the dialog the button sits in.
Ten templates. Knowledge base, Client handout, Support reply, Dark demo, Match the video, Minimal, Onboarding, Release notes, Print and Terminal. Behind them: the crop, a box or a spotlight on the element, circle or square badges, line weight, the colour, a card from the screenshot studio, the type and the page theme.
Four ways out, and Hudu. A PDF with an editable title page (subtitle, author, date, footer, the first still as a cover picture, left or centred). Markdown with a folder of PNGs. A web page with a sticky header, a sidebar of the steps, a search box, light or dark, and a Google Fonts family embedded in the file so readers download nothing. The clipboard, as rich text with the pictures. With a Hudu address and API key in Settings › Integrations, Export guide creates the knowledge base article with the pictures attached, and a second push updates it.
What is free and what the licence opens. Free, a guide leaves as a PDF or on the clipboard with the small capta.cam mark on each still. The same $19 licence removes the mark and opens Markdown, HTML and Hudu.
Sentences and descriptions from the on-device model. Apple Intelligence on macOS 26 or a downloaded Qwen writes the sentence under each step and, on request, a line about what the step does. Your own words are never overwritten. Without a model, the built-in templates write the sentences.
Buttons named from the pixels. Where an app names no control, Capta reads the label off the picture. New recordings also see inside Chrome and Electron apps, and report the button a click landed in rather than the text inside it.
Camera bubble shapes, and a camera column. Circle, squircle, rounded square, square, wide, tall, pill or hexagon. Or put the camera in a column on the left or right of the video: it stays in view the whole time while the screen zooms and pans beside it.
A steady bubble in the editor. The stage now reads the camera track in order, the way the export does, so the bubble no longer hops between frames during playback.
capta-guide. A command-line tool that writes the same guide from any .capta bundle.
0.9.22
The launch price. A license is $19 once while Capta is in 0.9; it becomes $39 at 1.0. A license bought now stays valid, and the free version is unchanged.
0.9.21
A working Buy button. The checkout link behind Buy a license in Settings › License changed; 0.9.20's led to a page that no longer exists.
0.9.20
A clearer License pane. Settings › License shows the state at a glance, a before-and-after of the mark, and either the key field with the way to buy or the way to disconnect this Mac so the license can move to another.
One way in. The Capta › License… menu item, which did nothing on some Macs, is gone; the Export sheet's Enter License… and Settings › License are the places.
0.9.19
Free with a small mark; $9 removes it. Every export now carries a small capta.cam mark bottom right, inside the picture, and the preview shows it too so nothing surprises. Recording and editing are never limited. A license is $9 once, sold through polar.sh, and takes the mark off every export.
Settings › License. Paste the key from your purchase email and press Activate. A license unlocks one Mac at a time: Disconnect from This Mac frees it for another, and the Polar customer portal can free a seat on a Mac you no longer have. Capta › License… and the Export sheet's Enter License… open the same pane.
What activation sends. The key, this Mac's name and the app version go to polar.sh once, and the key is re-checked there quietly every few days; a Mac that cannot reach polar.sh stays licensed. There is still no account and nothing else phones home. Privacy spells it out.
0.9.18
⌥⌘R opens the capture panel. The everyday shortcut now opens the panel from anywhere, and the same key stops or cancels a take in progress. ⌥⌘5 records the whole screen at once. Shortcuts you have re-recorded yourself are untouched.
A quicker menu bar. The dropdown is rows of one-click tiles: what to record, what rides along (mic, camera, system audio, notes), a screenshot instead, and the last three recordings with thumbnails.
Recording a window brings it forward. Pick a window that is behind other apps and it comes to the front, with the countdown centred over it.
Notes in the capture panel. Talking points for a take are a toggle beside Mic, Camera and Audio, with a pencil to write them; no trip to Settings.
Recordings open with one click. The Recordings window lost its double-click, its multi-select footer and its record bar.
