# CapSoftware/Cap

> Open source Loom alternative for screen recording with instant share links, comments, transcripts, and self-hosting. Suits teams that want to keep recordings in their own S3 or on their own server.

- Magnitude: 2.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 24,280 total · +41 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:11–23:07 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Rust · Created: 2023-11-17 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/CapSoftware/Cap · Homepage: https://cap.so · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/CapSoftware/Cap

## Useful for

- Record a product demo in Studio Mode and export the finished video
- Deploy Cap Web via Docker Compose and connect your own S3 bucket
- Import existing Loom videos into the Cap library

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:11–23:07: 24239 → 24280 stars (+41). This is the change over that interval.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 57% of the previous week and a half.
- About 9 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,235
- Issues and pull requests: 3,634
- Watchers: 55
- Average over the last week: 65 per day
- Usual pace: 46 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: cap-v0.6.2 (2026-10-28)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 22, 28, 24, 31, 20, 21, 42, 18, 38, 43, 38, 29, 22, 19, 18, 34, 19, 73, 36, 45, 107, 79, 61, 123, 58, 84, 60, 50, 35, 41

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-03 1.6, 10-04 1.7, 10-05 2.0, 10-06 2.1, 10-24 2.8, 10-25 3.8, 10-26 3.8, 10-27 3.6, 10-28 3.9, 10-29 3.3, 10-30 3.4, 10-31 3.0, 11-01 2.5, 11-02 2.4

## Similar by description

1. **siddharthvaddem/openscreen** — 1.2 · Breakout · Apps · TypeScript · +15 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:14–23:12 UTC
   Free open-source alternative to Screen Studio for screen recording and producing polished demo/walkthrough videos with auto-zoom, captions, and MP4/GIF export. The repo is archived; development continues at getopenscreen/openscreen.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/siddharthvaddem/openscreen.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.