What's new in Kapture

Kapture updates itself — when a version below is newer than yours, the app offers it on its next check.

1.10.0 — September 13, 2026

Timelines can hold other timelines, keyframe animations can blur as they move, and agents can make a whole edit in one step.

New

Timelines inside timelines. Drag a timeline’s tab onto the timeline and it lands as one block at that point, labelled with its name — build a title sequence once and drop it into every cut. A block holds pictures, videos and text; a timeline with sound, captions, zooms or masks is refused with a note to use Insert instead, and nesting goes one level deep.
Insert clips from another timeline. The stack button in the timeline bar copies another timeline’s clips in at the playhead, as separate clips you can keep editing.
Move Selection to New Timeline. Select several clips, right-click, and they move into a timeline of their own.
Motion blur on keyframe animations. Each bar in Keyframe Animation has a Motion blur switch and a Blur strength slider, so a clip that slides or scales fast smears the way a camera would see it.
Agents edit many clips in one step. get_edit_state reads the whole timeline, and apply_edit_batch changes up to 500 clips, sounds and settings together without moving the playhead or the selection — checked first, so a bad edit changes nothing. manage_shortcuts lists and changes keyboard shortcuts, and manage_timelines can nest, insert and extract.

Changed

The timeline shows a scroll bar, and scrolls smoothly with many lanes.
The timeline bar has an expand button for the tall timeline (⇧⌘T).
A picture or video can be parked well clear of the canvas, and made much smaller than before.

Fixed

Dropping a video from Finder on the welcome window did nothing. It opens now, and anything that is not a video says so.
Media dragged in from another app could vanish before it was imported. Kapture keeps its own copy of the dropped file now.

1.9.1 — September 11, 2026

A recording now lives in one place: its project.

Fixed

Deleting a project deletes its footage. Every recording was kept twice — once inside the project, and again in a hidden folder named by a code that said nothing about which project it came from — so deleting a project left its video behind, taking up disk space with no way to tell whose it was. A new recording now moves into its project instead of being copied, which is also instant, and nothing is left behind. Takes added to an open project move in the same way.

Recordings made before 1.9.1 still have their leftover copy in ~/Library/Application Support/Kapture/Recordings. Every project holds its own footage, so once your projects open as expected you can move that folder’s contents to the Trash.

1.9.0 — September 7, 2026

The recording becomes a clip like any other: tilt it in 3D, animate it with keyframes, drag it off the canvas. Captions export as text or subtitles.

New

3D tilt. In the Video tab, turn on Tilt and pick one of nine directions, then set Amount and Perspective. It works on the whole recording, on one trimmed segment, or on any picture or video you have placed, and a tilted clip can still be scaled past the edge of the canvas. Keyframe animations carry the lean too, so a clip can turn from flat to tilted as it moves. Agents pass tilt to manage_clips (action: layout) or to set_canvas.
Keyframe animations on the recording itself. Select a recorded segment, press ⌘K, and its Position, Size, Opacity and Tilt write the pose at the playhead, so the recording can slide across the canvas, shrink into a corner, fade, or lean over mid-sentence. Agents pass a plate to manage_clips with action: layout.
The recording has a box on the canvas. Click it to select it, drag it to move it — off the frame entirely if you like — and pull a corner to resize it, the same as a picture. Click the padding around it to deselect.
Export captions. At the bottom of the Captions tab, Export writes the captions as Text (the words in paragraphs, for drafting a LinkedIn or X post), SRT or VTT. Timings follow the edited video, so cuts are left out. manage_captions gets action: export.
Camera over full-screen captions. A full-screen caption has a Camera visible switch that keeps the camera bubble on top of it, in its usual place.
More easings. Cubic and Exponential in, out and in-out, plus Back In (anticipate) and Back Out (overshoot), on keyframe animations.
Snap to centre. Dragging a picture, video or the recording on the canvas sticks to the middle when it comes close, with guide lines. Hold ⌘ to place it exactly where your hand puts it.
Music bed controls. The Audio tab can choose, replace and remove the music track, set its level, and duck it under speech — this was agent-only before.
open_project takes foreground: false, so an agent can open a project without bringing Kapture in front of what you are doing.