A tidier editor. Purpose, Pace and Look are compact chips above the video with Customize as an icon; Saved sits beside undo and redo; What's New scrolls instead of growing past the screen.
0.9.17
A cinematic end card. A seventh card design: the last frame dissolves into the card, the backdrop pushes in under a soft bloom, the headline lands large with a glow and a light sweeping across its letters, an accent line grows beneath it and the line below rises in a beat later, with a low impact in the mix as it starts. Pick it in Cards; the preview shows exactly what the export writes.
Chapter titles as lower thirds. Chapter pills sit at the bottom-left inside the picture, so they no longer straddle a device frame's bezel in wide shots.
A longer sample. The included sample now ends with the dashboard updating after the invoice is paid, and its scroll returns to the top so the row click lands where it should.
0.9.16
No more zoom pulses. The camera used to change depth again before the last change had settled: zoom in on a click, snap wide for a short scroll, zoom straight back in. A change of depth now waits a beat and a half for the previous one to land. A short scroll between clicks keeps the depth and the camera pans instead; a long scroll still pulls wide once the zoom has settled. Hand-placed zooms and the key moment keep their own levels. On a real 94-second take this took the number of depth changes from 37 to 24 with no pulse left.
0.9.15
No more jolts at the edge of the screen. When a zoom aimed at a toolbar, sidebar or dialog near an edge, the picture used to stand still and then lurch into place. The camera now knows where the canvas ends: it aims inside it and glides the whole way, and a pull-back from an edge eases out instead of snapping to centre. Measured on real takes, the sharpest camera accelerations dropped five to eight times; the pointer path was already smooth and is unchanged.
The same camera on the stage and in the file. Preview and export evaluate one bounded trajectory, at every frame rate and from any seek.
0.9.14
Smoother camera following. The camera follows the pointer as it leaves a click, respects cropped output, and offers calmer following independently of zoom depth. Preview and export evaluate the same camera trajectory.
Keep the whole action. Automatic editing preserves drags and releases. Cursor positions stay accurate at clicks, including actions at the beginning and end of a take. Leaving the recording area no longer creates invented cursor travel.
Record first, edit when ready. Capta starts in the menu bar without opening an old video. Finishing a recording opens that video's editor. New recording is easier to find, and video-only controls stay hidden when nothing is loaded.
Control the result locally. Choose how long to keep a result, preview the retained range, or hold framing, follow the pointer and zoom out independently.
More resilient recording. Paused releases and input-tracking interruptions no longer leave stuck gestures. Source warnings recover when samples return, interruption history stays with the take, and partial audio and webcam tracks are preserved for recovery.
More careful keyboard capture. Typing activity is anonymous by default; text retention requires an explicit setting. Input is scoped to the captured source and unknown security classifications do not retain text.
Faster music search feedback. Search requests have bounded timeouts, recent results are cached, and service errors explain when to retry.
0.9.13
Each recording keeps its own look. Project settings, edits and imported images travel together. Atomic saves retain a recovery copy, and save failures offer Retry or Save a Copy.
An included sample and simpler editing controls. Try Capta before granting recording permission. Choose a purpose, pace and look, then open Customize for individual adjustments.
Privacy masks. Name and position solid rectangles, set their coverage, and inspect them in the timeline. Masks stay aligned through zooms and crops; they do not track moving details or remove audio and captions.
Correct the automatic edit locally. Select a zoom before changing it, inspect removed pauses, restore one pause, or reduce movement near the playhead. Numeric timing controls supplement dragging.
A clearer export sheet. Destination settings are a draft until Export. The preview and poster use those settings, while previous-file actions and advanced tuning stay out of the way.
Short GIF excerpts with progress and cancellation. Reuse a current MP4 when possible. Sharing, copying and dragging all check that the export contains the latest edits.
System, Light and Dark appearance. Clearer text and keyboard controls, accessible transcript word actions, and explicit labels for correcting captions versus cutting video.
