01 Capture
Capture Clip & Capture Video
Region, window or full screen. Stitch a scrolling region, or record your clicks as an editable Step by Step guide. Capture from a hotkey or the tray, with a delay if you need one.
Windows · Open source · Beta 3
Clip anything.
Design everything.
Image and video capturing for the everyday user with feature-rich design tools for power users.
For Windows 10/11 · MSI installer (64-bit) · 67 MB
- Open source · Apache-2.0
- Runs on your PC
- No account · No telemetry
- Built in Rust
New name, same app. ClipDesigner is the new name for ClipCraft. Beta 3 still installs and appears as ClipCraft.
01 / The toolkit
Seven workspaces.
One studio.
Capture, annotate, edit, narrate and review in one window. Every object stays editable until you export, so the guide you made last month is still a starting point, not a flattened picture.
02 Image guides
Point out what matters
Arrows, callouts, Icons, numbered Steps and Penlighter, all from presets. Focus and Magnify draw the eye. Multipage layouts with Page Setup, headers, footers, bleed and crop marks.
03 Video editor
Screen video with context
Tracks for video, pictures, narration and annotations. Zooms that follow the recorded cursor, keyframes, webcam picture-in-picture, and GIF Studio for short loops.
04 Privacy review
Review before you share
Find Sensitive Info reads images and video on your PC. Redactions follow text as it moves or scrolls, and Export video lists every one that still needs your review.
05 Narration & audio
Narration that sounds finished
Record takes, then shape them with an ordered chain of EQ, compression, clarity, de-essing, leveling and limiting. Analyze Voice suggests settings; the original is kept.
06 Library
Every capture, findable
Search everything you've captured. Sort it into folders, tag it, pin favorites, and filter by type, app, website or date.
07 Help
Answers where you're working
Illustrated, searchable articles cover every tool. Hover any control for a tip, or press F1 to open its article. Preferences hold shortcuts, capture settings and the toolbar.
02 / Who it's for
Built for power users.
Easy on day one.
Most power users start with a quick screenshot. It's the same app and the same project files, so the depth is there when you need it.
Power users
- Who they are
- Trainers, instructional designers, documentation teams, product marketers and tutorial creators.
- How they work
- ClipDesigner stays open for hours, and they produce a series of material, not one-offs.
- What they make
- A 40-page onboarding manual with sections, headers, footers and page numbers
- Product tutorials with webcam, cursor-following zooms and animated callouts
- Clean narration with EQ, compression and de-essing
- GIF loops for release notes and social posts
- Videos recorded on live systems, with every tracked redaction reviewed
- Where it ends up
- Training courses, help centers, video channels, release notes and printed manuals.
Everyday explainers
- Who they are
- Coordinators, analysts, support staff and team leads, or whoever on the team gets asked "how do I…?"
- How they work
- A few times a week, a few minutes at a time. Each capture is a one-off answer.
- What they make
- Point out a button for a colleague: capture, add an arrow, paste into chat
- Turn "how do I submit an expense?" into a six-step PDF guide
- Hide a customer name before sending a screenshot
- A 90-second narrated walkthrough of where a setting lives
- Find last Tuesday's capture in the Library
- Where it ends up
- Chat messages, email, support tickets and wiki pages.
03 / Principles
The rules every
feature follows.
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Yours, locally
Captures, projects and your Library stay on your PC. There's no ClipDesigner account to create.
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No telemetry
The app doesn't report what you do, and there's no background updater. You decide when to download a new version.
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Editable to the end
Crops, filters, perspective and redactions never silently flatten. Drags and sliders preview live, with one Undo per change.
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Privacy you can review
Detection suggests and you decide. Exported redactions remove what they cover. Detection can miss things, so ClipDesigner shows you what still needs a look.
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Native, built in Rust
A real Windows app with its own rendering engine, so the preview you edit matches the file you export.
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Open source
Apache-2.0, with every line on GitHub. Each release ships with checksums, an SBOM and its source archive.
04 / Get started
Download the beta.
Version 1.0.0-beta.3 for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). Free, with no account and no subscription.
Recommended
MSI installer
Installs for your Windows account only, with a Start menu shortcut and project file associations.
No install
Portable ZIP
Extract every file, then run ClipCraft.exe. Nothing is installed.
Before you install
- This beta is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn before it runs.
- Old development project formats aren't supported. Back up important work before updating.
- Sensitive-info detection assists your review and can't guarantee full coverage. Check the whole export before sharing.
- PDF text is exported as outlines, not searchable text. There's no automatic updater.
Read the full beta notes and the security and data model.
Open source · Free
Shape what comes next.
Report a bug, suggest a feature or follow development on GitHub.