Features · 25 features · 4 chapters
Capture it. Make it clear. Find it again.
The home page is the 30-second version. This is the whole list: every feature in Kaipu today, grouped by the moment you’d reach for it.
One take. No setup.
Start from the menu bar or a shortcut, talk while you show it, stop. It’s already in your library.
Your screen, your voice, system audio and a floating camera bubble you can drag anywhere, in high quality.
A capture panel in the menu bar, and global shortcuts that work from any app. Rebind any of them.
Mute the mic, turn system audio off or hide the camera while you record, from the capture panel or a shortcut. The take keeps going.
Choose any input. Plug in a headset and the list updates on its own.
Trade file size for sharpness before you start, or set resolution and frame rate yourself.
When you stop, it’s in your library. A file missing its thumbnail or duration is repaired on its own.
Point at it. Literally.
Frame what you need, mark what matters, blur what shouldn’t be seen, and send it before the moment passes.
Arrows, boxes, a freehand pen and handwritten-style notes on top of any screenshot.
Drag a frame over what you need, or keep last time’s. Screen takes a whole display. Switch modes on the selection itself; Kaipu remembers the last one.
Press ⌘C on the selection and the shot lands on the clipboard, no editor in the way. With saving on, Capture files it in your library just as quietly. A small card then offers Annotate, Open in Library or Save to Library.
Blur a detail, then set the shot on a background with padding, a shadow and rounded corners so it looks finished.
A pre-filled title you can edit before saving, and rename later.
Copied to the clipboard as the editor opens, saved as a PNG, or exported as a sharp one-page PDF.
By default every capture is kept. Prefer to choose? Switch to saving only when you click Save.
Cut what’s extra. Zoom into what matters.
Just enough editing to make it clear. Every change can be undone, and your original is never touched.
The editor suggests a zoom wherever you clicked or paused, so the detail you point at is readable.
Remove the start, the end, and anything in between.
Silence a stretch of audio, or the whole recording. The picture keeps playing.
Hide an API key or a customer name for exactly as long as it’s on screen. Cover leaves no trace.
An edit is saved as a new item in your library. The recording you made is never changed.
Pick where the video is going and get a file that fits, or keep Balanced. Maximum quality is one setting away.
Share straight from the library. If that version is already exported, Kaipu reuses it instead of encoding again.
Keep working while it encodes. A “Ready to share” card appears when it’s done: drag the file straight into Slack, GitHub or Finder, under a friendly name.
The Editor opens on what you worked on last, with each video’s export state, and starts a new image straight from the clipboard.
Explain it once. It stays explained.
Next week, you won’t have to record it again. Everything you made is one search away.
Recordings and screenshots side by side, with previews, badges, filters and search.
Create tags, give each a color, and filter the library by tag.
Give anything a better name. An edited video is its own item, linked back to the recording it came from.
Your files
Every recording is an MP4 and every screenshot a PNG, in ~/Movies/Kaipu Record. Open them with anything. Move them anywhere.
Private by design
No watermark. No screen in the analytics.
Record, capture, edit and export with no sign-up. Accounts exist only for the optional cloud.
An optional “Made with Kaipu” badge exists, and it’s off by default.
Usage analytics never record your screen or your clicks in the app.
Both themes are first-class, and the whole app is in English and Spanish.
macOS 13 or later · Windows 10 or later, 64-bit (beta)
The Windows beta is not code-signed yet. If SmartScreen stops it, choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”.
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