Changed

Keyframe bars on a clip can be selected, moved and resized directly on the timeline, and a short bar is easier to grab. The section is called Keyframe Animation, the command Create Keyframe Animation, and its duration is a slider like the entrance and exit ones.
Pictures, videos and the recording can all be dragged off the canvas.
The flag marker on the timeline shows a solid flag inside its chip, and the recording dock’s restart button uses a restart icon.
Clear Recent Projects asks first.
Settings masks the automation token in the Codex and Claude Desktop command lines until you reveal it; the config files it writes are readable only by you.
Changing Padding in the Canvas tab applies to every recorded segment, clearing any per-segment size overrides, so it is never a silent no-op.
⌘0 belongs to Fit Timeline alone.

Fixed

The flag button in the recording dock crashed the app, and played a chime. It does neither now.
X (Cut Previous Clip) on a recording with a linked camera deleted the clip without closing the gap. It ripples every time now, and ⇧⌦ (forward delete) works alongside ⇧⌫.
A licence that hit its device limit was remembered as revoked on the next launch, hiding the real fix. It reads as “device limit” now.
Exports started from an agent write to a hidden file and replace the destination only when they finish, so a cancelled or failed export leaves the previous file alone. Exports also take a snapshot of the project first, so editing while one runs is safe.
Opening a long video no longer freezes the window while its audio is extracted.
Gradient backgrounds honour every colour stop.
Stopping a recording tears down the camera and microphone even when the screen file fails to finalise.
The automation server answers a malformed request with an error instead of going down.

1.8.3 — September 6, 2026

Codex connects with one button, backgrounds can be any gradient you like, and the editor’s chrome is quieter.

New

Connect Codex with one button. The Codex row in Settings → Automation now has Connect: it writes Kapture into ~/.codex/config.toml, which the Codex app inside ChatGPT, the Codex extension and the codex command all read, and turns into Remove so you can take it out again. Start a new Codex thread afterwards.
Gradient backgrounds. Under Canvas → Background, pick Solid, Linear or Radial, then set each colour with a picker or by typing a hex value. Linear gradients take an angle; radial ones take a radius and a centre. The presets are grouped into gradients and solid colours, and a project saves the colours themselves, so a preset can change later without changing your video.
Agents can set gradient backgrounds too. set_canvas accepts a gradient kind of linear or radial and a radius.

Changed

Quieter chrome. The inspector card, the timeline bar and the welcome window drop their hairlines and glows for flat surfaces; timeline bars are shaded more lightly; sliders track natively with a compact thumb; the pointer becomes a resize cursor over pane dividers.

1.8.2 — September 4, 2026

Empty panels are quieter, dragging a pane divider keeps up with the pointer, and an agent’s delete range now cuts every lane.

Changed

Delete range cuts every lane. When an agent removes a stretch with delete_range, the camera, sound and overlays that played during it go too, and the hole closes once. Zooms and masks over the removed stretch are trimmed with it. Before, only the screen was removed and the camera kept playing over the cut.
Quieter empty panels. A panel with nothing in it shows a small tinted tile and a line of text instead of a glow.

Fixed

Dragging the divider between the canvas and the timeline, or between the timeline and the inspector, no longer lags behind the pointer.

1.8.1 — September 4, 2026

Delete never ripples, sound stays with its picture, masks can be placed, sized and moved anywhere, one piece of a recording can carry its own crop, and exports run at full speed again.

