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    CapSoftware/Cap

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    Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.

    web
    frontend
    app
    cap
    coss
    loom
    mac
    Rust
    NOASSERTION
    24.7K stars
    2.3K forks
    55 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #18 among Web repositories ranked this week, and #18 over the last 30 days; #101 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 62%).

    This week's +438 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +326 per week.

    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 160 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #10 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 2, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Cap is an open source alternative to Loom for creating, editing, and sharing screen recordings and video messages quickly.
    • Built with TypeScript, React (Next.js), Rust (Tauri), SolidJS, Drizzle ORM, and MySQL, supporting both desktop and web apps.
    • Strengths include self-hosting options, cross-platform support (macOS and Windows), and a modern monorepo architecture; limited to MySQL officially.
    • Organizations can deploy Cap Web via Docker or Railway for private video messaging infrastructure, integrating with Cap Desktop for seamless use.
    • Ideal for teams needing secure, customizable video messaging and screen recording tools with open source flexibility and self-hosting capabilities.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Other

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    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. It's a video messaging tool that allows you to record, edit and share videos in seconds.

    Cap Web is available to self-host using Docker or Railway, see our self-hosting docs to learn more. You can also use the button below to deploy Cap Web to Railway:

    Cap Desktop can connect to your self-hosted Cap Web instance regardless of if you build it yourself or download from our website.

    We use a combination of Rust, React (Next.js), TypeScript, Tauri, Drizzle (ORM), MySQL, TailwindCSS throughout this Turborepo powered monorepo.

    A note about database: The codebase is currently designed to work with MySQL only. MariaDB or other compatible databases might partially work but are not officially supported.

    Excerpt from the CapSoftware/Cap README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Sep 4: +80Sep 5: +40Sep 6: +115Sep 7: +81Sep 8: +53Sep 9: +35Sep 10: +48Sep 11: +56Sep 12: +31Sep 13: +56Sep 14: +36Sep 15: +14Sep 16: +89Sep 17: +73Sep 18: +14Sep 19: +27Sep 20: +108Sep 21: +38Sep 22: +36Sep 23: +30Sep 24: +98Sep 25: +43Sep 26: +36Sep 27: +27Sep 28: +41Oct 2: +12Oct 3: +7Oct 4: +27Oct 5: +6Oct 26: +71Oct 27: +67Oct 28: +113Oct 29: +64Oct 30: +71Oct 31: +57Nov 1: +62Nov 2: +34Nov 3: +42Nov 4: +40Nov 9: +73

    +3,675 stars over 82 days across 47 snapshot days; best day +115 on Sep 6.

    Forks

    2.3K+499

    Open issues

    425+111

    Compared with peers in Web

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