Record. Export. Ship.
Record your screen, polish it with auto-zoom and keystroke overlays, then export to MP4 at 40+ FPS — GPU-accelerated and fully open source.
Free & open source · Windows 10/11 · Linux & macOS coming soon
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Built for fast demos and tutorials — record, edit, and export at full speed, entirely on your own machine.
Hardware-accelerated export
Frames go straight to your GPU's video encoder — NVENC, QSV, or AMF, with an x264 fallback. Exports hit 40+ FPS on 1080p instead of crawling through a software encoder.
Auto-zoom on clicks
Cinder captures your click positions while recording, then generates smooth zoom-ins on every click in the editor — one click to apply across the whole take.
Keystroke overlay
Captures the keys you press and renders them as clean keycaps in the export (Ctrl + Shift + S style) — exactly what tutorials and shortcut demos need.
Smooth cursor
Catmull-Rom spline interpolation between cursor samples removes the jitter from raw mouse data, so cursor motion in the recording feels intentional.
Full editor
Trim, speed regions, wallpapers, rounded corners, padding, shadow, motion blur, blur regions, and annotations — all built in, no extra tools.
MP4 & GIF export
Export a polished MP4 or a size- and frame-rate-tuned GIF. Save and reopen your work anytime as a .cinder project file.
Runs on your machine
All recording and encoding happen locally. There's no account, no cloud, and no servers — your recordings never leave your device.
Open source, MIT
Free forever and fully open source. Read the code, open an issue, or fork it and build your own version.
Ready to ignite your workflow?
Download Cinder and start recording in under a minute. Free, open source, and running entirely on your own machine — no account needed.