Safer imports and clearer failures. Failed music replacement preserves the existing track; unresolved errors remain visible until dismissed. Basic diagnostics exclude private notes and paths; raw logs require an explicit choice.
0.9.12
Vertical presets fill the frame. Reels, Shorts, the iPhone App Store preview and the square preset switch Crop to fill on, so the recording fills the tall canvas and the camera follows the action.
Copy writing shows on the status line. "Writing the title and post…" under the preview; the large local model writes only when asked.
New installs are offered the weekly update check on the tour's last page.
Export progress on the Dock icon.
Close All Pinned Screenshots in the Screenshot menu; Help › Open the Sample any time.
A new guide: a vertical clip for Reels, Shorts and TikTok from a screen recording.
Smooth first look. Playback before the smooth preview is built decodes to the nearest keyframe, three times faster; scrubbing stays exact.
"Finishing…" on the Stop pill until a long take is written, instead of a blank moment.
The sidebar, tidied. The backdrop has its own tab beside Style, with the gallery and its colour, blur and motion controls in one scroll; the pointer styles sit on a grid with room for their pictures; chapter rows are plain fields with the buttons on their own row; the pacing sliders show their value.
What’s New, per version. The sheet after an update lists what changed in the version you just got, with earlier versions folded below it.
Record Again remembers the window. After a window take, Record Again (⇧⌘R, the capture panel, the Dock menu) finds the same window by app and title and records it without the picker.
A quieter word on notifications. The first ready notice explains, once, that Capta’s notifications arrive quietly and where to turn them into banners.
The sample says how long it takes (about fifteen seconds) before it starts.
Support page lists Help › Send Feedback and Help › Report a Problem as the ways to reach us; the screenshots on the site are from this version.
Recordings that lost their video no longer appear in the library; Settings › Storage lists them and anything recovery set aside, with Show in Finder and Move to Trash. A take whose folder vanishes mid-write is reported, not recreated empty.
0.9.11
Straight to the countdown. The Ready to record panel shows the first time and whenever a device, a permission or the disk changes; a setup that recorded fine last time skips it. Settings › Recording brings it back for every take.
Record with Screen Recording alone. Input Monitoring and Accessibility are now recommended, not required: without them clicks are still tracked (typing and scrolling are not) and zooms follow the pointer. A strip in the editor offers the other two when you want the full edit.
Pause. A Pause button on the Stop pill and ⌥⌘P from any app. Paused time is not in the video: footage, voice, camera and the click track continue without a hole.
You can see when it's done. A line under the preview names what is still running after a take — framing clicks, transcribing, naming chapters — and a notification says when the take is ready if you have switched away.
Downloads where you need them. Turn the mic on and the Voice tab offers the caption models; switch on AI chapters and the Edit tab offers the writing model. Settings › Models still lists everything.
Install and Relaunch. Check for Updates can now install the new version itself: the DMG is downloaded from capta.cam, its checksum and Developer ID signature checked, the app replaced in place and reopened.
Drag the export out. Drag the Export button, or the file row in the Export dialog, into Slack, Notion, Mail or Finder.
Help › Report a Problem. Writes the diagnostics zip and opens a mail draft with it attached.
VoiceOver. The capture panel, the player, the Stop pill and the permission screens now name their controls.
Device frames. A MacBook, browser window or phone drawn around the recording, in the Style tab. It zooms and glides with the card and casts its shadow.
Living backdrop. A switch in the Style tab lets the backdrop drift and breathe slowly, in the preview and the export.
Pointer spotlight. A fifth pointer style dims everything but a soft circle around the pointer, and fades with it.
Notes beside the take. Talking points in a floating panel from the countdown to Stop, written in Settings › Recording or on the Ready to record panel. Never in the recording; clicks and scrolls on it are not part of the edit.
The title, caption and post, where you can read them. The Cards tab shows what the model (or the templates) wrote for the video, editable, with a Copy button on each; they are written when a take is ready. The Export dialog has Copy Post beside the last export.