New

Masks anywhere. A mask drawn over a picture, a movie or a gap is pinned to the timeline where you drew it, so it always shows as a chip. Drag the chip to move it, or either edge to change how long it lasts. Click a mask on the canvas to select it, then drag its box or handles to move and resize it. Masks can be as small as you need.
Crop one piece of the recording. Select a trimmed segment and press Crop: that segment gets its own crop, starting from the recording’s, and the other segments are untouched. The cursor, zooms and masks follow it.
Freeze frame in the menu. Right-click any recorded clip for Freeze Frame at Playhead. It never moves clips it isn’t linked to.
Symmetric crop resize. Hold ⌥ while dragging a crop edge or corner to resize about the centre.
The zoom button asks where. The zoom button under the canvas now arms a selection: drag over the part of the frame to zoom into. Z still drops a zoom at the playhead.
Both audio switches act on the preview. Normalize voice and Reduce background noise each change what you hear while editing, not only the export.

Changed

Delete never ripples. Delete and Backspace remove the selection and leave the gap. Only ⇧⌫ and X close it.
Sound never re-attaches itself. Deleting a clip deletes the sound recorded with it. Detached audio stays on its own lane, and nothing links it back on a move or an edit.
No free trial. Pro is bought when you want a clean export. Recording, editing and captions stay free with a watermark on export.
The Canvas tab has a paintbrush icon, ten glossy wallpapers left the bundled pack, and the title row has its spacing back.

Fixed

Moving several clips at once no longer spreads them across separate lanes.
X on a stack of lanes removes the cut on every lane, then closes the hole once; it no longer slides one lane’s clip over the previous one.
Ripple-deleting a screen and its unlinked camera removes the sound too; no more doubled audio.
Blur masks now blur imported pictures and videos under them, not only the recording.
A marquee drag selects zooms and masks.
The left handle of an imported picture extends it.
The crop window no longer draws the camera bubble over the region.
Playing to the end no longer shows the opening frame.
Exports were decoding the recording from the previous keyframe on every frame of some stretches, and decoding the webcam twice. A five-minute export that took half an hour takes minutes.

1.8.0 — September 2, 2026

Every shortcut can be changed, the pointer has two new looks, imported pictures show in the preview again, and click sounds play at last.

New

Change any keyboard shortcut. Press ⌘/, click a shortcut, press the new keys. Delete removes one, Escape keeps the old one, and a key already in use swaps with the action that had it, so no key ever means two things. The recording hotkeys can be changed the same way. Every changed row has a ↺ back to its default, and Reset All in the footer.
A dot cursor. The Cursor tab’s styles gain a soft grey disc for recordings where an arrow would be noise, and each style is a tile you can see before you pick it.
Natural or Smooth pointer motion. A choice between the path as recorded and an eased one, with the strength slider under Smooth.
Tooltips that appear. Every button explains itself in a bubble above the pointer, with its shortcut beside the words.

Changed

One icon set. The editor’s icons are drawn as a single family of thin strokes, so a rail of eleven reads as one set rather than eleven glyphs of different weights.
The canvas shape and Crop sit together above the picture. “Wide 16:9” opens the four shapes, a custom ratio and the output size; Crop is beside it. The aspect ratio no longer appears on the Canvas tab or in the title bar, so it lives in exactly one place.
A quieter transport bar. Skip, play and skip, then Split, a + menu for pictures, video, voiceover and markers, and a … menu for ripple delete, delete and the speed of a selection, each item printed with its key.
Undo and redo moved to the right of the title bar, beside the tools, and the title bar itself sits on the same line as the traffic lights.
The inspector rail keeps its labels, and choice buttons across the panels are lighter: the same size as the buttons around them, no ring on the chosen one, and a row that scrolls sideways rather than squeezing a word to fit.
Twelve gradients and eight flat colours on the Canvas tab instead of sixty tiles, all of them quiet enough to sit behind a recording.
Timeline tabs are words, not bordered pills with coloured dots, and the active timeline is no longer repeated as a chip beside the project name.

Fixed

Imported pictures were black in the preview. An intro still or an image dropped on the timeline rendered in the export but showed nothing on the canvas. Every picture draws again.
Click sounds never played. The sound files were left out of the built app, so Off, Soft, Mouse and the rest all sounded the same: silent. They are bundled now, and the sample plays when you pick a style.
The welcome window’s recent-projects menu drew three giant black circles, and the Look Presets list came up empty, both from one icon drawn by the wrong layer.

