Cap v0.6 Is Here
By Steven Van ·
Cap v0.6 brings a redesigned editor, 3D scenes, animated text, moving backgrounds, Studio Sound, camera cutouts, faster exports, and a preview of a native GPUI app.
Cap, the open source screen recording and sharing app, has released v0.6, which the team calls its biggest release so far and the one that makes Cap feel like a real video editor rather than just a screen recorder.
The editor has been rebuilt from the timeline up with a new crop tool, inspector, dedicated text and 3D panels, a track picker, and an export screen that shows measured file size and export time before you commit. You can also record straight into a project you already have open, and the timeline adds ruler scrubbing, a minimap, snapping cuts, and multi-select zooms. Cap v0.6 is available at cap.so/download, and existing installs update on their own.
- 3D scenes: every recording gets a 3D track with automatic camera shots, perspective, easing, and focus blur, or build your own shots with orbit controls.
- Animated text and full-screen cards using any installed font, with presets, enter and exit animations, and cards that pause the recording underneath.
- Moving animated gradient backgrounds, separate color correction for screen and camera, device and browser frames, cursor effects, and style and image tracks.
- Studio Sound removes microphone background noise with Light, Balanced, or Strong isolation, and camera cutouts remove the camera background entirely on macOS.
- A sturdier recorder with recording recovery, low storage warnings, device reconnection, and Linux DEB, RPM, AppImage, and Arch packages.
- A first look at a new native app written in Rust on GPUI, available as an optional preview under Settings > Experimental, with 17.5% CPU and 440 MiB memory in playback versus 76.6% and 3,724 MiB in the classic app.
Full details are in the announcement.