First look right after Stop. The preview plays from the master while the smooth proxy builds behind it, with a small progress pill instead of a wait. Long takes get a 1080p-class proxy that builds twice as fast.
Cut any stretch by hand. ⌥I and ⌥O mark a start and an end on the filmstrip (or right-click it), ⌥⌫ cuts between them: footage, voice and captions alike. Works without narration.
Caption look. Pill, bar or plain text; bottom or top; a size slider. In the Voice tab.
Chapters you can change. Rename or remove a chapter, add one at the playhead, and move the key moment (the strongest zoom) to the playhead. In the Edit tab under Semantic edit.
Export presets and a poster frame. YouTube, X / LinkedIn, Reels, square, App Store previews for Mac and iPhone, README GIF. Save Poster writes the frame under the playhead at the export size as a PNG.
Try the sample. The empty library offers a twenty-second synthetic demo to play with before recording anything.
A library you can manage. Size on disk per recording and in total, sort by date, length, size or name, ⌘-click several and move them to the Trash together.
Messages you can dismiss. The red line under the preview has a close button and clears when the next thing succeeds.
Passwords never reach the video. The pressed-keys overlay shows shortcuts only unless you switch on typed text, and nothing typed into a password field is ever shown either way.
Preview caches under control. Settings › General › Storage shows what the smooth-preview copies take and removes them in one click; caches unopened for a month go by themselves. They come back on demand.
Smoother sliders. Settings are written a moment after the last change instead of on every tick, and the recording's metadata is read once.
Music credit where it is needed. A Creative Commons track's credit shows in the Sound tab with a Copy button and is added to the written post and caption.
Find the window. The window picker has a search field; Return records the first match.
HEVC export. H.265 in the Export dialog: about half the bytes of H.264 at the same look, for 4K.
Screenshot studio: Copy Text and Pin. The text in a screenshot, recognised on the Mac, onto the clipboard; and the picture pinned as a floating window on top of everything.
Dropped frames, while it happens. The Stop pill says "dropping frames" when the Mac is under load, so you can close the heavy app mid-take.
One-click relaunch. When Screen Recording is granted while Capta runs, it offers the relaunch macOS needs.
Guides refreshed, and a new one: a landing-page video in ten minutes, with the sample.
Zoom the timeline. Pinch the lanes, ⌘= and ⌘−, ⌘0 to fit, scroll sideways to move; the lanes follow the playhead. Thumbnails multiply as you zoom. Long takes are workable.
Narration at one level. Speech is brought to a standard level before the volume slider, so a quiet built-in mic and a hot one come out the same; a soft limiter keeps the mix from clipping. Voice tab, on by default.
Exports named for people. The MP4 beside a recording is named after its title, or the app and a readable date, instead of a timestamp.
Find and replace in the transcript. A misheard product name fixed everywhere at once, in the timed words too. ⌘Z undoes it.
Chapters for YouTube. Copy the chapter list the way a description needs it; it is added to the written post.
The library keeps up. Recordings deleted or renamed in Finder leave the list within a moment, the list refreshes when Capta comes to the front, and a large library no longer stalls launch.
What's new after an update. A one-time sheet with the headline changes; Help › What's New shows it again.
The pointer parks before Stop. The last half second of the hand travelling to the Stop pill no longer moves the pointer or the camera.
Help › Keyboard Shortcuts opens the Shortcuts pane; the countdown's Cancel shows your own shortcut.
Aim a zoom. Right-click a zoom bar, Aim at a Point…, click the picture: that is where it looks from now on. Hand-added zooms too.
Record Again. ⇧⌘R records the same window, area or display as last time; the area picker opens on the last area and Return confirms it.
Brand colour and logo. A colour well in the Style tab for a plain backdrop in your colour; a PNG logo in any corner, with size and opacity, in the preview and the export. Presets carry both.
