Cap records your screen, edits the take, and hands back a shareable link, free for recordings up to five minutes
The quickest way to explain something is often to show it, and the tool for that no longer has to be a subscription.
Cap is an open source screen recorder with native apps for macOS and Windows plus a Chrome extension for browser capture. Instant Mode uploads while you record, so the shareable link exists the moment you stop, and the service generates a title, summary, chapters, and a transcript afterward; Studio Mode records locally at full quality and opens a timeline editor that can zoom around cursor clicks, display your keystrokes, add captions, and blur anything sensitive before you send it. Recordings can stay on your own machine or go to your Google Drive, an S3 bucket, or Cap's servers, and the code is published on GitHub for anyone who would rather self-host it. The free plan is the honest catch: five minute recordings, five minute share links, and no commercial use, with a desktop license listed at $29 a year for commercial rights and unlimited local recording, and Cap Pro at $12 a month billed monthly.
