Kamo 0.1: the first take

Kamo 0.1.0 is out for Windows 10 and 11. It's the first public release of an idea we've been chasing for a while: a screen recorder that does the editing while you record.

You hit Record, use your app as usual, and stop. Every click is already a smooth zoom, the cursor glides instead of jittering, and the whole thing sits on a wallpaper with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow. Export it as landscape, square and vertical at once, and you're done.

What's in 0.1

Record. The whole screen, one window or an area you draw. Microphone, computer sound and camera, each one optional, each on its own track. 30 or 60 fps. A small floating bar to pause and stop, plus Ctrl+Shift+2 to stop from anywhere. If Kamo or Windows crashes mid-take, the recording (audio and camera included) can be recovered.

Edit. Automatic spring zooms on every left click, laid out as blocks on a timeline you can drag, stretch, rescale, delete or add. Anything you touch is yours: regenerating zooms never overwrites it. A redrawn cursor you can make bigger or hide. A webcam bubble in any corner (or its own card under the screen in vertical), which shrinks while the camera zooms. Eight wallpapers or your own image. Trim the start and the end. Undo everything.

Export. MP4 in 1080p or 4K at 30 or 60 fps, hardware-encoded where your PC allows it. GIF up to 1280 px with a size estimate before you export. Landscape, square and vertical from the same timeline, in one go. No watermark, no time limit.

Organize. Local playlists on Home.

Connect. A read-only, local MCP server so Claude Code and other AI agents can search your recordings and read the clicks and screenshots.

Everywhere. Five languages in the app (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese), light and dark themes, a welcome tour.

What isn't there yet

We'd rather tell you now than have you find out:

• Windows only. The Mac app builds and passes its tests, but still needs testing on real Macs and Apple signing. The Chrome extension is close behind.
• The installer isn't signed, so Windows SmartScreen warns the first time. Choose More info → Run anyway.
• Captions can't be made yet. The editor, the 12 caption styles and the .srt export are in the app, but the transcription pack they need isn't published yet.
• The MCP server isn't on npm yet, so connecting an agent means building it from the source for now.
• After you stop, Kamo goes back to Home instead of opening the editor. The new recording is first in the list, one click away. (The message still says the editor arrives in the next version; it's already there.)
• Translations were drafted with AI help. If you're a native speaker, we'd love a review.

Every one of these is on the open roadmap, where you can vote for what we should do first.

Why it's free

Recording, editing and exporting all happen on your computer and cost us nothing to run, so the app is free, complete and open source under the MIT license. The only paid thing will be the optional Kamo Cloud, later, because storing and streaming video costs money.

Try it

Download Kamo for Windows, record something you'd normally send as a messy screen capture, and tell us how it went. Bug reports and ideas are very welcome.