Move the library. Settings › General › Storage moves every recording, export and cache to a folder of your choice, an external drive included.
Where exports go. Beside the recording, the Desktop, Downloads or a folder you pick, remembered across takes.
Click sound level. A slider next to the click and whoosh toggles.
The Stop pill moves. Drag it out of the way; it comes back where you left it.
Exports announce themselves. A notification when an export or GIF finishes while you are in another app, and a time-left estimate on the progress.
Faster camera-bubble exports. The background blur's person matte is computed every third frame and reused; the live preview uses the fast level.
Vertical exports follow the action. With Crop to fill on a vertical or square canvas, wide shots centre on the pointer instead of the middle of the screen.
A microphone that drops out no longer takes the narration with it. When AirPods sleep or a USB mic is unplugged mid-take, recording carries on from the next microphone, the gap padded with silence, and the take says so.
Share via… AirDrop, Messages, Mail and the rest of the system's share sheet, for the last export, in the File menu and the Export dialog.
Search what you said. The library search matches transcript text.
Duplicate a recording (⌘D) to try another look; an APFS clone, so it costs no space until something changes.
The pointer parks at the start too, not only before Stop.
Zoom bars from the keyboard. Click or Tab to a bar, arrow keys nudge it a quarter second, Delete removes it.
Pictures in the library. Each recording shows a frame in the Recordings list.
Every key, listed. Settings › Shortcuts now shows the fixed editor keys too.
Send Feedback… in the Help menu, a plain mail draft; a one-time invitation after the third export.
Record Again everywhere. In the capture panel, the menu-bar panel and the Dock icon's menu, which also starts a recording or opens the panel. The menu-bar panel lists the three most recent recordings.
Quiet notifications. The "ready" and "export finished" notices arrive quietly in Notification Center instead of asking permission mid-work.
0.9.10
Qwen automatic captions. Download Qwen3-ASR 0.6B and its word-timing model in Settings › Models (1.84 GB total). Transcribe narration locally on macOS 14 or later, without an account, upload or subscription. Apple Speech remains available on macOS 26+.
Choose captions separately. Switch the caption provider in Models or Voice without changing the writing model. Existing captions stay intact; use Voice › Transcribe again to regenerate them.
Word timing and readable captions. Nine languages support measured word alignment. Other transcription languages, including Greek, use approximate timing. Long recordings are processed in chunks, with punctuation preserved when words match.
Cancel safely. Cancel transcription from Voice. Failed or cancelled retries preserve previous captions; successful replacements keep a backup.
0.9.9
Free, without a license. No account, trial limit or watermark. The license and paid-release screens have been removed.
Choose your editing assistant. Settings › Models offers built-in templates, Apple Intelligence, or optional downloads of Qwen3 0.6B and 1.7B. Qwen runs locally to suggest titles, chapters and moments to emphasize from recording events and narration text. Downloads can be cancelled or removed. Speech transcription remains a separate macOS 26 feature.
Check before recording. A preflight panel shows your source, camera preview, microphone level, permissions and available storage before the countdown starts.
Preview the complete video. Title and end cards now appear in playback with the same frame timing as the export.
Safer exports and sharing. Failed or cancelled exports preserve the previous file. Sharing detects edits made since the last export and uses a stable copy of the exported video.
More resilient recovery and captions. Recovery preserves damaged event logs and quarantines unreadable recordings. Failed transcription can be retried without replacing authored captions with a fallback.
0.9.8
Recordings a tenth of the size. The master recording is now hardware-encoded HEVC at a high bitrate instead of ProRes: the same look, about 120 MB a minute at a 5K display instead of several gigabytes, so a long take fits on the disk. ProRes 422 LT stays as an option under Settings › Recording for anyone who wants the edit-grade master.
Licenses, ahead of time. Capta stays free while it is in beta. The plumbing for the paid release is in: Capta › Enter License… accepts a key that is checked on your Mac, with no account and nothing phoning home. Nothing changes for you until the paid release.
