I built a screen recorder that turns raw captures into finished video stories — no install, no backend

I built a screen recorder that turns raw captures into finished video stories — no install, no backend

Every product demo I recorded looked the same: a raw screen capture, no cursor highlights, no click effects, no way to show keyboard shortcuts. I would record, then spend time in an editor adding zoom, annotations, and subtitles. For a 2-minute demo.

So I built LivCapture — a browser-based screen recorder that combines cursor effects, click storytelling, keyboard shortcut badges, live zoom, webcam overlay, annotation, and Whisper-powered subtitles into a single recording. No install. No backend for the recording itself. Everything runs in the browser.

The problem

Most online screen recorders do one thing: capture your screen and hand you a WebM file. That is it. The result: