Recorder · Windows · v1.0.1

A recorder built to stay out of your recording.

RecordFlow captures your screen, your microphone, and an optional camera overlay — and quietly hides its own window from the shot. No clutter in your video, no account, no headache.

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Screen + Mic + Camera 720p / 1080p · H.264 MP4 Windows 10 v1903+

I record things all the time — quick lessons, product demos, bug reports for a project I’m shipping. And every single time, the recorder was the problem.

Some app would flash its own UI into the capture. Some would stamp a giant watermark in the corner. Some demanded an account, a subscription, a cloud upload — for a forty-second clip I just wanted to keep on my own machine.

So I built the thing I wanted. RecordFlow does one job: it records your screen and your mic (and your camera, if you want), and then it gets out of the way. The app window is excluded from Windows screen capture, so even when it’s sitting open on your desktop while you record, it never shows up in the final MP4. You draw the region you want, hit start, and forget it’s there.

Recording should feel calm, private, and fast. That’s the whole pitch.

No watermark. No time limit. No account. The file lands in your Documents folder with a clean timestamp, and that’s it — it’s yours.

— Waqar, the one behind RecordFlow

The one rule

You won’t see RecordFlow in your recording.

That’s the whole point. The app window is excluded from the Windows Graphics Capture API, so even if it’s wide open on your desktop while you record, it stays invisible in the final MP4. The other tools show themselves. This one doesn’t.

Other recorders
RECORDER UIbaked into your shot
visible in the video
RecordFlow
RecordFlowexcluded from capture
stays out, even while open
What it does

Everything you need to capture a clip. Nothing you don’t.

Eight small things RecordFlow does carefully, so the rest of your recording workflow can stay boring.

Draw the exact region you want

Pick a whole display, or drag a rectangle and capture only those pixels. Down to the last one — nothing extra in frame.

Display / regionPer-pixel

Hidden from Windows capture

The RecordFlow window is excluded from Windows Graphics Capture, so it never bleeds into your own recording — even while it’s open.

WGC exclusionNo clutter

1080p · 720p · H.264 MP4

Record one display at 720p or 1080p, 30 fps, hardware-encoded to a single clean MP4.

30 fps5000 kbps

Camera in any corner

Add a webcam overlay — top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right — in small, medium, or large.

4 corners3 sizes

Microphone + volume

Capture your voice with a clean volume slider, so your narration sits where you want it in the final file.

48 kHz0–100%

Auto-saved, timestamped

Every recording lands in Documents/RecordFlow/Recordings with a clean recording_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.mp4 name. No “save as” dialogues.

Local filesTimestamped

Recording history

A short list of recent recordings lives right in the app. Open the file, or open the folder — one click, no hunting.

Recent listOpen in Explorer
How it fits your day

Three steps. That’s the whole loop.

No setup wizard, no profile, no project file. You sit down, you record, you move on.

  1. Pick

    Choose a display, or draw the exact rectangle you want to capture. Crosshairs, snap, done in a second.

  2. Record

    Start, pause, resume, stop. A live timer keeps you honest. Your mic and camera overlay come along for the ride.

  3. Done

    Your file lands in your Recordings folder with a clean timestamp. Open it in Explorer, share it, move on.

A day with RecordFlow

Built for the small recordings that fill a week.

I draw the region around my slides, turn on my mic, hit start. No floating toolbar in the video. Just the lesson.

— an educator recording a walkthrough

Screen on the left, my face in the bottom-right corner. One file, ready to send to a customer.

— a founder filming a product demo

Reproduce it once, hit stop, drop the MP4 in the ticket. The recording is already where I expect it.

— an engineer filing a bug
Under the hood

Built on Windows native APIs. Not a browser in a trench coat.

RecordFlow leans on the capture and encoding stack that ships with Windows, wrapped in a small Rust shell. Efficient, frame-accurate, and a tenth the size of an Electron app.

Windows Graphics Capture

Efficient, frame-accurate screen capture built into Windows 10+. That’s where the per-app exclusion comes from, too.

screen · region

Media Foundation

Hardware-accelerated H.264 video and AAC audio encoding straight to a single MP4. No transcoding pass.

H.264 · AAC · MP4

Tauri 2 + Rust

A small native shell, a Rust backend for capture and encode. The installer is a few megabytes, not a hundred.

native · small binary

React 19 + TypeScript

The little UI that gets out of your way. Tidy, typed, and just enough surface area to pick a region and hit start.

UI · typed
Before you install

System requirements

System

Operating system
Windows 10 v1903build 18362 or later
Architecture
x64
Display
1280 × 720or larger
Disk
500 MBplus room for recordings

Hardware

Memory
4 GB minimum8 GB recommended
Webcam
Optionalfor camera overlay
Microphone
Optionalfor voice recording
Graphics
DX11+ GPUfor hardware encoding
Get RecordFlow

Pick your installer. Both are free.

Version 1.0.1 for Windows x64. The same app, two installers — whichever your machine prefers.

Recommended

EXE installer

The straightforward setup. Double-click, follow the prompts, launch RecordFlow from the Start Menu.

RecordFlow_1.0.1_x64-setup.exeWindows x64 · Setup
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v1.0.1Windows x64Free
For enterprise

MSI installer

Same app, an MSI for scripted installs, group policy, or fleet deployment across machines.

RecordFlow_1.0.1_x64_en-US.msiWindows x64 · en-US
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v1.0.1Windows x64en-US

Direct download not working? Grab either installer from the GitHub releases page.

Good to know

Frequently asked

Yes — Windows 10 v1903 or newer. RecordFlow is built on the Windows Graphics Capture API, which is Windows-only. I wanted native, frame-accurate capture and capture-app exclusion, not a browser-encoder compromise, so Mac and Linux aren’t on the roadmap right now.

Under Documents/RecordFlow/Recordings, named like recording_20250705_1429.mp4. You can open the folder straight from the app’s history list, or open the file itself in one click.

No. Recordings are yours, in full quality, with no watermark and no time limit. The file is a standard H.264/AAC MP4 that plays in VLC, Windows Media Player, or anywhere else.

This release focuses on microphone capture with a volume slider. System-audio capture is on the roadmap — the spec is already drawn up for mixing mic and loopback audio with independent volume controls.

Yes — free, and open source on GitHub. You can grab the installer, or clone the repo and build it yourself with npm install and npm run tauri dev.

It’s opt-in behaviour built on the Windows Graphics Capture exclusion list. The app marks its own window so the capture API skips it — that’s why it never appears in your MP4, even while it’s open and showing a live timer.