1.7.0 — September 1, 2026

Recording again into an open project stopped being a special case, clips can be given an entrance and an exit from the timeline itself, and sound now leaves with the picture it belongs to.

New

Entrance and exit animations, one right-click away. The clip’s own menu offers both ends, listing only the moves that kind of clip can make, with a tick against the one in force. The camera bubble can have them now too — the Camera tab carries the controls, and the bubble fades or slides with the rest of the frame.
Sound fades with the picture. Fade a clip out and its audio goes with it instead of being cut off at full volume on the last frame. Fade a take and its screen, its camera and the voice recorded with them all leave together; fade only the screen while the camera keeps talking and the voice stays, because it belongs with the face.
Hold ⌘ while scrubbing to ignore snapping. The playhead lands exactly where you point instead of catching on clip edges, cuts, zooms and flags — for the frame just before the click, or the breath after the word.

Changed

A recording made while a project is open arrives as an import. It is a video clip on its own lane, with its own file and its own clock: crop it, trim it, move it, speed it up, exactly as if you had dragged it in from Finder. Its camera is still a camera — every bubble style applies to it and its microphone stays tied to it — and the original recording is left completely alone. Combining two recordings into one take is what produced the wrong footage, a crop that moved the wrong picture, and “no webcam track” on a take that had one.
Turning on an animation gives you three quarters of a second, and a fade now has a curve you can see. It used to be 58% opaque a quarter of the way in, which read as a cut with a blur on the front.
The Camera tab reads in the order you work in it — animation, size, then position, with the placement grid lined up with the nudge fields under it.

Fixed

A recording that came back without its camera or microphone. The recorder reported files it had not finished writing, so a project could open claiming a webcam track it did not have. It now reports only what actually landed on disk, and adopts recordings it finds beside the screen file — the take that went missing was still there, and is recoverable.
Deleting a clip no longer takes sound that still has a picture. Cutting a screen with the camera unlinked and still on the timeline used to take the voice with it. Three separate things were doing that; all three are fixed.
A ripple moves what came after the hole, not what ran beside it. Deleting a clip pulled an unrelated camera on another lane backwards.
Deleting a caption while its editor was open crashed the app.
The levels disappear when a clip’s audio is off. The waveform stayed drawn across a muted bar — a picture of audio that will not play.

1.6.3 — August 31, 2026

Exports that used to crawl now finish, and three things that were wrong in the finished file are right.

New

Drop a video on Kapture to edit it. On the Dock icon, or on the window it opens with. Finder’s “Open With” lists Kapture for videos now too — without making it the handler for every video on your Mac.
Favourite a project. Star one and it gets its own tab beside Recents, and it stays there however long ago you last opened it. The recents list only ever holds the last twenty; a starred project is never one of the ones that falls off.

Fixed

Exporting a short cut of a long recording is no longer a coffee break. A ninety-second cut of a twenty-five minute take spent over three minutes on “Rendering audio…” — because it was cleaning up all twenty-five minutes to use ninety seconds of it. It now works on the part your timeline actually reaches. On the recording this was found on: three minutes and never finishing, down to thirty-one seconds all in.
A sped-up clip keeps its voice. Speed changes sounded right in the editor and like chipmunks in the export. The editor stretches time; the export was resampling, which lifts a voice an octave. Both stretch now.
The spoken-word highlight stops flickering. In the pause between two words — and word timings are full of them — the highlight jumped to the last word of the line and back, several times a caption. It was in exported files as well as the preview.
Switching tabs mid-export no longer loses the export. Leaving the Export panel threw away the progress bar and the Cancel button. The export belongs to the project now, so it is still there, still running, when you come back.
⇧T cuts every lane. It bladed the picture and left the audio running through the cut, while ⌘T at the playhead cut both. Both keys make the same cut now, and so does an agent asked to split.

Changed

Caption presets are bold, never semibold. Semibold looks considered in a type specimen and disappears over moving footage. Clean and the style every new caption starts from were the last two using it.
Shout, Stack and Highlight are restyled. Shout is Bebas Neue caps in the middle of the frame with the spoken word picked out; Stack’s shadow sits the type on the picture instead of drawing an outline round it; Highlight is Inter at a tighter fit.

