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Kap

An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

From wulkano·Updated June 12, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Kap** is An open-source screen recorder built with web technology The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2016. It has gained significant community traction with 19,250 stars and 883 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: aperture, app, capture, communication, electron.

Latest release: v3.6.0
October 27, 2022View Changelog →
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Get Kap

Download the latest release:

Or install with Homebrew-Cask:

sh
brew install --cask kap

How To Use Kap

Click the menu bar icon to bring up the screen recorder. After selecting what portion of the screen you'd like to record, hit the record button to start recording. Click the menu bar icon again to stop the recording.

Tip: While recording, Option-click the menu bar icon to pause or right-click for more options.

Contribute

Read the contribution guide.

Plugins

For more info on how to create plugins, read the plugins docs.

Dev builds

Download main or builds for any other branch using: https://kap-artifacts.now.sh/<branch>. Note that these builds are unsupported and may have issues.

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Thanks

  • ▲ Vercel for fast deployments served from the edge, hosting our website, downloads, and updates.
  • ● CircleCI for supporting the open source community and making our builds fast and reliable.
  • △ Sentry for letting us know when Kap isn't behaving and helping us eradicate said behaviour.
  • Our contributors who help maintain Kap and make screen recording and sharing easy.

Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from wulkano/Kap via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/13/2026