Three capture tools, each with a real editor behind it. Auto zoom that follows your clicks, annotation you can draw mid-recording, sensitive text blurred before you ever hit share.
Everything in one window
Most tools give you a capture and a Save dialog. Clipio opens the thing you captured in an editor built for it — different panels for a still, a recording and a loop.
Drag a region with a live pixel readout, pick a window, or start scrolling and let Clipio stitch a whole page into one tall image. The shot lands in a quick card that stacks instead of interrupting you.
Screenshot editor
Full screen, one window or a dragged region. Mic and system audio stay on separate tracks, the webcam sits in a bubble you can reshape, and you can draw on the live screen while the recording runs.
Video editor
Record GIF sits right next to Record on the crop, window and display pickers. You get a trim screen instead of a save dialog, and the export runs a palette pass so the file stays small without turning to mush.
GIF editor
None of this needs a second app, a render queue or an account. It is all in the window you just recorded in.
Clipio watches your clicks and where the cursor lingers, then eases in on what you are actually pointing at and eases back out when you move on. Every keyframe stays draggable, so an automatic zoom is a starting point, not a verdict.
Drop a Tracking layer on the timeline and the frame follows your pointer for as long as that layer runs — a slow pan across a wide app instead of a hard cut. The cursor itself runs through a critically-damped spring, so it glides and bounces on click rather than jittering.
Ten tools that work on the live screen mid-recording, not only on a still afterwards. Circle the button as you say “click here” — every stroke stays editable once you stop.
On-device OCR reads the capture the moment it lands and pixelates what should not be in a screenshot — e-mail addresses, API keys, card numbers, password fields. It runs before you look at the shot, so the redaction is not something you can forget to do. Nothing is uploaded to find it.
Hit Share on a quick card or a thumbnail and Clipio uploads to a “Clipio Shared” folder in your Drive, sets it to anyone-with-the-link, and copies that link to your clipboard. Clipio never hosts your files, and it can only ever see the ones it created.
How the permissions workOne app, built from one codebase, capturing natively on each platform — DXGI on Windows, AVFoundation on the Mac. The editor, the effects and the exports are identical either side.
A full-screen recording of a dense app is unreadable at the size people actually watch it. Clipio eases in on the region you are working in and eases back out when you move on, so the viewer is always looking at the right part of the screen — without you cutting a single keyframe by hand.
Annotation on a screenshot is table stakes. Clipio puts the same ten tools on the live screen while a recording is running — so you circle the button in the same second you say “click here”, instead of scrubbing back to find the moment later.
A raw mouse path is jittery, and jitter is what makes a tutorial look like a screen capture. Clipio runs the cursor through a critically-damped spring so it glides, leans into turns and bounces on click — and pairs it with zoom and tracking that ease rather than cut.
Drop the recording onto a gradient, a solid or your own image, then dial in padding, corner radius and aspect ratio until it looks like it came out of a design tool. Captions transcribe on-device after a one-time model download, and export is FFmpeg underneath — fast, and the file plays everywhere.
The small things you only notice when they are missing.
Delay the capture so you can open the menu you actually wanted to show.
Any display, including mixed-DPI setups, captured at native scale.
Pull selectable text out of any screenshot with on-device OCR.
Manual or hands-free, stitched into one tall image — in any scrollable window.
Drop in a folder of cursor skins or wallpapers and Clipio picks it up.
Every take kept with a thumbnail, reopenable with its effects intact.
A native capture path and an FFmpeg export — no browser sandbox in the way.
Closing the window leaves it running, so a capture is always one hotkey away.
Mid-workflow, unprompted.
“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.”
“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.”
“The auto-blur caught an API key in a screenshot I was two seconds from posting. That alone paid for the switch.”
Yes — the early-access release is free and unrestricted. No watermark, no time limit. You will be asked to create a free account after a few exports, which is how we keep in touch with early users; paid tiers are a much later problem.
Only when you press Share. Recording, editing, OCR, sensitive-info detection, captions and export all run on your machine. The one network path in the app is the Google Drive share, and it uploads a single file that you explicitly chose.
Only the files it creates. The connection asks for the drive.file scope, which means Clipio can see and manage its own uploads in the “Clipio Shared” folder and is blind to the rest of your Drive. Disconnect at any time from Settings → Integrations.
Yes — the same app, from the same codebase, capturing through AVFoundation instead of the Windows path. It is newer than the Windows build, so it ships marked beta while we work through real-hardware reports.
Everything stays editable. Zoom keyframes, tracking layers, cursor settings, annotations, captions and background styling all live on the timeline, and an old recording reopens from the library with its effects intact.
Windows 10 or 11 64-bit, or a recent macOS on Apple silicon or Intel. Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI setups are supported. Captions need a one-time model download the first time you turn them on.
Free during early access. About sixty seconds from download to your first auto zoom.
New features and releases. Nothing else.