1.6.2 — August 30, 2026

Annotations grew up: shapes draw themselves on, arrows can be handled, and the exit animation that never ran now runs.

New

Shapes draw themselves on. An arrow, line, box or circle traces itself the way a hand would — tail to head, easing in and out along the stroke — and every new shape starts that way, with a fade waiting at the end. Undraw takes it back the same way.
MCP in the toolbar. Pointing an agent at Kapture meant knowing to look three levels down in Settings. There’s a button next to Presets that opens the Automation pane directly.

Fixed

Arrows can be moved and handled. Dragging an arrow by its middle moved a box you cannot see and left the arrow behind; grabbing either end fell through to the recording and scaled the video instead. Both ends now have a target far wider than the dot they are drawn as, and the arrow goes where you put it.
The exit animation ran at the wrong end. Undraw only ever fired during a shape’s opening, where there is nothing to undraw, so the shape simply stayed on screen. It now watches the end of the clip.
Settings opens from the app again. The button in the recording dock and the automation command had both stopped opening the window on recent macOS — the app menu’s Settings… was the only way in.
A shape stays put when the canvas is zoomed. Its selection box now lands on the shape rather than beside it.

Changed

A shape’s animation menu is Fade and Draw. The four slides it used to offer were a fade with 12% of drift behind them, which on something the size of an arrow is a fade. Titles keep the slides, where the travel is a real distance across the frame. Draw on also stops being offered to recordings and imported video, which have no line to trace.
The inspector panels are easier to scan. Each section heading carries a small mark, there is more room between sections, and the background buttons no longer tower over the controls above them.

1.6.1 — August 30, 2026

Pro now covers export resolution and frame rate as well as the watermark, and there are fourteen days of it free.

New

Try Pro free for fourteen days. No charge until day fifteen, cancel any time, and the button sits where the decision actually happens — above Export, and on the pricing section of the site.
Hear when Kapture gets better. The app updates itself but can’t tell you what changed. There’s an optional line on the download page now — an address and an unticked box — and a short note when something worth knowing about ships. Nothing is required to download; the file has never been traded for an address and won’t be.

Changed

Pro covers 4K and 60 fps export. Free exports are 1080p at 30 fps with the small corner mark, which is a full-quality, genuinely usable video and the resolution most things are watched at. Everything else stays free and unlimited: recording at your display’s full resolution, the whole editor, on-device captions, automatic zooms, the drawn cursor, every agent tool. Resting the entire case for paying on a mark in the corner asked people to pay for the absence of something rather than the presence of anything.
Picking a preset above the free ceiling tells you what you will actually get, rather than offering 4K and quietly returning 1080p.

1.6.0 — August 30, 2026

Draw on the recording: arrows, lines, boxes and circles, each with its own colour, weight and time on screen.

New

Shape annotations. The Text tab is now Annotate (⌘8), and it adds arrows, lines, boxes and circles as well as titles. Each one is a clip: it sits on a lane, trims to the time it should hold, and takes the same entrance and exit moves everything else does. Colour, thickness, and filled-or-outline are set per shape, so two arrows in the same recording can look nothing like each other.
Arrows are two points, not a box. An arrow tapers from a hair at the tail to its full weight at the head, so it has a direction you can see without following it. Drag either end on the canvas — that turns and lengthens it in one movement, because its direction is the line between the two points. Flip direction swaps the ends.
Turn a box or a circle. A knob above the shape spins it about its centre; hold Shift to snap to fifteen degrees. The outline, the handles and the pointer all turn with it, so a tilted box is grabbed at the corner you are pointing at and stretches along its own edges.
Shapes resize freely. A rectangle should be able to become any rectangle, so the handles move only the edges they touch. Hold Shift to keep the proportions. Pictures and video still hold theirs by default.
Every shape control is on the MCP too. manage_clips gained a shape action covering all of it — kind, colour, thickness, fill, rotation, both endpoints, flip, layout, duration and lane — and now reports a shape’s styling back when you list clips. Seven actions the app had always accepted (text, shape, duration, opener, intro, moveToTrack, compactTracks) were missing from the published tool and are now reachable.

