cap-v0.6.1
CapSoftware/Capcap-v0.6.1Oct 20, 2026by github-actions[bot]
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AI Summary
Cap Desktop 0.6.1 is a major overhaul that replaces the previous desktop app with a high-performance native application, focusing on speed, battery life, and recording reliability while automatically carrying over user data.
Key Highlights
- Native Cap app replaces the previous desktop version for better performance and battery life.
- Native signed updates ensure background installation without interrupting recordings.
- Improved recording reliability features frame drop reporting and automatic footage recovery.
- Smoother editor with cached waveforms and reduced CPU usage.
New Features
- Native Cap for everyone
- Native signed updates
- New welcome and permissions flow
- Scrub previews
- Smoother editor
- Reduce Motion support
- CLI installation
- Recording reliability fixes
- A/V sync improvements
- Disk usage optimization
- Exports improvements
- Project repair
- Permissions detection
- Sign-in improvements
- Stability fixes
- Linux AppImage support
- Windows recording pacing
- Battery optimization
- Lighter recording
- Faster exports
- Faster screenshot/picker
Full Release Notes
Cap Desktop 0.6.1 makes the native app the only Cap, rebuilt for speed, battery life and reliable recordings.
## Features
- **Native Cap for everyone** - The fast native app replaces the previous desktop app; your recordings, settings and shortcuts carry over automatically.
- **Native signed updates** - Updates download in the background and are verified before install; prompts never interrupt a recording or export.
- **New welcome and permissions flow** - A redesigned first-run experience that guides you through screen, camera and microphone access.
- **Scrub previews** - The preview keeps updating while you drag the playhead, including fast reverse scrubs.
- **Smoother editor** - Hover, timeline and long clip lists stay responsive; waveforms are cached instead of redrawn every frame.
- **Reduce Motion** - Animations follow the macOS Reduce Motion setting.
- **CLI** - Install the `cap` command line tool from Settings → CLI or `cap desktop install-cli`.
## Fixes
- **Recording reliability** - Track start times are saved as you record, footage is recovered after a muxer restart, and frame drops are reported instead of lost silently.
- **A/V sync** - Microphone, system audio, camera and screen stay aligned through pauses, slow devices and clock drift; Instant recordings start their audio and video together.
- **Disk usage** - Studio recordings no longer keep a duplicate copy of their media after stopping.
- **Exports** - Exports keep every frame in order when decoding is slow, use BT.709 colour, and refuse empty timelines instead of writing empty files.
- **Projects** - Damaged timelines, clips that run past their recording, and legacy captions and closing titles are repaired on open.
- **Permissions** - Screen recording, accessibility, camera and microphone grants are detected reliably, including while their Privacy pane is open.
- **Sign-in** - Sign-in callbacks have deadlines, and closing the prompt only cancels that sign-in.
- **Stability** - Fixed a Touch Bar crash and hardened capture against unexpected pixel formats and mid-stream audio changes.
- **Linux** - The Settings CLI install now works with the AppImage.
- **Windows** - Recording pacing keeps the last frame through pauses and stalls.
## Performance
- **Battery** - Idle windows stop redrawing when nothing changes: the main window and paused editor idle at about 0.02% CPU, down from about 0.9%.
- **Lighter recording** - Cursor capture no longer re-encodes the cursor image dozens of times a second.
- **Faster exports** - Export audio uses AudioToolbox on macOS; ProRes threads are sized to your Mac's memory so 8 GB Macs don't swap on 4K.
- **Windows** - Faster Media Foundation decoding and readback for playback and exports.
- **Screenshots and pickers** - Faster screenshot export and picker thumbnails.
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