Captist - Screen Recorder & Auto Zoom

Free screen recorder & video editor with auto zoom. Record a tab or any window, zoom where you click, export up to 4K.

Captist is a free screen recorder and video editor for Chrome with automatic zoom. Record a browser tab or any app window with your microphone and webcam, and Captist zooms in where you click, follows your cursor and exports a polished MP4 video up to 4K. It also takes screenshots of the visible area, a selected area, one element or the full page. ✨ KEY FEATURES 🎥 Automatic Zoom Never place a keyframe again. Captist turns your clicks into smooth zooms and follows your cursor between them. Back-to-back zooms hand off without zooming out, and every zoom is a clip you can move, retime or delete. 🌀 Motion Blur & 3D Tilt Zooms and pans blur like a real camera move, and 3D tilt turns the frame in perspective for a studio look. 🔒 Privacy Built In Mask passwords, emails and API keys on the page while you record, and blur anything else in the editor. Recording, editing and export all happen on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to the cloud. 🎨 Backgrounds & Frames Wallpapers, gradients, colours or your own image behind the recording, with padding, rounded corners, border and shadow. Frame sizes for 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1. 🖱️ Clicks & Keystrokes Click ripples and on-screen keyboard shortcuts show viewers exactly what you did. 📸 Screenshots Capture the visible area, a selected area, a single element or a full page, then polish it in the editor. ⚡ Fast Local Export Export MP4 up to 4K, rendered on your computer. Free exports go up to 1080p with a small watermark; Captist Pro adds 1440p and 4K, audio and webcam, and removes the watermark. 🎯 PERFECT FOR - Product demos & walkthroughs - Bug reports & technical support - Tutorials & online courses - Social content (YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn) 💻 On Windows? Captist for Windows records your whole screen natively on your GPU, with system audio, and opens the same editor. ● Changelog v1.0.5: - NEW: Mask sensitive fields while recording. Passwords, emails and keys are covered on the page before they reach the video. Let Captist find them or pick fields yourself, and choose the cover colour. - NEW: Optional alert if a tab stops being masked during a recording (Chrome asks for the notification permission only when you turn masking on). - NEW: Redesigned recorder with a separate start step and a countdown on the page you record. - NEW: Redesigned popup that shows your capture shortcuts, with a link to change them. - NEW: Upgrade to Pro opens the plan picker: monthly, yearly or lifetime. - IMPROVED: Recording starts faster, and the window you pick stays selected until you press Start. - IMPROVED: Screenshots open the editor in their own window. - IMPROVED: Works with the redesigned Captist editor: motion blur, 3D tilt, redaction and faster 4K export. - FIXED: The recorder tab is reused instead of opening duplicates, and recording safeguards no longer interfere with each other. Changelog v1.0.4: - Improved screen recording reliability on macOS with external displays - Fixed recording start issues when selecting a secondary monitor - Improved desktop capture constraints to avoid incorrect display size detection - Added fallback handling for capture frame rate compatibility - Improved validation for live video tracks before recording starts - Improved overall recording stability for multi-display setups Changelog v1.0.3: - Improved recording handoff to open the Captist editor more reliably after stopping - Improved macOS recording compatibility and editor import reliability - Added smarter handling for video format detection after recording - Saved microphone and camera selections for a faster setup experience - Improved overall stability for the recording and editing flow Changelog v1.0.2: - Added a new popup with dedicated Record and Screenshot workflows - Added screenshot modes: Selected Area, Element, Visible Part, and Full Page - Added keyboard shortcuts for capture actions - Improved screenshot annotation tools and editor flow - Fixed popup and screenshot transfer issues Changelog v1.0.1: - IMPROVED: Recording stability on all platforms.