Fixed

Clicking empty canvas puts the selection down. The recording lies under the whole canvas and answered every click that missed a shape, so clicking away from something selected the recording instead of clearing — there was no way left to select nothing. A click on the recording now clears, and a second one picks the recording up.
The resize pointer follows the shape. On a turned shape it stayed at the angle the shape started at, so the arrow lay across the edge it was meant to lie along.
The rotate knob has its own pointer instead of the open hand, which is the cursor for moving something.

1.5.14 — August 30, 2026

The sound belongs to the camera now, the waveform shows the whole recording, and switching timelines is instant.

New

Unlink a clip from the ones it moves with. A recording arrives as a screen and a camera that trim and drag as one, which is right until it isn’t — a camera that should hold while the screen is cut, or a screen shortened without losing the face over it. Right-click a clip to unlink it, or select two and link them back.
The voice travels with the camera. Move the camera and the microphone, the waveform and the captions all go with it. Only when there is no camera over a stretch does the screen carry the sound, which is how it always worked for recordings without one.

Fixed

The waveform showed the first forty-two seconds of a recording spread across the whole clip. Bars in the silences, nothing under the talking. It draws the real recording now, however long it is.
The waveform no longer runs your noise reduction over itself before drawing. Measured against a real take, that flattened the first twenty seconds of speech to nothing — and a waveform is how you find the moment you said something. Noise reduction still applies to what you hear and export.
Switching timelines is about seven times quicker — it was rebuilding every audio player and rewinding all of them, twice.
The update panel shows what actually changed instead of a line telling you to look elsewhere.

1.5.13 — August 29, 2026

Zooms can be aimed, the pointer shows its clicks, and a per-clip size finally survives being saved.

New

Choose where a zoom lands. A zoom used to settle dead centre on whatever you clicked, which is right when the recording fills the frame and wrong on a vertical canvas, where it dragged the whole composition down to meet the click. The Zoom tab now takes a nine-point choice and an X/Y percentage, per timeline. Centre is the default and nothing changes until you touch it.
The pointer presses when you click. A ripple and a click sound both arrive just after a click; nothing showed the click itself, so with the sound off there was no tell. Turn it off under Cursor if you’d rather.

Fixed

A clip’s own size, corner radius and position are saved. Giving one trimmed segment settings of its own worked until you closed the project — none of those values were being written to the file. They are now. Anything you set before this version was lost at save and will need setting again.
The timeline ruler stays put when you switch timelines. Scrolling down on one timeline and switching to another took the strip with the seconds on it off screen, and scrubbing with it, until you scrolled again.
The inspector’s tab rail is properly darker than the panel beside it. The previous attempt put the colour behind the panel’s blur, where it could not be seen.

1.5.12 — August 29, 2026

Titles stop climbing a staircase up the timeline, the camera stops flashing green, and the picture can be nudged off its anchor.

New

Move the picture off centre. The recording, the camera bubble and captions all take an X and Y offset now, in percent of the canvas, on top of the nine position buttons. The buttons say which edge; these say how far off it. How it works.
Edit every clip at once. Open the Video tab with nothing selected and it places, sizes and rounds every recorded segment together, instead of only telling you to click a clip. Select one to give that one its own.
Captions can move sideways, which they never could — a caption was always a centred band.
Tidy Overlay Tracks, in the command palette, packs titles and overlays down onto the fewest lanes their timing allows. It is the fix for a project already carrying a staircase, and it is undoable.
Clicking a recording on the timeline opens the Video tab rather than Canvas.