0.9.7· Stability
A recording survives anything. Force-quit Capta, let it crash, pull the power: the take is in your library when Capta comes back, playable, with its narration, camera and events, missing at most the last second. Recordings are written so that an unfinished file still plays, and Capta finalizes it on the next launch.
Quit that quits. ⌘Q used to do nothing while the Export, Recordings or another sheet was open. Now it works everywhere, and ⌘Q during a take finishes the take before Capta goes.
Export Diagnostics. In the Help menu: versions, permissions, settings, Capta's own log and the newest crash reports, zipped on the Desktop to send with a bug report. Never your recordings. After a crash, Capta offers it on the next launch.
Camera and microphone warnings. When a source is switched on but macOS has denied Capta access, the Camera and Voice tabs say so before the take, with a button to Privacy Settings.
Cleaner audio lane. One loud knock on the microphone no longer flattens the rest of the waveform to a hairline.
Every release is driven through the whole app before it ships. Recording in every mode, playback with sound, export in every format, quitting, crashing and recovering — checked in the real app, not only in unit tests.
0.9.6
Speed regions by hand. A speed lane under the zooms shows where the video runs faster or slower than real time. Double-click to speed up a stretch, right-click for 0.5× to 4×, drag to move, drag the edge to stretch. Set an automatic typing speed-up back to real time with one click.
Crop the frame. Four sliders in the Canvas tab trim a menu bar, a dock or a sidebar out of the recording. Zooms still land on what you clicked.
The bubble goes anywhere. Put the camera bubble at any spot on the canvas, set how far it sits from the edges, and have it shrink as the camera pushes in so a zoomed shot isn't half face. The live self-view follows.
Captions as a file. Save the narration as SubRip (.srt) or WebVTT (.vtt), timed to the export with the title card included, from the Export dialog or the File menu.
Export controls. Choose Smaller, Balanced or Best for the MP4's bitrate, and the GIF's frame rate, width and whether it loops.
Backdrop blur. A Blur slider in the Style tab softens a photo or pattern behind the recording.
Look presets. Save the current camera, pacing, style, pointer, bubble, cards, canvas and export settings under a name and apply them to any recording, from the Style tab.
Cleaner shadows. The camera bubble's and the card's drop shadows no longer draw a faint dark cross across the canvas, which showed most with a rounded-square bubble.
0.9.5
Sound in the editor. Music, narration, system audio and click sounds now play in the preview, in sync with the picture at every speed — not only in the exported file. A track whose beat can't be detected still plays; cuts just don't snap to it.
Delete the words, the footage goes. In the Voice tab the transcript is the edit: select words and delete them, and the video, captions and timeline follow. Restore with another delete.
Window recordings framed right. A crop-to-fill left on from a vertical canvas no longer zooms a tall window into a 16:9 canvas. Crop-to-fill applies only where its control is offered and never crops away most of a window's height.
One editor, every time. After a recording the editor comes back as the same window. It could open a second one and leave the preview black until you scrubbed.
Record Window from anywhere. The window chooser is its own panel, so it opens with the editor closed, minimized, on another Space, or busy with a sheet.
A take with no speech says so. When the mic recorded next to nothing, Capta tells you instead of leaving the captions empty. A network hiccup during recognition no longer costs the transcript.
0.9.4
Settings tabs down the side. The nine tabs are a vertical rail on the sidebar's edge, all visible at once, and the sidebar starts at the top of the window. The top bar is drawn by Capta itself now, so everything up there is clickable.
A tour worth taking. The welcome tour has four live scenes: a recording in progress, the edit assembling itself, a voice becoming captions, an export becoming a link.
No more black stage. While a recording's preview is prepared, its first frame is shown under the progress instead of a black box.
0.9.3
A sharp preview. The editor's preview is now composed at your screen's own pixels from a proxy up to 2560 px wide (all-intra HEVC, decoded in hardware), so zoomed-in shots show real detail instead of a stretched 720p frame. The proxy is rebuilt once per recording the first time you open it.
