Clipio turns a plain screen capture into something that looks edited —
auto-zoom that follows your clicks, cursor motion with real physics,
annotations you draw while recording. No editor required.
The feature everyone notices first. Clipio watches your clicks and dwell time, then eases in on whatever you're actually pointing at — and eases back out when you move on. Scale, duration and sensitivity are yours to tune.
A raw mouse path is jittery and it makes a tutorial look amateur. Clipio runs your cursor through a critically-damped spring, so it glides, leans into turns and bounces on click — the difference between “screen capture” and “motion design”.
Spring smoothing with adjustable damping
Click bounce, ripple and motion blur
Cursor skins — dot, ring or the real pointer
Size and sway independent of your OS setting
Nothing else on Windows does this
Draw while you record
Ten annotation tools that work on the live screen, mid-recording — not just on a screenshot afterwards. Circle the button as you say “click here”, blur the invoice before it's ever written to disk, and keep every mark editable in the timeline later.
Arrow, box, ellipse, line, text, pencil
Numbered steps that count themselves
Highlighter, spotlight and blur redaction
Every stroke stays editable after you stop
Screen recording
Full screen, a single window or any region you drag. Recording starts in under a second and keeps mic and system audio on separate tracks, so you can still rebalance them at export time instead of re-recording.
Mic and system audio, 0–200% each, independently mutable
Webcam bubble — position, size, shape, mirror
Native Camera Mode for capture cards and DSLRs
Keystroke overlay for shortcut-heavy demos
Pause, resume and hotkeys that work from any app
Screenshots & Pin
Grab an area, a window or the whole display, and the shot lands in a quick card instead of interrupting you. Copy it and carry on, or pin it as a floating, click-through reference that stays above every other window.
Area, window and full-screen capture with a magnifier
Quick cards stack up instead of replacing each other
Sensitive-info auto-blur finds and redacts on-screen text
Scrolling capture
Need the whole page, not the part that fits? Start the capture and scroll — or let Auto Scroll do it — and Clipio stitches the frames into one tall, seamless image. It matches on row signatures, so it works in apps that have no idea it exists.
Manual scroll or hands-free Auto Scroll
Works in any scrollable window, not just browsers
Cursor is skipped so it never lands in the seam
Runs on-device
Captions & auto-trim
Speech-to-text runs locally after a one-time model download — your audio never leaves the machine. The same voice-activity pass finds the silences where you were reading your notes, and offers to cut them.
Offline transcription, editable caption list
Style, position and burn captions in on export
Idle-time auto-trim from mouse and audio silence
Background & export
Drop the recording onto a gradient, a solid, a wallpaper or your own image, then dial in padding, corner radius and shadow until it looks like it came out of a design tool. Export is FFmpeg underneath, so it's fast and the file plays everywhere.
MP4 at 720p, 1080p or 2K — plus palette-optimized GIF
Split and cut mid-clip, not just trim the ends
Self-timer
Delay the capture so you can open the menu you actually wanted to show.
Multi-monitor
Pick any display, including mixed-DPI setups, and capture it at native scale.
Text recognition
Pull selectable text out of any screenshot with on-device OCR.
Effect packs
Drop a folder of cursor skins or wallpapers in and Clipio picks it up.
Recordings library
Every take kept with a thumbnail, reopenable with its effects intact.
Fast by design
Hardware capture and an FFmpeg export path — no browser sandbox in the way.
Feedback
Early users, mid-workflow. Here's what they're saying.
★★★★★4.9from early testers
SA
Sadia A.Instructional designer
“The zoom is the whole thing. My course videos used to need an hour in Premiere just to make the UI readable. Now they don't need Premiere at all.”
JM
Jonas M.Support lead
“Drawing on the screen mid-recording sounds like a small thing until you've recorded 40 bug repros. It cut my re-takes to about zero.”
TR
Tariq R.Indie developer
“Offline was the deciding factor. I record internal tooling all day and nothing I capture is allowed to touch someone else's server.”
Questions, answered
Is Clipio really free?
Yes. The current release is free and unrestricted — no watermark, no time limit, no account. A paid tier is planned much later for team-oriented features; everything described on this page stays in the free app.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. Recording, editing, captions, OCR and export all run on your machine. There is no cloud upload path in the app at all — which is also why there's no link-sharing feature.
What do I need to run it?
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI setups are supported. Captions need a one-time model download the first time you enable them.
Is there a Mac version?
Not today. Clipio is built for Windows first, which is where the good recording tools have been thinnest on the ground.
Can I still edit after I stop recording?
Yes. Zoom keyframes, cursor settings, annotations, captions and background styling all stay editable on the timeline, and you can reopen an old recording from the library with its effects intact.
Make your next recording look edited.
Free, offline, and about 60 seconds from download to your first zoom.