Fixed

Titles no longer take a new track each. Eleven labels that are never on screen together were being dealt eleven lanes, leaving a diagonal staircase you could not read past about six. The video always rendered identically, which is why nothing looked wrong until you opened the timeline. A new overlay now reuses the lowest lane that is free at that moment.
The camera bubble no longer flashes green while scrubbing. After a seek the system occasionally reports a frame is ready and hands back one the decoder has not filled yet, which arrives as flat green. Exports were never affected — they decode a different way — so this was only ever something you saw, not something you shipped.
Asking for a specific track through the automation API used to report success and do nothing. It works, and says why when it cannot.
“Horizontal” under Captions is now Text align, because that is what it does — it sets how the lines sit against each other, not where the caption goes.
The inspector’s tab rail is a shade darker again, so it reads as behind the panel beside it rather than part of it.

1.5.11 — August 29, 2026

Exports got dramatically faster. A ten-minute 4K project that took about half an hour now finishes in seven minutes.

New

Choose the frame rate, separately from the resolution. Export now has its own Preset / 30 fps / 60 fps control next to Quality. Screen recordings rarely need sixty, and picking thirty is the single fastest thing you can do to a long export. How it works.
Renaming a project renames its file. A project you called “UI Resources” used to sit on disk under the timestamp it was recorded at, so you could only find it from inside Kapture. Now the file follows the name you give it.
Twenty recent projects on the start screen instead of ten.

Fixed

Captions and titles were being drawn at four times the size they needed, then shrunk back down, on every single frame. Worse, one of those oversized frames filled the whole cache, so a shot carrying both a caption and a title redrew both from scratch thirty times a second. Fixing it is most of the speed above, and it applies to any project with text or captions — which, since captions are on by default, is most of them.
The compositor was throwing away the background it had just prepared twice a second, then rebuilding it. Exports at 4K60 are about half again as fast on their own.
The estimated file size now moves when you change the frame rate. It used to report the same number for thirty and sixty, which made the cheaper choice look like it saved nothing.

1.5.10 — August 28, 2026

The canvas got a proper zoom, and connecting Claude Desktop became a button instead of a config file.

New

Zoom lands where your pointer is. Zooming used to scale about the middle, so aiming at a corner walked it off screen. Zooming back to fit recentres.
Pan a zoomed canvas — two-finger scroll moves it, or hold Space and drag. Thin bars along the bottom and right show which part of the canvas you are looking at.
Connect Claude Desktop in one click. Settings → Automation has a Connect button that adds Kapture to Claude Desktop for you and a Remove button to take it out. Its own Connectors menu cannot reach Kapture — that list is for remote services, and Kapture runs on your Mac. Guide.

Fixed

Settings buttons no longer stretch the full width of their rows, and longer labels fit on one line.
The MCP port moved into an Advanced section. It was the first field in the pane and opened focused, so a stray keystroke could move the server and quietly disconnect every client.
The inspector rail is a shade darker than the panel beside it, so the two no longer read as one slab.

1.5.9 — August 28, 2026

Recorded clips became first-class: each trimmed segment now has its own size, corners, placement and transitions, and titles can be driven by an AI agent.

New

Every trimmed segment has its own look. Size, corner radius and position now belong to the clip you selected, not to the whole project — ten cuts of one recording can each sit and scale differently.
Drag the recording on the canvas. Grab the plate and move it; hold ⇧ to keep it on one axis. The nine-point grid still works for exact placement.
Entrance and exit animations on recorded clips — fade or slide, with their own duration, applied per segment. Cut a recording into ten pieces and each one arrives and leaves the way you set it.
Titles are scriptable. An AI agent can add and restyle text on the video — the words, timing, nine-point placement with edge padding, type, colours, reveal and transitions. Guide.
A position grid for titles, matching the camera’s, with an edge padding dial.

Fixed

Deleting a title while its panel was open could quit the app.
X with nothing selected removes the clip before the playhead, not the one under it.
A short zoom chip can be clicked again — the resize grips covered narrow chips completely, so they could not be selected or deleted at all.
Dropping an image or video no longer rescales the timeline, and the new clip is scrolled into view instead of appearing to vanish.

1.5.8 — August 28, 2026

Zooms render clean over a cropped recording, and titles get the caption engine’s reveal animations.

