Spotlit
v0.1.1Oct 21, 2026
A screen recorder with cursor spotlight, auto-zoom and live captions.
Record your screen with first-class cursor and keystroke effects, smooth auto-zoom and fully local live captions.
Spotlit is a screen recorder for tutorials and demos. It highlights where you click, shows the keys you press, zooms in on the action automatically and can caption what you say, all on your own machine.
It is free software with no telemetry and no network use. Built with Qt 6/QML and libobs, it records through OBS's capture and encoder stack.
Downloads
Release v0.1.1
Older versions are on the release page.
Features
Cursor effects
Spotlight and click highlights so viewers always know where to look.
Keystroke overlays
Show shortcuts and typed keys on screen while you record.
Auto-zoom
Smoothly zooms into the action instead of making you edit it in afterwards.
Local live captions
Optional whisper.cpp captions generated on your computer, with a one-click model download.
Real recording stack
Scenes, sources, audio meters and x264, NVENC or QSV encoding through libobs.
No telemetry
Free software (GPL-2.0-or-later). Nothing leaves your machine.
Screenshots
Good to know
- Linux is the most tested platform; Windows was built and partly tested on one machine; macOS has not been built or run yet.
- Installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows may warn about an unknown publisher.
