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  "slug": "capptivo",
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  "use_label": "Screen recording for product demos",
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    "why": "Pitched as a Screen Studio and Cursorful alternative, it makes follow-cursor zoom demo videos without the \"$29/month\" the README says such software costs. While recording it stores a 60 Hz cursor and click track (cursor.json), and when you open a fresh recording it suggests zoom fragments from your clicks. Captions are generated on-device with whisper.cpp, and the UI ships in 11 languages including Korean (v1.0.3, released 2026-08-05).",
    "take": "You trade the subscription for some legwork: unsigned macOS builds and a whisper-cli you install yourself, in exchange for the same kind of demo video made locally.",
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      "Under MIT you can ship a customised in-house demo recorder with your own presets and backgrounds, or lift the Rust capture and encoding modules (recorder/, cursor/), which do not depend on Tauri, into your own recording app."
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      {
        "role": "Solo developers making product demos and tutorials",
        "situation": "click-based auto zoom cuts editing time"
      },
      {
        "role": "Teams needing a UI in Korean or one of 10 other languages",
        "situation": "captions stay on-device"
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        "role": "Rust/Tauri developers building a recorder",
        "situation": "capture → encoding pipeline to study"
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        "text": "1. Download an installer from GitHub Releases (macOS .dmg / Windows .msi or *-setup.exe / Linux .deb, .AppImage, .rpm)"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "# To run from source (needs Rust, Node, pnpm):"
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        "text": "pnpm install"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "pnpm tauri dev"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "# Open the recorder with ⌥⇧R (Alt+Shift+R on Windows/Linux) or the tray icon"
      }
    ],
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      "MIT — but the FFmpeg sidecars it downloads are GPL, so redistributing builds carries their own terms (see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md)",
      "macOS 13+, Windows 10 build 1903+, Linux with PipeWire 1.0+; macOS builds are currently unsigned (right-click → Open on first launch, then grant Screen Recording)",
      "Captions need a system whisper.cpp whisper-cli binary; area selection is not yet available on Linux"
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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