New

Titles reveal like captions — typewriter, word-by-word, pop, slide and highlight, from a Reveal picker in the Text tab. The words pace themselves across the clip, so the length you trim a title to is its animation’s timing. Guide.

Fixed

Zooms no longer smear the background down the sides of the frame. A zoom over a cropped recording was drawn slightly narrower than the frame, and the gap filled with stretched wallpaper — most visible on wide crops.
A zoom can no longer run past the end of the recording, and captions and zooms stop drawing at the end of the timeline instead of a little past it when zoomed out.
Very short captions and zooms hide their label when there is no room for it, instead of spilling it over the edges of the chip.

1.5.7 — August 27, 2026

Titles grew up: multi-line, any plate colour, and the same motion the video overlays get.

New

Title text is a real multi-line editor — Return starts a new line, blank lines render as the gaps you typed, and Escape leaves the box.
The plate takes any colour, from a colour well right under its opacity slider.
Titles fade and move like clips: fade in/out toggles, plus the same entrance and exit animations video overlays have — slide up, down, left or right, with a duration dial for each end. Guide.

Fixed

Every inspector control now reaches the same right edge — colour wells and pickers sat a few points short of the toggles.

1.5.6 — August 27, 2026

The quality release: recordings capture every pixel your display has, exports keep them, and the colours stay true in every player.

New

The post-recording popover plays your camera too, positioned where the bubble sits in the finished video — no more guessing whether the camera made it into the take.
The crop window shows your recorded camera riding the crop box, so you can frame the crop around where the bubble will sit. Guide.

Fixed

Recordings on Retina and 4K displays now capture at the display’s full pixel resolution — they were silently limited to half. Text is sharply clearer, especially inside zooms.
Exports declare their colours (BT.709), so QuickTime, browsers and editors all show the same picture. Dark interfaces no longer crush to black or shift tone depending on which display rendered the export.
Recordings and exports get substantially higher bitrates — flat dark areas keep their tone instead of dissolving into blocky “gradients”.
Zoomed-in moments in exports are sharper: the renderer now reads enough source pixels for a 2× zoom.
Parking the playhead at the very end of the timeline shows the last frame instead of black.

1.5.5 — August 26, 2026

The launch-hardening release: two new ways to own your video’s first frame, faster timeline editing, and a deep round of correctness fixes.

New

Intros — Video tab → Add intro from file… puts an image or video at the very start, full frame, with everything else sliding right. An image intro defaults to a 0.5s poster — the frame platforms show before play — with its length dialled right there. Guide.
Openers — Use selection as opener (command palette) copies a chosen moment to the front of the timeline, captions and zooms riding along.
⌘A selects every clip, and dragging any one slides the whole arrangement. ⌘-click / ⇧-click toggle clips in and out of a selection, Finder-style.
Ripple durations — typing a new length on a clip that stands alone (an intro, a segment) moves the rest of the timeline to match.

Fixed

Exports now always play each clip’s own file on its own clock — appended takes’ cameras exported the wrong recording in some arrangements.
Zooms, masks, keystroke overlays and the primary transcript no longer fire over appended takes at meaningless moments.
“Mute mic for selection” lands on the footage you selected even after cuts — in preview and export alike.
A cropped overlay’s letterbox is clean background, not smeared edge pixels; its selection box and inspector numbers describe the picture you see.
Caption cues past the last clip no longer stretch the timeline.
Deleting a take no longer disturbs the original recording’s zooms and masks; ⌘D with a caption selected no longer mis-computes its offset.
Esc closes the crop window from any field; number fields select their value on focus.

1.5.4 — August 26, 2026

An overlay fits its box again — fill was acting as a second, invisible crop that shaved the edges the crop editor showed as kept.

1.5.3 — August 26, 2026

The spoken-word caption highlight lights one chip, not one per clock.

1.5.2 — August 25, 2026

A silent B-roll clip no longer swallows the narration’s caption cues.

1.5.1 — August 25, 2026

Ripple delete closes the gap for every lane, not just the one you deleted from.