0.9.2
Background noise removal. Fans, hum and room hiss are learned from the pauses in your take and gated out of your voice. One toggle and a strength slider in the Voice tab; applied in the mix, so the recording itself is untouched.
See yourself while you record. With the camera on, a live bubble appears from the countdown onward, where the output bubble will sit. It is on your screen, never in the recording, and you can drag it.
Pick the mic and camera where you start. A chevron on the Mic and Camera toggles in the capture panel and the recordings window lists your devices.
A real player. The video sits flush in a black stage; the timeline is a bottom panel with a full transport bar: go to start or end, five seconds, a frame, loop, and playback speed.
Nine settings tabs. Pointer, Music and Voice have their own tabs; the strip scrolls.
The window fits its content on launch, both ways. The tab strip hides with the sidebar.
0.9.1· Fix
Global shortcuts fixed.⌥⌘R had been toggling the capture panel instead of starting a recording; each shortcut now dispatches by its own ID.
Countdown and Stop panels stay up. They no longer disappear after a second when Capta hides itself to record.
0.9.0
A timeline you can grab. Zoom, audio and words lanes on one axis. Drag a zoom to move it, its edge to stretch it, right-click to change its level or delete it. Every change is undoable.
Share. One click copies the export into your iCloud Drive and Apple's sharing sheet hands you a view-only link.
Six title and end card designs, previewed live, in your accent colour on your own background.
Editable transcript. Every narration line sits on the timeline and in the Sound tab; retype a word and the caption follows.
Tabbed Settings with custom shortcuts. Re-record any shortcut. Countdown before a recording. Mute notifications while recording via your own Shortcuts.
Screenshot editor. Select, move, resize and delete marks; redo; crop; pen; share. Scrolling capture stitches a whole page.
Choose the microphone and camera in Settings.
First-run tour with your actual shortcuts, and Help → Capta Help opens the support page.
Fixed a crash while building the preview right after a recording. Zero compiler warnings.
0.8.0
Capture robustness. A window you drag mid-take stays framed; failures are loud instead of silent.
System audio recorded and kept wherever the video runs at normal speed.
Title and end cards, rename and search in the library, and Spotlight finds every take.
Opt-in weekly update check, off by default. Loud warnings when a shortcut conflicts with another app.
Inspector tab shortcuts moved to ⌘1–⌘6; ⌥⌘5 is the capture panel.
0.6.0
Music trim. Drag the start and end of the song on its own timeline; the start snaps to the beat grid so cuts stay on beats.
Inspector tabs in the title-bar row, an About window, a music remove button, and online music search in a proper sheet with preview.
0.5.0
Camera bubble styles, 16 new backgrounds, and online music search of Creative Commons tracks through Openverse.
0.4.1· Fix
Microphone and camera work under the hardened runtime.
0.4.0
Camera bubble in a corner of the recording. Three built-in music tracks.Check for Updates, manual only, fetching a single version file.
Mic and camera toggles at the point of recording. A General settings pane with permissions, updates and storage.
0.3.0
Screenshot studio upgrade: arrows, numbered steps, spotlight, blur, restyling on the same backgrounds as videos.
Design overhaul of the editor. Sidebar hidden by default.
0.2.0
Apple Intelligence, on-device. Titles, captions and social posts written from what happened on screen; the model sees the names of elements you clicked, never what you typed.
Narration. Mic capture, captions transcribed on your Mac, cuts steered around your sentences, music ducked under your voice.
Vision framing. When an app hides its widgets from accessibility, Vision finds the dialog in the pixels so the zoom still lands.
Hero moments and chapters. The payoff click gets the strongest zoom; chapters get titles.
0.1.0· First release
Automatic zooms on the element under each click, dead-air cuts, typing and loading sped up with eased ramps, cuts landed on the beat of your music, live preview, and export up to 4K. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized.